Stumpokapow
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Kusagari said:Do you discount the idea though that Layton 5, while not having legs on par with the first game, might show better legs than the others thanks to being a launch game?
I think there are a variety of competing factors at work here:
- As a launch game, it'll probably get bonus sales (due to the lack of competing software) and bonus legs (due to would-be owners not having the hardware yet and buying the game when they get the hardware)
- As a franchise, I think Layton is not likely to grow and franchises that don't grow decline due to stagnation. I think Layton is, in other words, a franchise in decline.
So those opposing factors will mitigate one another, but it's hard to say what the final result will be. Also, there's a third factor:
- When is Layton 6 coming out, and what kind of game will it be content-wise?
Of course if Layton 5 and Layton 6 end up selling 1.5 million and 2.0 million respectively, I've obviously got this wrong and I'll readily admit it. But the above is how I see things going as of right now.