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THQ’s Danny Bilson has revealed that upcoming blaster Homefront has become the most pre-ordered title in the publishing powerhouse’s entire history.
Speaking during a chinwag with Eurogamer, Bilson said that the FPS has nabbed a whopping 200,000 pre-sales in the US alone, though noted the possibility of Kaos Studios shutting up shop and having staff relocate to Montreal still lingers in the air.
"I tell them [Kaos] the more successful a game is, the better the economics are for the franchise, and that will help to influence what we do," commented Bilson. "So we haven't made any decisions at the moment. That's the truth. We're going to look at how it goes. We don't want to relocate people just to relocate people.”
"A lot of it has to do with how successful it is and how strong that core team comes out on the other side," he explained. "I love those guys. I've worked very closely with them on this game for years. There's nothing disrespectful going on at all. We're trying to do what's best for everyone."
Despite this, David Votypka, general manager at Kaos, has taken a glass-half-full approach to joining club Montreal.
"With the opening of the THQ Montreal studio the goal has always been to find a way to utilise that studio in future Kaos projects," he told Develop.
"Seeing as New York is not the most inexpensive location to develop games, utilising Montreal one way or another is understandable,” he added. "We've submitted various shared development scenarios to THQ, each have different pros, cons, and different costs.”
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