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khenry
Which marketing genius at Eidos came up with this bright idea?? Hitman, the film of the multi-BAFTA-winning series of games, is released a week on Friday, the end of the month. However, just try looking for the standalone PC release of the most recent game, Blood Money.
It’s not officially deleted, but stocks from 2006 have been run down in favour of the compilation out in time for Christmas. It’s certainly a big gamble telling people to buy the last three games in the series in a collection (as Contracts essentially remakes the first game), rather than the most recent and largest in scale, in the absence of a specific movie tie-in on any format. It could mean anyone with the PC version of the game could get a reasonable return from eBay.
Every other videogame release connected to a film has done well in the charts, so it would be a crying shame if Eidos’ stock management caused a failure to profit from Hitman. We’ll have to see what happens in 11 days’ time when the film hits - Tomb Raider’s certainly the best movie based on a videogame until now, whilst the Resident Evil series has proved the most prolific and profitable (even if happiest on DVD). Hopefully Hitman will try to meet these lofty film quality standards. If there’s a sequel, hopefully that will have better release timing with both the game and time of year.
I think it is likely that if someone has seen the film, and want to play the games, they wouldn’t mind getting them all easily in one go, AS LONG as eidos are putting them at a really good price (and, for the purpose of sales, saying like 4 games for the price of one!” or something, this COULD tie in well. I don’t really understand the logic behind compilations of games. CDs i can understand, you only want the hits. But you probably wouldn’t go and buy the whole back catalogue of a goodish band in one go.
if the compilation’s price isn’t right, and it’s just that little extra too high, no one is going to buy it off the back of seeing the film (which is what i assume you mean by games doing well from a film franchise).
and the enthusiasts will already have it. it’s the sort of bargain bin product, for people who want the games for casual fun. Not some madman collector who wants to own every hitman game release ever or something (a much smaller if existent target audience).
William - yes you were right, I meant that people went out and bought the first three games on budget after seeing Tomb Raider to name just one, and I’m sure there was one back washing the other with the Resident Evil films and games too.
I should have seen this last Friday when in the end, I didn’t get anything else done - trying to see it tomorrow or midweek.