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Originally Posted by pferreira
To be fair Batman is a licenced property as well.
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Originally Posted by TigerClaw
Batman is a license property too, but the thing is, the developers working on those games respect the source material, since its a very well known property that requires a lot of attention.
TMNT is a license property, but has the stigma that its a kids property, which is why they don't pay much attention to the source material, since there are so many different incarnations of it, they just come up with there own, Mutants in Manhattan is its own thing, even though the art looks inspired by IDW.
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It is sure, but don't forget that the Arkham series is done in house, they're done by WB themselves (or at least one of their subsidiaries) and they own DC as well, not only that but the devs are huge fans of the property so they'll try their best at doing them justice, so you have more money invested because it's something they have all the interest in doing it properly + huge fans working on it, so it equals to a bether final product.
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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
Oh, there's a niche market for them, sure, which is nicely offset by the next to nothing budgets of these.
Where people are fooling themselves, I see, is this idea that some kind of Final Fight clone/Turtles in Time Again new TMNT game in 2017 is going to put TMNT back on the map with video games and video gamers at large. It's not, not remotely. It's going to placate the people in their 30s and 40s that miss that soothing "simpler time" where it was OK that every game was a 2-button Final Fight knockoff. It'd make a modest profit, but nothing to write home about and would connect with exactly 0% of newer, younger video gamers. Maybe as a cell phone game with at least a little bit of substance to it.
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No one here is expecting that a retro game would do the numbers of a AC or a COD game, you're the one that's adamant that a game to be successfull has to make millions. What you don't seem to understand is that RETRO is the new hot thing on the video game world, and a retro style TMNT game COULD be a huge hit, not just for the "people in their 30s and 40s that miss that soothing "simpler time" but for everyone.
Again, for the past couple of months, for almost every week, the best selling game on most of the digital platforms (STEAM/PSN/XBOX LIVE) is a retro/retro styled game, so saying this is a niche market just proves how ignorant and out of your element you really are, and if you want numbers just look them up, lots of places you can check this info.