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Why no Joe games, do you think?
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08-12-2017, 04:48 PM
solosam
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Agreed with all of the above. Military themed games sell like hotcakes and GI Joe could easily fit into a number of genres. Just off the top of my head, COD, Metal Gear and X-COM - style games would be totally viable.
But the problem - as always - boils down to money. As others have already mentioned, producing top-tier games requires a budget on par with a movie. But it would also be released into a market that is already pretty saturated. The problem with making a 'Call of Duty' style Joe shooter is that it would be competing with 'Call of Duty.' In the same way that movies are dominated by sequels, game producers tend to be only interested in long-running franchises. And trying to time it to coincide with the release of a TV show or movie is also problematic. Tie-in video games are notoriously terrible, mostly because they require a longer development time and budget than a movie timetable permits, and the best game developers are working on their own properties.
But it's not like it hasn't happened before. Transformers has had a number of good games, even before the movies hit. Another good example might be the 'Ghostbusters' game from a few years back. It moved between a number of publishers, and at one point I even heard it was canned specifically because it was not a long-running franchise like the ones producers love so much. But at the time, there was no 'Ghostbusters' movie or TV show to sustain interest. It just appeared on it's own, running on nothing but nostalgia, and it was very successful. I don't know of any reason GI Joe could not do the same thing, if they were willing to take a chance.
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