I mentioned this before a ~week ago in some other thread but do you guys think Titanfall can attract the mass dudebro market? It's unfair to call that whole CoD/Madden crowd dudebros but just for the sake of conversation let's call them that.
I'm thinking with the game being more sci-fi and having MECHS(!) I have my doubts this will be the roaring success Respawn and EA are hoping for. Dudebros (18+) don't like unrealistic games with sci-fi weapons and settings. Before you say Halo, I consider that more of a 12-17 age group game than a dudebro game. I've talked to people who only CoD/Battlefield and Madden and I've asked them why don't you don't try X game and it's always that's it's too unrealistic, cartoony, corny, etc.
Halo's sales are dropping, by the way. That's probably franchise fatigue but it also could be just that sci-fi shooters like that are falling out of favor. CoD and Battlefield are the top dogs. I don't think Titanfall is a guaranteed blockbuster franchise. Might just sell a couple million. I hope I'm wrong, I love sci-fi.
Edit- couple million is prob too conservative, change that to 3-4 mil, like a Borderlands type of success, but not the 10, 15 , 20 million CoD and BF sell now.