14 DAY TRIAL // The upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter will suffer when it is launched during the fall season because of the poor quality and low reviews linked to the first game in the rebooted series, which was launched during 2010.
Doug Creutz, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Cowen, has released a research paper which shows that it initially projected Warfighter to sell about 2.3 million copies from launch until the end of the year.
Since then, the company has decided that the projections were based on shaky data and has reduced its estimates to 1.4 million copies sold throughout the same period.
Creutz stated, “This is based on a very soft performance since E3 in Amazon’s top-selling game rankings compared to other recent titles. We think the most likely culprit for apparent gamer disinterest is the poor quality of the last ‘Medal of Honor’ game in 2010.”
Medal of Honor: Warfighter will offer a single-player component which focuses on the same characters seen in the reboot and aims to introduce more emotion to the way players interact with them.
The game also has a new multiplayer mode, which I got to play during E3 2012, based on teams of two players and on a wide variety of classes drawn from the Special Forces of a significant number of countries.
Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be launched on October 23 in the United States and three days later in Europe, on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, the PC and the Wii U.
Cowen has also estimated that the overall number of subscribers for the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO from BioWare and Electronic Arts would drop to less than half a million, but that was before the two companies announced that their title would introduce a free-to-play version during the fall.