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Comment author: gwern 19 March 2012 03:50:52AM 0 points [-]

Note that I'm not saying making a sequel is very profitable. I'm saying if you have a very profitable game, then making a sequel of it is very profitable and safe.

Oh. OK, that makes sense.

Comment author: CronoDAS 19 March 2012 04:46:56AM *  3 points [-]

Incidentally, video games usually manage to avoid the problems that movie sequels have; movie sequels are usually not as good as the original, but video game sequels usually manage to improve on their predecessors.