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Mr Puggsly on 23 September 2014
Fusioncode said:
I don't think this was ever going to be a big mainstream hit. Especially being exclusive to Xbox which doesn't have an audience for this type of game. I'm guessing 1.5m lifetime but we'll see if it can prove me wrong.


I'm confused by this comment.

Games like this generally don't become mega hits. So 1.5 million would actually be impressive... espeically if Xbox doesn't have an audience for this type of game.

Infamous is considered popular for this style of game but even that has struggled to get past 2 million.

Also, the audience for this game is a core audience. The Xbox One has that.



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Fusioncode on 23 September 2014
Mr Puggsly said:
Fusioncode said:
I don't think this was ever going to be a big mainstream hit. Especially being exclusive to Xbox which doesn't have an audience for this type of game. I'm guessing 1.5m lifetime but we'll see if it can prove me wrong.


I'm confused by this comment.

Games like this generally don't become mega hits. So 1.5 million would actually be impressive... espeically if Xbox doesn't have an audience for this type of game.

Infamous is considered popular for this style of game but even that has struggled to get past 2 million.

Also, the audience for this game is a core audience. The Xbox One has that.

So what part of my comment are you disagreeing with? 



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ICStats on 23 September 2014

This game looked tempting, I was going to buy the Sunset Overdrive bundle, but then I got really turned off by the MS Tomb Raider exclusivity announced in Gamescom and I don't want to support them now.  I'll vote with my money and not buy into XB1 this year.



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Mr Puggsly on 23 September 2014
Fusioncode said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Fusioncode said:
I don't think this was ever going to be a big mainstream hit. Especially being exclusive to Xbox which doesn't have an audience for this type of game. I'm guessing 1.5m lifetime but we'll see if it can prove me wrong.


I'm confused by this comment.

Games like this generally don't become mega hits. So 1.5 million would actually be impressive... espeically if Xbox doesn't have an audience for this type of game.

Infamous is considered popular for this style of game but even that has struggled to get past 2 million.

Also, the audience for this game is a core audience. The Xbox One has that.

So what part of my comment are you disagreeing with? 

Well if Xbox doesn't have an audience for this game, I'm surprised you think it'll do 1.5 million. That tells me an audience does exist.

The user Aerys really believes this game has no audience on Xbox. He predicted it'll do about 300K outside of bundles.



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Fusioncode on 23 September 2014
Mr Puggsly said:
Fusioncode said:
Mr Puggsly said:


I'm confused by this comment.

Games like this generally don't become mega hits. So 1.5 million would actually be impressive... espeically if Xbox doesn't have an audience for this type of game.

Infamous is considered popular for this style of game but even that has struggled to get past 2 million.

Also, the audience for this game is a core audience. The Xbox One has that.

So what part of my comment are you disagreeing with? 

Well if Xbox doesn't have an audience for this game, I'm surprised you think it'll do 1.5 million. That tells me an audience does exist.

The user Aerys really believes this game has no audience on Xbox. He predicted it'll do about 300K outside of bundles.

1.5m  lifetime shouldn't be difficult for an exclusive to achieve early on in a console's lifecycle when there isn't much else to play. They're also going to heavily bundle the game which will help sales quite a bit. If there was an audience for the game and it recieves good reviews then I see no reason why it couldn't hit 3m+ lifetime. 



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NickK on 23 September 2014

Do we really have high expectations? Just a good chance getting the white x1 and getting this game as a freebie.



Namiirei on 23 September 2014

It will probably be a bad/so-so game.

I expect a 5 or 6 on gamekult.

And saleswise, well...it will probably be low, maybe one million sales lifetime ?



bananaking21 on 23 September 2014

i think it looks pretty good. 91 meta prediction!



AZWification on 23 September 2014

Sunset Overdrive is my most hyped X1 game so far. I hope it will be a very fun game.



                
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palitococo on 23 September 2014
bananaking21 said:
i think it looks pretty good. 91 meta prediction!


Wow that would be a great achievement, in fact anything above 85 could be really good.



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