Tim Schafer: fans worry too much about game sales

Doublefine daddy Tim Schafer thinks you should stop studying the NPDs until you're bloody and broken and get on with your life. His rationale: Publishers don't give two flips about sales so long as you make great games.

"Fans worry too much about sales, to tell you the truth," he told MTV Multiplayer. "As long as you make a cool game, publishers want to talk to you... [They say] 'We liked Psychonauts and we think we could have sold it better'."

Schafer doesn't plan on breaking too many marketing teams, though. Speaking of his upcoming title, Brutal Legend, he said:

"[It is] a game that naturally has more commercial hooks, like hot babes and Jack Black.”

The man's cracked the code, clearly. Brutal Legend will hit the Xbox 360 and PS3 later this year.