Team Meat speaks out on Microsoft's broken promises on Super Meat Boy
MS's marketing team drops the ball big time
Team Meat has been speaking out on Microsoft's broken marketing promises on Super Meat Boy.
Microsoft had promised Super Meat Boy would be released on its own and get top billing on Xbox Live on the release day. However, none of this happened as Super Meat Boy was joined by Double-Fine's Costume Quest and only made it in fourth on Xbox Live's marketing channel.
Co-CEO at Team Meat said: "We were just like 'what the f**k? Everyone else gets a free week except for us?'"
After he turned on his Xbox on launch day he was even more angry: "I was like 'What's the deal? Are you guys pulling out? Where's our stuff?' It finally went up half way through our launch day. It was the number four spot; it wasn't number one. The 'spooktacular sale', which was a whole bunch of other games that already came out - that was the number one slot. An ad for a Mazda 3 was the number two slot - because you all go on Xbox to figure out what car you want, right?"
Despite the marketing slips Super Meat Boy's Steam release went well and it is now well on its way to selling 400,000.
Thanks Eurogamer.
