It sold pretty well though didn't it?
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Square-Enix trying to sell off IO Interactive (Hitman)
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It sold pretty well though didn't it?
tearsintherain
Member
Well that really sucks, Hitman was one of the BEST games of last year. 150+ hours sunk into the PC version on my end.
Sycoraxic98
Neo Member
Yeah, it's an Eidos IP that they acquired in 2009.
Smokey_Run
Member
Wtf. I guess that means no season 2 anytime soon, if at all.
serenewarfare
Banned
As much as I think the episodic nature actually helped the game from a quality standpoint, I think it hurt it from a sales perspective.
ScientificPizza
Banned
whoa this is insane
TheUnsunghero26
Member
Fuuuuck. What does this mean about season 2? Surely they have been working on it for the past few months? I really hope we still get something out of it.
First Mass Effect goes on hiatus, now this. What a day. Someone is out to get to me.
First Mass Effect goes on hiatus, now this. What a day. Someone is out to get to me.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
I refuse to believe Absolution sold 3 million on Steam alone.
AcademicSaucer
Member
What's the situation of the IPs?
thefatness16
Banned
Extremely disappointing. Hitman 2016 is incredible and i was pretty excited to see more of it. Hope someone can come in and save IO.
Hellwarden
Member
Goddamn, if this kills season 2, after the first season was so good...
Why do I have the scary feeling that they are going to rush/cut content of KH3 :s
For $5 sale prices and being in Square Enix Humble Bundles...it's not impossible.
serenewarfare
Banned
Hasn't it been in a ton of bundles and sold for dirt cheap in Steam sales?
I'd buy that it'a sold that much given how long it has been out.
Sycoraxic98
Neo Member
It's been on sale for as low as $2 before, hasn't it? Plus it's frequently in bundles...I highly doubt more than half of that number paid full price (or close) for it
InsaneTiger
Member
Wow, hope everything turns out well for IO.
Do you think someone will likely buy them without any IP changing hands?
Square Enix may be run by idiots, but they still know if they are making money.
This pretty much confirms the studio isn't making them money, so we can stop with the second guessing now.
That may have been a factor as well, but lets face it: Absolution shit the bed. The franchise was tainted after someone decided to fuck it up and make a linear game out of it. Backlash was huge, even though it sold well and the initial hype was strong. Once you played it though...uuuggghhhh.
Also: Todays market etc.
skullmuffins
Banned
Giant Bomb's GOTY! (if that means anything, lol). Idle Thumbs guys were also enamored with it for a while. Were there a lot of technical problems? I only remember a lot of griping about the online-only business.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
So SE is at a loss solely due to Hitman?
Does that impact their other non-IO titles?
Or Eidos isn't doing well. Didn't Rise of the Tomb Raider didn't do so well too?
Does that impact their other non-IO titles?
Or Eidos isn't doing well. Didn't Rise of the Tomb Raider didn't do so well too?
GHG
Member
This is just sad. Very sad.
Not sure who was responsible for all the terrible messaging and marketing of HITMAN (I assume SE), but that was a big part of it failing, not the quality. That's a shame. It does seem at odds with Season Two, but my understanding is S2 was greenlit like mid last year so it's actually been a while.
Jason Frost
Member
What the fuck? I mean, why?
Er no. An extraordinary loss is a one time loss that comes out of a unique occurrence. It's not losing money because something didn't sell. In this case they are declaring the loss from them exiting IO as a business.
It's a strange dilemma.
Square -- as a publisher -- hasn't put out this kind of quality stuff in ages, along with Life is Strange and Nier: Automata.
Ironically, still not enough to get them enough earnings in their eyes.
Get_craycray
Banned
It's sad but I'm not very surprised here. The episodic format is what hurt it IMO, and now that the game is available physically, there's no more interest (at least for me).
So yeah, it had a good reception, the episodic format may have helped improve quality but people weren't ready to see a known AAA franchise go down that road.
Too bad.
So yeah, it had a good reception, the episodic format may have helped improve quality but people weren't ready to see a known AAA franchise go down that road.
Too bad.
I remember general consensus on GAF was to wait until all episodes were out, then anyone still interested would pick it up. Seems like not too many were still interested.
I also remember talk of Squeenix going in hard on episodic games, kinda cutting up things that didn't need to be episodic, due to the popularity of Telltale games and the like. Unfortunately, it was Telltale's The Wolf Among Us that taught me to wait until the entire season was out before I dove in.
You will get more Absolution and generic run of the mill shooters and like it.
Rellik
Member
I thought I was the weird one for preferring Absolution and getting bored of the new one after 6 hours, but looks like I'm not that crazy afterall lol.
GenericUser
Member
*laughing nomura*
Square needs to reboot itself. What a baffling case of mismanagement.
Square needs to reboot itself. What a baffling case of mismanagement.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
It's times like these when a Dragon Quest spinoff and NieR sell on-par or a bit more than a mainline Hitman game.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Maybe next time release the whole game at once and not episodes.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Oof.
Not surprising, looking at the sales numbers. With all hands on deck from their western studios being Marvel and Tomb Raider, they probably don't want to bother with anything selling less than a million copies.
Not surprising, looking at the sales numbers. With all hands on deck from their western studios being Marvel and Tomb Raider, they probably don't want to bother with anything selling less than a million copies.