Sometimes, launching on the wrong date can end a franchise
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With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
Just merge them all into a single studio, have it churn out a single Call of Duty every year and call it a day, lol.
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
The best shooter campaign since Half-Life 2 still hasn't been topped eight years later.
I agree with this. The time travel mechanics. The sense of scale. The relationship with your mech. The bosses all had personalities. It's a wonderful game.
Yeah it was good, but it only did the time travel bit in one level. Dishonered 2 did the same thing. Now how about a game where it's implemented throughout the gameplay? Singularity says Hello (and deserves so much more recognition).
Motorstorm Apocalypse also got hurt pretty bad by the psn outage. Such a good game, too
Titanfall 2 could have been easily avoided. Instead of launching between the 2 biggest FPS franchises, EA could have held the game until February or March. It was a really great, fun game. It deserved a lot better.
“I always scratch my head at this one. Gran Turismo 6 was launched on PlayStation 3…a month after the PlayStation 4 launched. By the time the PS4 launched, evidently most of its user base was more than ready to move on from its predecessor.“
So? Sony released God of War 2 on PS2 month’s after PS3 launched, that game still garnered success and nobody complained about that. Gran Turismo 6 still went on to sell over 5 million units. Not many other racers can even do that on their best entry.
Also do you really think 80 million people just dropped PS3 and instantly migrated over to PS4 day one? Many people to this day still game on PS3.
“However, I feel the Dishonored franchise would perform better in the first half of the year.”
Dishonored 1 released in October and it sold well. Releasing Prey in May didn’t help its sales success, so Dishonored 2 was going to perform the same commercially no matter when it released.
“Rise of the Tomb Raider is a great follow-up to a great reboot in the long-running franchise. The title got a bit more buzz when it was originally announced as an Xbox console exclusive for its first year. It felt like a great opportunity for the franchise to get some spotlight as an exclusive and for Xbox to gain a larger market share.”
Rise of the Tomb Raider was getting a lot of buzz before it became timed exclusive, which initially turned a lot of people off. Bad publicity isn’t always great publicity. Making the franchise times exclusive to a platform it didn’t perform its best on in the past can’t in any way be described as a “great opportunity.” It was more beneficial to Microsoft than the IP, and even then the game still sold vastly better when it got brought over to PS4, a platform that’s part of a brand Tomb Raider has always done best on.
“ you got to really start asking yourself what Microsoft or developer Playful was thinking when deciding its release date of Super Lucky’s Tale.”
It doesn’t matter when a console exclusive 3D platformer gets released on an Xbox system, it’s going to flop any time of the year.
Surprised Horizon: Zero Dawn isn't on this list.
shadow hearts. came out the same day with FFX i think