"Quantum Break is now the best-selling new Microsoft Studios IP this generation"
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BruceLeeRoy
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The PR is actually really smart.
They know the majority of people are not going to substantiate their claim but what it does do is get people on the fence or those that hadn't really heard of the game an incentive to check out "The Next Big Thing"
I'm all in favor of anything that gets more people to buy this game so I get a sequel
They know the majority of people are not going to substantiate their claim but what it does do is get people on the fence or those that hadn't really heard of the game an incentive to check out "The Next Big Thing"
I'm all in favor of anything that gets more people to buy this game so I get a sequel
SunBroDave
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Dire times at MS if Ryse is their benchmark for commercial success.
And MS, if you're really so proud of Quantum Break, how about you fix the PC version?
And MS, if you're really so proud of Quantum Break, how about you fix the PC version?
As noted by one of the replies, Zoo Tycoon is not a new IP for this generation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_Tycoon_(series)
Glorified G
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nvm.
There, now we are in total agreement.
SEGAvangelist
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Ryse sold pretty well from all the numbers we've seen. I'm not sure why that's a bad benchmark since we're talking about sales and not quality.
I still loved Ryse.
mejin
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Jesus....this is so sad, I can't even..
Wildarmsjecht
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Oof...those numbers.
I plan on picking this up eventually (my back log is crippling me)
I like TPS and I LOVED The Order. People have been saying this is alright so I'll give it a crack later this year.
I plan on picking this up eventually (my back log is crippling me)
I like TPS and I LOVED The Order. People have been saying this is alright so I'll give it a crack later this year.
What did he/she predict?
Bits N Pieces
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An Xbox 360 and One game made by Frontier Developments.
It's actually a wee bit better than it sounds.
CosmicQueso
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Great for Remedy and MS!
With these opening sales they've been able to recoup the costs of 5 minutes of one of the live action segments!
Well done indeed!
With these opening sales they've been able to recoup the costs of 5 minutes of one of the live action segments!
Well done indeed!
Im pretty sure its Driveclub or Bloodborne.
DC we already know passed 2 mi.
Bloodborne too.
BabyFaceKillah
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For what?
Nothing sad about that. The order sold pretty good in the first week. Bigger install base also. Compared to aw. Digital is way bigger nowadays. And qb had nice extra's for digital.
wapplew
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I mean first week. Which Sony new IP have best first week.
You are brutal
For the interest of Sales-GAF, either here or in some PAL sales thread.
Finland is a pretty expensive place.
Glorified G
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It's a "Microsoft Studios IP". Whether they actually own the IP like Halo or don't own it like Sunset Overdrive is up to the spin of their next PR release. Stay tuned.
SEGAvangelist
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The team looks to be pretty lean for a project this size, though.
Savage!
wapplew
Member
See how many missed opportunities Sony have missed on best selling PR.
Some Kinect game
You could always ignore the game and act as if it doesn't exist. Like Sony did with The Order.
Seriously though, while MS is definitely more creative with their PR, they are all basically the same when it comes to painting something in a better light that its reality. However, MS's fans seem to eat their PR far easier than other fans. Anecdotal of course, but that's the impression I usually get.
Why the laughing smiley? It's a good example, Sony (and others) usually ignore their failures, if they tried they could probably make up a good PR for TO 1886 (it did better than QB in the UK actually), yet they didn't, probably cause it didn't do so well.
Hibiki Kurosawa
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Well congrats, but that's not a lot of competition to become that.
Ghost Slayer
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According to a dev here it wasnt that big i believe. Live action was also cheaper then normal cutscenes. 130 people on the high point working on it. He said the budget was pretty good but nothing compared to other AAA games.
SEGAvangelist
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The Artisan
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good. from the looks of it the game is innovative, so it deserves it.
How is live action with real actors and stunts cheaper than in game cutscenes?
BruceLeeRoy
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That simply can't be possible.
Dont know. But that is what he said.
That's a very good point.
People seemingly have automatic assumptions that our game is super expensive due to live action and actors. We didnt need the actors for months at all, so we needed them for a lot less time than movies or tv series. Not as expensive as you'd think and even at it's height Remedy was only 130 people working on QB (that's everybody including HR etc), which isn't that much. We are pretty frugal in Finland and at Remedy. Sure, our game has a big budget, but far from the other AAA out there.
Actually animating, lighting, planning, rigging, etc etc 20 minute cut-scenes would in many ways have been more complicated and in some ways expensive. We dont have access to tons of awesome animators in Finland or in Scandinavia in general (there is no animation industry here, so there's very little animation being taught in schools). Things like this already shape your game and make us take decisions on what we can focus on in our games and what not. As always.
When The Order launched, the PS4 had an install base of <2m in the UK. For QB's launch, XB1's install base is >2m in the UK.
And Alan Wake launched against Red Dead Redemption.
Ghost Slayer
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Plus some of them are well known actors so the cost maybe big
Boom.
Depends on the cutscenes but creating several hours of AAA in-game cinematics could be horribly expensive.
I'd still wanna see the receipts on that though.