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JennyGenesis 07-24-2014 01:28 AM

Sales figures
 
Does anybody at JAW want to give us an insight into how well nnt is selling at the moment. Im curious to see how well its doing considering right now its only on one system.

Varrok 07-24-2014 01:31 AM

Video game companies sometimes show their week-one sales. Or first month sales. But not freakin ONE DAY SALES.

War-Lord 07-24-2014 01:32 AM

Let's hope for the 500,000 sales on one console so they will have more money to do stuff.

Havoc 07-24-2014 01:49 AM

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Video game companies sometimes show their week-one sales. Or first month sales. But not freakin ONE DAY SALES.

GTA begs to differ.

Anyway I don't think they'll have a problem selling over 500k copies of the game. With the reviews the game has been getting it's been getting a lot of good publicity. In fact, I'll be optimistic and predict 1 million sales spread over all platforms by the end of the year.

Xavier 07-24-2014 03:06 AM

Seeing the reviews I'm allowing to dream that this game will sell very well. But yeah it would be nice to know their first week sales. :)

Holy Sock 07-24-2014 03:18 AM



JennyGenesis 07-24-2014 03:22 AM

Well it would be nice to know ASAP if we are getting the exoddus remake.

Havoc 07-24-2014 03:35 AM

Easy kids, it's been only 2 days. Give them some time to relax :lol:

Holy Sock 07-24-2014 03:46 AM

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Well it would be nice to know ASAP if we are getting the exoddus remake.

They're not going to know that for months, though.

Xavier 07-24-2014 05:11 AM

So what will they do now? Work on Alf's escape I guess, but after that?

Pirfsich 07-24-2014 05:23 AM

Patch the game, probably collect ideas/improvements for Exoddus HD, as soon as they know they reached the goal.

Holy Sock 07-24-2014 05:34 AM

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So what will they do now? Work on Alf's escape I guess, but after that?

You should read that guy TB's interview with stew. it was very informative. Essentially they're gonna work on some non-Oddworld projects in the meantime.

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TB: Well, you’ve dropped a few hints, but what’s next for Just Add Water? Are you wanting to go straight into another Oddworld game; is Exoddus on the horizon?

SG: We want to see how New ‘n’ Tasty does first. We’ve said that publicly a couple of time now. If New ‘n’ Tasty doesn’t sell, which I can’t see, but if it doesn’t sell, then there is no money to make an Exoddus. We don’t have publisher money. JAW/Oddworld Inhabitants are the publishers and developers, so to make the next game we have to make money from the current game. We went over budget with this one by a huge amount because we spent an extra 9 months on it, so we’ve spent the budget for pre-production of Exoddus kind of already, so we’re going to be waiting 3-6 months to see how New ‘n’ Tasty does before we make the decision about doing Exoddus. Yeah we’d like to do Exoddus. If we do decide to do it, because we’re doing our non-Oddworld projects next, we will have to ramp up to twice the size probably to do that, because Exoddus, even though it’s the same game engine and the same gameplay, as you mentioned earlier, you’ve got flying Sligs, and there are a few other things that are different, possessing farts-

TB: Yeah, that’s crucial!

SG: But the big thing is that there are twice the number of locations, so you need more artists, so it’s chicken and egg. Before we commit to doing Exoddus, we have to make sure though that there’s enough money in the bank from ‘New ‘n’ Tasty to make sure we can do Exoddus and do it right. We’ve got a couple of other projects ourselves, I think there will be an announcement at Gamescom for one of them… touch wood. I’m talking to people on Wednesday at Sony about something else as well, we’ve already pitched another project to Sony Europe, which is the 2-year project I mentioned to you, but that will be more of a case of… we want to greenlight that, but we want to greenlight it at the right time, so we’re going to go through all our steps for Sony Europe first and make sure we come up with a project that’s right, and we’re not just wasting our time with it because it’s a big one. It’s a complete departure from anything we’ve done before, so that might surprise some people if we do go ahead with it. On top of that there’s another mini-ish nine month project that I’m hoping to greenlight by the end of June/beginning of July, so we’re going to be busy. We’ve got a new website coming as well, and it’s got 6 project icons on the front page, and two of them just say ‘unannounced’, so that will be interesting to see those when they can be announced!
EDIT: also earlier in the interview:

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TB: Perfect!

SG: We’re doing another Oddworld project sometime later this year/next year and that guy’s doing a big character in that for us. I sent him the concept documents and stuff and he just went “Yeah I’m there, signed up”. Cool! Really? Yay!
But that might be referring to Exoddus.

Xavier 07-24-2014 05:42 AM

Yeah I should definitly read it when I find some time, looks very interesting!

Also Gamescom! Woot! Maybe I'll see some of the JAW guys over there :D

OWI_Alex 07-24-2014 06:27 AM

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Yeah I should definitly read it when I find some time, looks very interesting!

Also Gamescom! Woot! Maybe I'll see some of the JAW guys over there :D

I really want to go, but the costs are crazy now and most of the hotels are booked up solid. :fuzsad: