Did it even fail though? Its hard to know because Xbox counts Gamepass downloads with sales, but between the two it had over 3 million "sales". Which is massive for a AA game. And considering it had no marketing budget at all, they had a much lower bar to reach to succeed.
I doubt it was a success on the level that everyone got bonuses that year because of it, but its hard to imagine it actually failed.
I do believe they did sabotage it. Maybe not intentionally, but it feels as though it should have done better. 3 million should have been a success, even for a AA title.
Last August they were praising it. MS said that they were happy with it.
They closed the studio that made it not even ten months saying that.
Did it even fail though? Its hard to know because Xbox counts Gamepass downloads with sales, but between the two it had over 3 million "sales". Which is massive for a AA game. And considering it had no marketing budget at all, they had a much lower bar to reach to succeed.
I doubt it was a success on the level that everyone got bonuses that year because of it, but its hard to imagine it actually failed.
I do believe they did sabotage it. Maybe not intentionally, but it feels as though it should have done better. 3 million should have been a success, even for a AA title.
Last August they were praising it. MS said that they were happy with it.
They closed the studio that made it not even ten months saying that.
Kinda like sabotaging ff7 and stellar blade by making them ps5 exclusive. We will never know the true sell data if it got released on all platforms.
Not many people is gonna drop 500 dollars to play a game.