The surprise release of Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered hasn’t impacted the sales of French JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, its publisher has said.
Sandfall Interactive’s game was released last week from publisher Kepler and with support from Xbox, but some feared any success would be overshadowed by the Oblivion release that leaked ahead of time.
However, Kepler’s senior portfolio director Matt Handrahan has drawn a distinction between the two games, adding “proximity to Oblivion didn’t seem to harm us at all”.
“We always knew that Expedition 33 had a very specific identity,” Handrahan told The Game Business. “When I was in the press, I saw the Western-style RPG and the Japanese-style RPG as having quite different appeals and audiences. I knew plenty of people that would play an Elder Scrolls game that wouldn’t necessarily play Final Fantasy and vice versa.