Wman1996 on 16 March 2025
VersusEvil said:
It’s probably best to let the Life is Strange franchise retire at this point. Double Exposure is an exhausting game to play. |
They might've put out too many games as well in a time period.
LIS: 2015
BTS: 2017-2018
LIS2: 2018-2019
True Colors: All at once in 2021
Double Exposure: 2024-2025
5 games in around 10 years is oversaturated for most IPs. You have annual releases or biennial releases that do well but it's not the norm. 3 years is the largest gap to date between LIS releases, and the gaps are often smaller than that.
I've only played LIS and BTS. I want to play the other games but feel no urgency to do so in my backlog.
The franchise should probably retire or at least take a 5–7-year break.
Lifetime Sales Predictions
Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)
PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)
Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)
PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)
3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)
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