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It wasn't Amazon that was doing the pressuring on Sony and bringing up an unrelated case from 4 years prior just highlights that you have no proof to back up your claims (you did just try to claim that in response to Amazon wanting a bigger cut from Sony, Amazon ended their 20% off discount for preorders). Since there is no court case where we get to see internal company communications, all we can do is look at what happened and when. What we do know is that Amazon and Best Buy were bot...

You are correct, which is why I referenced lifetime sales vs. time supported by Nintendo. Everyone remembers the success of the DS, but even after the DS launched the Gameboy Advance still sold almost 20 million more units. Pretty impressive considering that the last new games Nintendo published for it were Mario Party and Mario Tennis: Power Tour in 2005.

Worldwide, Gameboy Advance was on the market for 3 years 5 months before the DS replaced it. The Switch is extremely successful, and I would still give it the edge over the GBA since it costs at least double, but you have to admit that the GBA is probably the most overlooked Nintendo handheld. If Nintendo kept it on the market for 6 years like they did with the DS, then we probably would have had another handheld selling at least 125 million units.

That isn't even close to what happened but it isn't surprising to see the lengths some go to defend Sony. Sony stopped third-parties from selling digital PSN games in 2019. Amazon stop selling pre-orders for Sony exclusives as well as PSN cards in 2018 and they only returned in 2018 after Amazon ended their Amazon Prime pre-order discount. 2018 was also the same year that Best Buy terminated Gamers Club Unlocked - another program that offered consumers an option to buy a game cheap...

Gameboy Advance was only on the market for 3 years before its replacement was released. No other console or handheld has had that kind of lifetime sales success (81.5 million) in such a short amount of supported time.

Digital sales played a big part in this achievement. Digital game sales have overtaken physical sales, with the average price spent on a PSN game being between $20 and $30. Meanwhile, PS2 reached its sales achievement with only physical sales and the only time games saw the deep discounts that PS4 games routinely get on PSN was when brick-and-mortar stores were clearing out old stock. The whole breakdown of the information is quite interesting in showing the growth of digital video game sa...

We can only hope. Despite being around since the 80s, Capcom only seems interested in Resident Evil and Monster Hunter - with a little support for Devil May Cry and Street Fighter. Mega Man, Marvel Vs Capcom, and Dead Rising seem to be dead, they took 4 years to release the latest Ace Attorney game outside of Japan (and only digitally for PS4 and PC), and new IPs like Dragon's Dogma are abandoned.

Monster Hunter is massive now. World sold 7.5 million copies in its first 5 weeks. Only thing that can stop Monster Hunter is Capcom themselves screwing the series up (which unfortunately they have done to too many of their other IPs).

Sony didn't "lose" 3rd party exclusives - 3rd party exclusives from big publishers pretty much disappeared during the 7th console generation. Games cost more to produce which meant that it made little sense for publishers to limit themselves to one console. There was no exclusive GTA, Final Fantasy, Tekken, Kingdom Heart, or Devil May Cry. What few 3rd party exclusives that remained were due to hardware or timing limitations. Capcom's Lost Planet was originally exclusive...

Well done Sony and Jim Ryan! Thank you.

I wonder if Christopher will attempt to block this piece of news as well. He worked so hard to keep the store closing news from n4g readers because god forbid Sony fans hear something negative about Sony, especially when speaking up about it could - and did - change the final decision.

This is the quality content we can expect on n4g. Sorry Sony gamers, Christopher doesn't think you need to hear about PSN stores being shut down or software problems that will affect your consoles in the future. You do get to read the 22nd article about someone saying that Microsoft is better than Sony because of Gamepass - with actual ads for Gamepass embedded in the article.

Gamepass is fine for what it is but if your entire purpose for buying an XBox rests on you g...

"That's why the number of copies sold is not a good metric." In that case, only sales of Nintendo games matter since Sony offers all their games at a discount months after release. If you still want to downplay the successful sales of Days Gone, how do you deal with it being the 19th best selling game in the US in 2019 (the only PS4 exclusive in the top 2019)?

People can be upset with Sony not making a sequel to Days Gone because it didn't reach an arbit...

While I agree with the overall sentiment of the statement, that is about the dumbest thing to say when it comes to Days Gone and the condition it launched in. People don't like buying games at launch because too often it takes months afterwards to get the game in a playable state with no bugs and game mechanics that actually make sense. Also, it wasn't sales that affected Days Gone future since apparently it sold more copies than all previous Bend Studio games combined.