The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed underperformed for developer Obsidian, but the studio isn't letting that discourage it from making more games in the Avowed universe, according to a new report.
Speaking to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Obsidian head Feargus Urquhart says that both action RPGs didn't sell as well as the studio's owner Microsoft hoped, although he says neither game was a "disaster" for Obsidian.
Instead, Urquhart says the feeling within Obsidian was more geared towards what lessons the studio could take from the two games' relative failure in sales terms. According to Urquhart, The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed's bad performance led his studio to "think a lot about how much we put into the games, how much we spend on them, how long they take".
Part of that goal is to cut down Obsidian's production pipeline to just three or four years per game; according to Schreier's report, both Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 took around six years to make, and that's partly why Microsoft had such high expectations for them.
The Outer Worlds 2's disappointing sales status doesn't seem to have been impacted by the game being sold for $70 rather than $80, although sales could...
