Every now and then, with the right promotions (fire sales) and during the month of Black Friday, Xbox has sometimes outsold PlayStation in the United States.
87 Metacritic score on PC.
83 Metacritic score on Xbox.
Spider-Man 2 will be such a flop, surely.
Hardly any game is a good as it’s Metacritic score. We know that overall review scores are so inflated that a 6/10 is considered unplayable. Way too many “reviewers” won’t score anything less than a 7. I think it would be more beneficial for gamers to have a ranking system. For example, how does Starfield rank against Mass Effect 2, Fallout 4, or Cyberpunk 2077? It’s easy to throw out a high score and make people happy. It’s harder think critically.
Microsoft does their own internal reviews. They knew this game would be about a 7/10 overall. So they juiced the score at launch by cherry picking reviewers that would give them higher scores. Movies studios do the same thing with Rotten Tomatoes.
Ding, dang, that is some powerful mobile gaming hardware. Just imagine for a moment that this chipset with ray tracing makes its way to a set top box.
“nowhere else to go with this kind of videogame”
Words that age like milk.
This was made to appeal to first time purchasers, like the PS+ Collection at the launch of the PS5. Also worth noting that unlike PS+, Game Pass games and Games with Gold games can’t be shared in the same house across logins. Maybe dad has a sweet Xbox collection, but his kids don’t.
They are tracking 3.2M PS5 players. They say the Saints Row's PS Plus debut player count fell 23.64% short of the Battlefield 2042 PS Plus debut.
I’m getting Civilization 4 vibes from this comment.
“maybe it was good strategy to delay some review copies”
Good for who? As a gamer, I want the best games. I don’t really give a shit about Microsoft’s quarterly earnings.
Like duh. Those were promotions to get you okay Xbox. But now that you’ll play for Starfield and other upcoming exclusives (that I’ll believe when I see them), they don’t need promotional prices and discounts.
Day’s Gone was fun from the start. It was really, really fun when you could take down a horde with a machine gun. Instead of end game content, that should have been the mechanic from the start.
A GOTY contender needs to be fun to play from start to finish.
Review bombing or now that the game has moved beyond Microsoft’s PR, we are getting real reviews? I do think users should stop using 1 and 10 as their only scores. If you want everyone else to show integrity, you need to.
Sales of Starfield will give you a good idea of whether Elder Scrolls 6 will be exclusive. 6M players in launch window seems kind of low between PC and Xbox. Microsoft doesn’t just need to get their $7.5B back, they need to pay all those developers and pay for marketing. At some point, if this isn’t moving Xbox units, exclusivity is a money loser. Remember folks, Microsoft is a software company, and games are software,
In today’s subscription gaming world, played does not equal bought.
Not surprising. Even the best games with the broadest appeal like Spider-Man will sell to less than a quarter of the install base. Even when you give a game away, like publishers did with Lego games and Horizon Zero Dawn during the pandemic, you won’t see the needle move much. That’s why Bethesda was a $7.5B purchase and not a $70B purchase.
Don’t know about Halo Infinite, but the at the apex of Halo, Halo 3 had 1M concurrent players at launch and 13M lifetime sales on Xbox 360. On the high end estimate, Halo 3 May have sold 8M in the first week. That was on Xbox 360 only.
Let’s put to rest the myth that the Western work is lazier than the Eastern worker or that killing yourself for your corporate masters is virtuous behavior.