BasilZero said:
Yooka Laylee proves the bolded wrong. In its first year, it sold 1 million copies across all platforms. Edit: Yooka Laylee is basically a clone of Banjo Kazooie. A lot of same developers who made Banjo Kazooie and Tooie were part of the development. MS is going to need to lower their expectations , they wont and because of that, they wont make a new entry. Remastering/porting a game is easier than creating a new one from scratch. If they dont want to work on it themselves internally, they could always sign off with a third party dev kinda like how SEGA did with Streets of Rage 4 with DotEmu and/or Bayonetta with Nintendo. |
YK is not a good example because it was dissapointing in so many ways the sales weren't on fire and the reception especially by gamers wasn't great (did not hate it myself tho) and it shows with releasing a DK inspired game later and now people are waiting for the YK-Replaylee version of the first YK game.
It is just a shame that Xbox released stuff as Hellblade II/Redfall/Shattered space(less than 0.80% has the first achievement in the DLC) that no one seem to care about. BK amibo sales seemed to be decent, BK in Smash was huge...