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[Propagandhim]

....not a single one of them, in their expert knowledge of the industry and what will, or will not, be a success, predicted that Helldivers 2 would blow up like it did when it launched. Because it's significantly easier to predict a failure than it is a success. Outside of some legacy IP, or developers with strong track records, predicting a "win" in this industry is incredibly hard. Hell, not a single person on the net would have anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 having the disastrous launch it did (in terms of performance on the PS4 and Xbox ONE), but that game was a financial success, and sold millions despite it all, but the point is that it's just not that easy to see where things are going to go when it comes to the positive, profitable side of the coin. Any game can bomb. Even the Wii U bombed, after coming from the massive success that was the Wii.

 

Nobody could have foreseen this