Hi,
I’m around the first xbox time and I’m doing quite alright but there is one problem I can’t find a solution for.
Maybe I just didn’t understand it right but…
I really like doing sequels to my games, i basicaly have like 5 or 6 “series” of game.
But I have to publish them myself, even when they are Medium as it seems I can’t have a publisher deal for a sequel…
Therefore I have situations where the first episode of a serie comes from a publisher deal and reach several millions in sale but every sequel will have to be auto publish and be sold less than a million.
Am I missing something ?
Is it possible to have a publisher deal for a sequel ?
You are missing literally nothing at all.
There is a big chance that your sequel will score like 1M sells rather than 10M but… you will get same cash for it (since you get whole benefit not just royalities) and the funbase increase should be the same too.
Sells does not really matter in the game.
From the other side, it would be nice to some complexity in sequels from publishers, some option like: product sequel with same publisher, or buyout the rights to francise, or even order the smaller company to do sequel for you.
No, this is because the publisher sort of gives you temporary fans. They hype up your game EVERYWHERE around the virtual world, but mostly only mention themselves as a company instead of your company, the actual developers. You’ll notice that with real life games, too. So for the first game in your series, you sell around one million copies, let’s say. That’s about … 700 thousand fake fans. Unless you have enough fans (~95k), then the next game you publish in that series is only going to have your actual fan base. Unless you market the hell out of it, the game will not sell anywhere near the same.
