Eurogamer's Wesley Yin-Poole writes: Here's what's clear: big console game sales are down. Titanfall 2, Watch Dogs 2, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Dishonored 2 and more all failed to even match the sales of their predecessors at launch. People I've spoken to in the UK retail business are in panic mode. The PS4 has been a huge success. Xbox One is doing well. What's going on?
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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).
(My Personal Opinion )
1. Could it be gamers Tired of no full game, constantly downloading rest of it?
2. Or the sequel not as good as the Hype claim it is.
3. Or gamers tired of open world games?
I say All 3 ......
After reading that FFXV sold 5 Million units in a few days I can't take this article and its point very seriously.
Big games still sell millions, but not every big game can do it, do to people getting tired of some peticular game formulars.
I think the price of games has alot to do with it.
I would think its a lack of hype, not much of the games that have released this fall has had me excited. BF1 is the exceptionell for me, and its all because its set in a diffrent time. Im tired of Sci-fi, so the new cod and Titanfall doesnt really appeal. The style of watchdogs is to pubertal for me, it tries to hard. Mafia 3 just flew under the radar, and stayed there. And you have 2 new Slim modells, a pro and VR that are competing for the money.
would be interested to see how the sales were after black friday weekend. Releasing a game 2-3 weeks before the biggest sales event of the year cant help with initial sales. COD down from £70 for the legacy to £49, titanfall from £44 to £28, Tomb raider 20th £44 to £25 and thats just what I picked up.
May be gamers are just bieng more savvy, its already an expensive time of year but when people know that within a month they can essentially get 2 for 1 games with a little patience why wouldn't they.