Why Epic Games sold Gears of War to Microsoft

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S.T.A.G.E. on 30 March 2014

Carl2291 said:

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This is good for Microsoft but definitely shows their weakness where it matters in their first party. I really wonder what that new IP they were making was. Nevertheless, more Gears for me.

How does adding a multi-million selling franchise to your first party show any kind of weakness? lol

Halo - 10 Million selling franchise
Gears - 6 Million selling franchise
Forza - 4 Million selling franchise
Fable - 4 Million selling franchise
Kinect Whatever - Multi-Million selling franchises
Dance Central - Multi-Million selling franchise

Then you have the smaller side projects from other 1st party studios. When you add in whatever 3rd party "exclusives" they want to buy, theyre offering Xbox gamers a fairly big set of options when it comes to content you cant find on another console. We have no idea what new IP they are working on and we have no idea how theyre gonna evolve IP that they are already pushing out.

Gears wasnt their IP when it was hot. Lets hope it still is. I know it will be with me. I cant wait to play it and I have my Xbox One waiting right here.

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EspadaGrim on 30 March 2014

MARCUSDJACKSON said:
The franchise is now dead and will be lucky to cross the 2m mark.

lol you can't be serious

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MARCUSDJACKSON said:
The franchise is now dead and will be lucky to cross the 2m mark.

Dude...the franchise is far from dead. No one wants an unofficial Gears game that isn't made by the primary team.

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Because they run it into the ground with no worthwhile evolution between each release, the third games was selling on fumes and the 4th game just stalled.

Not the only series with this problem, too many series last gen that if you didn't play the last 1 or 2 iterations, you missed nothing.

Gears 3 is at 6 million. Gears Judgement can be attributed to a different studio not making the same level of quality as well as not being a heavily marketed holiday release but I do agree that many IPs from the big 3 dropped off in sales with their sequels. Guess that is the business as a gen ages.

I loved gears 3. Judgement to me, sucked, but as you said, that's due to the developer. I will pick up an x1 for the new gears if it resembles gears 1-3, I'll skip it if it resembles judgement in any way shape or form.