vivster said:
You say it, it's the new age. Every single AAA release is gonna get streamed a lot on launch day, it doesn't matter which. People who tune into the streams do it for the streamers, not for the games. They might as well be watching television, watching the streamer will do nothing significant to the sales of a AAA game. Everyone knows about the game and they know if they want to spend 60 bucks on it. A popular streamer screaming into a camera will do nothing about that. For AAA games review scores are much more important, as are mainstream news coverage, which is what reviews are. For indies it's the other way around. They don't need scores, they need publicity. MHW is a big release that has long been anticipated by a lot of dedicated fans. If it's streamed or not will not make a single little spike in their sales. |
5m shipped. I've no doubt the big publicity from streamers since the betas went live have greatly helped.
