These are six games that don't stand much of a chance of standing out in the release window of November 17-23, the busiest release window in quite some time.
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This video explains why we think Electronic Arts didn't see a future in the sim racing title Project CARS and promptly cancelled the fourth instalment.
After the last installment I’d say most hardcore fans left. It’s just not that good anymore so I can’t really blame EA this time.
It makes perfect sense. It's obviously a play on the title. Jesus christ you must be a blast at parties.
Ask Bullfrog or Black Box or Tiburon or Studio 33 or Criterion or any of the previously acquired developers who made racing games as competition, or as developers of EA games, then eventually dissolved into oblivion or reassigned. Just ask them. They'll tell you why.
Oh. I forgot. Even Code Masters were absorbed into Criterion. Another racing developer EA took over.
Every racing developer either absorbed by EA or eventually destroyed by them. They either kill competition or have them in the end make Need 4 Speed for them.
Not when it's because it didn't meet some crazy margin. It's like if something doesn't make EA a billion dollars on day one (I'm exaggerating that figure of course), they swiftly put it out to pasture.
Much like if you're spending money on what's a bad investment for your desired goals, you'd do away with it, if you're wise. We should try to get away from thinking we know more about business than individuals that have been doing it for decades. Perhaps you could benefit from going into business instead of wasting all of your talents in comment sections. It's clear that you're the missing piece that EA's been looking for.
I've made a good amount of money betting on underdog investments over the years.
EA sets unrealistic expectations of their more niche developers, yet continue to fund absolute blunders like DICE and the Battlefield series year after year.
Ian Bell, the founder of Slightly Mad Studios, is aiming to hire former Project CARS employees to work on his upcoming GTR Revival project.
If it's just going to be another sim-cade that doesn't do either one correctly then no thanks.
Project CARS 2 was a step in the right direction but the physics still aren't where they should have been, so what did they do for PC3? Go completely arcade. That killed the franchise.
I agree that all of these listed are going to be overlooked for the most part. Look for sonic to find the most traction than the others purely due to its being linked to the show and two titles released on Wii U and the other on 3DS. I am actually looking forward to seeing how the gameplay is handled in it. The reviews I have seen dont say it is terrible, merely that it is different.
Watch Dogs however is going to be the biggest piece of junk around as far as sales. Nintendo owners in general are done with Ubisoft because of their lack of integrity and failure to provide the people who did support their games on the Wii U with proper support in return.
This game isnt releasing only a couple months late. It is releasing 6 MONTHS late. Anyone whi was going to play this game would have done so by now on their other owned ps4 or XB1. This . Game will do maybe 200k lifetime sales on Wii U at the most and Ubisoft will use it as another reason to abandon the Wii U even though they are the ones releasing it 6 months late.
All of the other games never really had a chance to compete with other titles releasing in November, except maybe Project Cars. But you need to remember that getting you game released in November poises it for strong sales through the entire Holiday season. Almost all of the new games coming out between now and new years are in November. So they will sell better in December once christmas gets closer.
Yeah, I'm not getting any of those games. There are much better games coming out in Oct & Nov.
Except Project Cars, I think its gonna sell especially in Europe.
Looking forward to Project Cars on Wii U in 2015 and Sonic on Wii U on November 11th. Maybe if Project Cars does tank on other systems but does better on Wii U when it's released in a month that's not crazy with releases they'll see that Wii U is the platform to put out sequels on. Time will tell I guess but it looks great!
It's just dumb on the publisers part. I may have bought a few of these during the 9 month deadzone and especially in July or August. Now you are right, they will be buried and forgotten. I'm sure some could have been out sooner.
It's great that we had MK8, DKTF, Titanfall, Infamous and WatchDogs and all but with new systems people want to eat up anything new that comes out. Now these will be lost in AC, COD, Smash, Halo Black Friday holiday madness. Good Luck.