Unreal Tournament is an established franchise that already has a set group of people who will buy this (and maybe some who are new). Due to this Epic does not need to create a lot of hype because they know who their audience is and they can target them more directly than trying to create a general hysteria about their game then have disappointing sales.
@Gaara42, I'm sure there are folks who get the game later, especially considering the nature of system reqs in PC gaming, but from the PC charts I've seen, nearly every game other than Blizzard games and The Sims fall off the charts after 1-2 months.
We don't have any figures on modern PC games, so its hard to really benchmark this stuff. I think the Enemy Territory NPD Future will certainly help us when that data is released, but I think PC games are overvalued in general here.
Does anyone know if Unreal Tournament games sell a lot of copies in their first month or do they have a really long tail? Most of the people I know who play UT2004 still bought it a year or more after it was released, that is what I did. Due to this I think that the current price may be to high and that a price around 18DKP seems more realistic.
wow i just noticed that crysis, call of duty four and unreal tournament all shooter/pc games are being released head to head on the same month?Wont this affect there sales?
I agree that the name change was not a good idea. Seeing as Unreal Tournament 2007 is far more impressive than Unreal Tournament 3. Of course, it won't probably affect sales at all.
By the way, I do hope the 360 version will be able to play with PC users (though... Mouse/KB->Dual Analog Controller).
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Unreal Tournament is an established franchise that already has a set group of people who will buy this (and maybe some who are new). Due to this Epic does not need to create a lot of hype because they know who their audience is and they can target them more directly than trying to create a general hysteria about their game then have disappointing sales.