...and to indicate that the game's quality can have very little to do with anything, we have this quote:

``'Driver 3' would have had to be as good or better than 'Enter the Matrix' to regain investor confidence,'' said Jean-Michel Salvador, analyst at French investment bank Fideuram Wargny.

Although I've not played either game, I saw more than enough reviews of ETM to assure me that it was rubbish. Surely the chances of Driv3r being a worse game than ETM are incredibly slim.

And despite the vast amounts of money spent on marketing Driv3r, it sounds as if they thought it could compete with the marketing provided by the Matrix films, which is crazy (regardless of how bad the Matrix sequels were).

Like you said... why would a publisher bet everything on a single title?!? It makes no sense. Developers often have to do that, but I thought the whole point of being a publisher is that you have your eggs in many baskets.

This comment was edited on Aug 1, 21:40.