VGR: Earlier today it was reported the Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz sent a note investors projecting that The Bureau: XCOM Declassified would sell less than 250,000 units by years end. Creutz is basing this analysis off of internal estimations of pre-orders since E3 in June. We have learned from our public relation sources that Take-Two Interactive has also drastically cut the marketing budget of the game as well.
Take-Two head Strauss Zelnick has denied closing Rollerdrome developer Roll7 or Kerbal Space Program 2 studio Intercept Games.
That's hilarious because he did and said the same thing with 2K Marin who developed Bioshock 2
They've been closed since 2013 but not officially acknowledged
He just doesn't want the backlash so pretends there's no issue.
But he's still firm that physical games aren't going away.
Gamers have the power and they are the Ives who will decide if physical stays or not.. physical is here to stay, but good that a guy like this confirms
Fking word. Physical is the key. People would be surprised because the misconceptions out there but there's a sh ton of us that still prefer this route
One high end console has always been a benefit. The other is no longer a necessity.
Only competition there ever was, was when one launched a year to a year and a half early. Based on this generation, the other would have to launch 2 to 4 years early just to compete. Because buying a huge part of the industry, having a multiple game sleep mode, cheaper in price, smaller form factor, supposedly having better BC and a day one subscription service, has still resulted in another huge ass kicking.
Yay for physical Take Two.
I wouldn't really call it competing when a company is dead last in sales when compared to the rival company. I will always stick around for physical copies of games. Moment games go all digital is the day I bring the SNES and Genesis out of hibernation and just stick to retro.
Take-Two announced its financial results for Q3 of the fiscal year on top of an update to sales figures of Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and more.
So 2.47% of the global population have a copy of gta v no wonder they don't want to release vi there's still so many people who haven't brought v
Obvious sarcasm here
Ha ha, we should probably count that a lot of people have 2 or 3 copies by now, for different platforms.
To think that 5mil sold is considered a huge success for any game in general, and 10 is amazing. I cannot believe people are still buying this.
I keep saying that’s why the 7th generation was the most loved because of gta5 and Skyrim.
Well hopefully millions went to gta 6 singleplayer mode to make it extra epic but knowing rockstar nowadays there won't be a full support for singleplayer, mainly online will be the focus i bet but I hope atleast theres plenty to do in the open world and not just look good with little to nothing to do, after gta 6 ain no tellin when we will get another rockstar title even tho the mfs sucked in millions from red dead 2 as well I miss when we got more than 1 game a gen from them they always delivered, so many key staff members left not even just the well known names
It's just sad. This game hasn't gotten a fair chance since it was first announced and shown several years ago.
OhOh! not sounding good. Do they know something we don't about the game? It's been through development hell, but it seems to have come out a better game. Well I guess I may just wait for the reviews now1
I plan on buying at launch.
it doesn't help that gta5 is releasing next month most people would rather save their money,hell i cancelled my payday 2 and diablo 3 preorder for gta special edition.
right now im finishing some games in my backlog until gta is out.
Well, that might be a good thing. XCOM fans will know about it and will buy it. Millions of dollars in marketing might help but it probably won't sway the minds of any non-fans into buying the game. Could be a good thing if it sells well because marketing costs could cancel out any sales if it sells modestly.