Bioware: Mass Effect: Andromeda floppade på grund av Zelda

Mass Effect: Andromeda blev en rejäl flopp för Bioware och inte alls vad fansen hoppats på efter så lång tid. Nu har Bioware-producenten Mark Darrah kommenterat detta i en video hos Game Informer, där han förklarar att Mass Effect: Andromeda aldrig fick en ärlig chans eftersom det kom samtidigt som bland annat The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Det uttalande föll inte i god jord hos fansen och nu har Darrah förtydligat saken påTwitter:

I'm going to regret this in half an hour but let's talk "did MEA get a fair shake"
First off, the question was not "is MEA secretly a great game and did mean Nintendo make us fail?" MEA is a deeply flawed game. Especially at launch. But the review environment was crowded. Nier, Nioh, Horizon, and Zelda all launched in MEAs window. Each does something better than MEA (again, a flawed game). As a result, even systems that are pretty decent get scrutinized against superiorly implemented ones. Does launching in a different window turn 72% into 90) Certainly not. 72 into 77/78? Maybe. Does that affect sales? Some. But word of mouth matters so much these days. You launch the best game you can. MEA has a lot of problems and got lapped by genuinely better games."

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