See how we also accept Steam concurrents as a valid indicator of a game's success? We don't say nonsense like "well the game is on console and other PC launchers, maybe 99.99% of the playerbase just isn't on Steam."
"While I agree that Concord looks like the game you would get if you told an AI to "make a game like Overwatch with fake Marvel characters," the idea that Ape Escape 4 would do well at this point is laughable (as much as I wish it wasn't). With a few notable exceptions (i.e. GTA, Gran Turismo, the Sony-published Crash games), people grossly overestimate how popular a lot of the nostalgic games from the PS1 and PS2 era actually were. Unless they could keep it at a low budget...
This does seem like it is potentially going to have historically bad sales for a Sony published game. If you look at the Steam concurrent numbers and assume that the PS5 numbers are similar (or even if you give the game the benefit of the doubt and assume it is doing 3-4 times better on PS5, which there is no basis to assume), it's fair to wonder if this game has cracked 30,000 in worldwide sales.
Given that Helldivers 2 is the second best selling game of the year in th...
"Helldivers 2 is dead." Lol the game still has tens of thousands of concurrent players at basically all times. If you had told Sony last year that Helldivers 2 would have 45k people playing (yes on both PS5 and PC, before you try a fake gotcha with SteamDB) in August, and that it would still be charting top 20 every month and be the second best selling game of the year in the US (Circana charts), they wouldn't have believed you.
Honestly you are really just sh...
@LOGICWINS
That's fine. I mean, it doesn't apply to me either, because I have a PC. But I had to make those types of decisions when I was younger and didn't have as much disposable income. Plus even if I hadn't, a pretty standard skill in life is being able to understand why people who are situated differently than you are make the decisions they do.
By your "logic," which in fact does not win, someone who lives in a region that ...
I mean, it's actually not difficult to understand. When people chose between Xbox Series X and PS5 when they were buying a console in 2020-2023, it was with the understanding that there were pros and cons to each, and that in choosing one they knew they would be missing some games only available on the other, but that they would get the advantage of having access to other games not available on the other console. When they chose to spend $500 on the Xbox on that understanding, and then MS...
Lol you have to give him some credit. He always finds another trench to fall back to.
Hey man, shifting the goalposts takes time, even when you are as experienced at it as a certain someone on here has become.
Want to know how a movie did at the box office, and whether it specifically did well in certain regions? That's fine, tons of outlets do those breakdowns and lots of people are interested in them.
Want to know how a video game is doing in terms of sales and concurrent players, and whether it specifically did well in certain regions? RACIST!
@-Foxtrot
You are right on. This is a play corporations run all the time when they are putting out a movie/show/game/product. Find a few people on Twitter who are making bad faith criticisms of an actor/voice actor/director/etc. and then lump all legitimate criticisms with that person. It's the reason these people jump for joy when they get a "death threat" because then they can shut down all legitimate criticism by saying "it's just a game/movie/etc,...
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Yes. I'm frequently in a situation where I have between 45 minutes to an hour and a half to play games, and I'm always reluctant to start a new game in those situations, because I'm usually pretty sure it is going to be painfully boring tutorials for the first hour.
I thought Doom 2016 was a little overrated, but I have to give it a lot of credit for getting out of your way and just letting you start playing.
Yep. You are right on. If the devs feel I need a little time to learn how to play, start me off in a smaller area with lesser enemies early on so I can learn the controls, etc. But let me just play the game. Don't force me to play drawn out tutorials. Breath of the Wild did a decent job with this.
I'm constantly put off from starting new games because I'll only have an hour to play and I don't want to spend the entire hour bogged down in crappy tutorials.
Lol yeah I don't think anyone avoided Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal because of that Doom movie The Rock made in 2005.
You mean like how you all went from "sports games are dumb and for casuals, and no one cares about baseball anyway" one day to "MLB The Show being on Gamepass is a huge win for Xbox" the next day? Something like that? Or maybe it's more like how you all are currently freaking out about FF16 after previously trashing it.
I can't imagine they are going to put more resources into the Hellblade series at this point.
@Hofstaderman
I would have suggested that, or even finding a One S for dirt cheap, but he also wants to play College Football 25.
It'll have to be on Gamepass. Xbox gamers never bought JRPGs in large numbers even at the height of the 360 when publishers were tripping over themselves to try to establish the genre there, and now the last few years they have been conditioned to expect major JRPGs to be on Gamepass.
Lol one of my friends is buying an Xbox because he wants to play old games (i.e. 360 era), and he is still among that fortunately shrinking crowd that hears "PC gaming" and still thinks it will be a complex engineering project to get a PC to run a game and that he'd have to constantly buy new hardware. But he represents a pretty small crowd. Most people in his situation would just play older games on PC.
People keep saying this, but the Deadlock concurrents tell me there is an audience.