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Its sadder that PS4 gamers haven't bought an X1 in order to play Sunset Overdrive. They're the ones truly not giving the game a chance.
Yes. And avoiding to help the economy at the same time. We're practically terrorists. No, worse. Communists.Its sadder that PS4 gamers haven't bought an X1 in order to play Sunset Overdrive. They're the ones truly not giving the game a chance.
Can't say I'm surprised about SO. Looks like my prediction, sadly, is turning out to be accurate. I think it would have sold better on the PlayStation for the simple reason that Insomniac has a strong historic following on the PlayStation platform and hence, more fans, that would probably buy a diversified niche shooter/platformer. I don't think it would be a system seller, even on PS though. Probably similar to their past R&C games.
BRiT: I was actually considering it for a while; but my livingroom (hifi rack) real estate is limited, so I guess I'm in the majority of gamers that find one console just enough. It's easier owning multiple handhelds for the same purpose (gaming)... consoles (that use an additional HDMI port, add a controler, wires and a large console etc), not so much.
BRiT: I was actually considering it for a while; but my livingroom (hifi rack) real estate is limited, so I guess I'm in the majority of gamers that find one console just enough. It's easier owning multiple handhelds for the same purpose (gaming)... consoles (that use an additional HDMI port, add a controler, wires and a large console etc), not so much.
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Its sadder that PS4 gamers haven't bought an X1 in order to play Sunset Overdrive. They're the ones truly not giving the game a chance.
Sadly few people outside of rabid nintendo fans actually purchase whole other console for just one game.
More seriously however, I think only a game franchise as big as Halo will be big enough to have the potential to sway PS4 owners to go multi-console.
I'd promised myself that I'd stick with PS4 and my PC this gen, but after watching the early beta videos for Halo 5... well... i'm tempted.
I believe it was more the fact that MS allowed them to own the IP whereas Sony would have wanted to own it
This. If Sony wanted it, they wanted it too much. It's also likely true that other publishers wanted a controlling stake, so Insomniac went with someone who'd pay for the game but not want ownership as a result, which was MS. As a result, their market size was far smaller than it could have been.
Maybe Insomniac (from a business POV) just need to recognise the landscape more and their place in it? If you need to go cross-platform these days, and the only publishers that will let you do that want IP ownership, maybe that's the price of getting a publisher involved and Insomniac just need to accept that? If they don't want to do that, they'll have to find ways to make money that don't require significant outside investment, or get some funding from somewhere else.
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Was that their reasoning, they wanted to protect their IP? I can understand why you'd want to do that if you'd come up with an idea that was revolutionary or had some crazy innovation, but for a fairly-paint-by-numbers action game?? I dunno, doesn't seem like the best business decision to me. They could have more than doubled their sales if they were multiplatform, even it it meant losing their IP. Depends on whether Microsoft chalked up a high enough number to compensate. Free advertising might have helped.
I guess time will tell whether the sales were really great enough to justify a sequel. If they weren't that IP protection will seem even more frivolous.
As of the last day or two I have seen PS4 peeking back ahead of X1 on Amazon charts...it seems to have flipped back and forth a few times.
I think the monthly charts X1 should still be comfortably ahead.
It's possible people got wind of $329 X1 Black Friday deals and decided to hold off.
I think the monthly charts X1 should still be comfortably ahead.
It's possible people got wind of $329 X1 Black Friday deals and decided to hold off.
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I believe it was a function of the fact that they had been making games for a long time now and have produced many hits, but none have been IP's they as a studio actually own. So I believe their decision being driven by IP ownership was part of an overall intention to build their own studio IP portfolio. I can't blame them for that.
Supposedly the negotiations for this kind thing happened early on in development. At those early stages I'm sure even Insomniac were hoping that SO would be the next big thing. It was afterall their concept and they believed in it enough to shop it around to multiple Pubs, and not cave into the pressure and change the concept of the game to be more fitting to what pubs like EA/Activision would have been more eager to back and invest in.
For an independent dev house, I think Insomniac made the right call for securing their future. Maybe SO wasn't the right game, but that's immaterial. They need their own big AAA blockbuster IP so that they can be afforded a better negotiating position when looking to sign publishing deals with the existing crop of AAA console gaming pubs.
No worries this dude will buy that game, I am certain my kids and me will be entertainedIts sadder that PS4 gamers haven't bought an X1 in order to play Sunset Overdrive. They're the ones truly not giving the game a chance.
But I am drowning in games right now, destiny, wow expansion, farcry 4 and gta5 again. And still playing a few other games like gt6. And Forza Horizon 2 also needs my money... Argh
But they did not catch the publicly announced official BF bundles of the PS4?
Its sadder that PS4 gamers haven't bought an X1 in order to play Sunset Overdrive. They're the ones truly not giving the game a chance.
Nope. I'll wait a year or so before it materializes on the PC or PS4. Until then, my XB1 card doesn't get use until Gears of War becomes available.
If your a "rabbid" Nintendo fan, im pretty sure you buy Nintendo hardware for more than one game. Software to hardware ratios are typically pretty good on Nintendo's consoles. Sure, they are Nintendo's first party titles that account for the majority of the software sales, but then again, isn't it a handful of IP's that account for the majority of software sales on those platforms? You take away Assassins Creed, Batman, COD, Battlefield, Madden and Fifa, and your left with very few titles that the PlayStation and Xbox gamers buy.
Time will tell if Halo still carries the same weight it once did. At one time, it was king of the online shooter world. The world has changed in favor of the multi platform offerings, so its tough to know if it will sell a bunch of hardware, or simply sell a lot of software to the existing X1 userbase.
People like me (big Sony buyers) might have become dissappointed in Insomniac due to the crappy R&C games they have put out. Also, despite not having played SO so I am talking out of my ass, I think these kinds of games really need 60 fps to feel good. And Insomniac do not do 60 fps anymore...
Uh-oh. Microsoft better do something about this quickly. Cut the price another $50 to boost demand!
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