Bloober wants The Medium to be one of the most significant games of the second half of 2020 – and they don’t regret any money for that!

The Polish development team, the Bloober Team, recently gained a reputation for putting two quality Layers of Fear games and an even better Observer on the table, and that’s not all the guys can achieve: they have even more ambitious plans with The Medium.

In an interview with the Polish version of Business Insider, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno stated that their goal is to make The Medium the hottest game of the second half of 2020 with the help of Platige.

“The Xbox Series X has solved a lot of the problems that existed in the current generation.” Says the Bloober Team.

In addition, the boss also revealed the costs of The Medium and Observer: System Redux. The former has already exceeded 30 million Polish zlotys, which means that it is about 6.7 million euros at current exchange rates! The latter game will be cheaper than this: “only” 10 million zlotys, ie €2.24 million.

„For years, we were a developer who created games rather on lower budgets. We have been observing Platige productions for a long time, but at that time we didn’t have the financial means to cooperate. Our studio started to develop and take on more and more productions, the natural thing was that we wanted to create an AAA game.”

„The Medium project is big and we wanted to hire the best, so we turned to Platige. We not only gain from the business side, but we also receive creative support. Platige has experience with the film website. We also have such experience, but in this cooperation we get not only material that makes this project look very good, but also a lot of substantive input, which we think will enable The Medium to become the hottest game of the year end.”

„In the case of The Medium, it will be over PLN 30 million and Observer: System Redux – we will fit in the amount below PLN 10 million. These are the amounts taking into account production and marketing together.”

„The Medium has patent protection in the USA for the dual game worlds feature. While developing this technology we got a few subsidies and they helped us to put the budget together. It is important from the point of view of the result that we don’t have to recover thoses, because a large part of them are subsidies.”

The Medium will be released later this year for PC and Xbox Series X. The developers said their game could not have materialized in this form on current-generation consoles.

Source: WCCFTech

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