Sony have since given a statement on this, and confirmed it is accurate and is global:
“Globally, we are moving from PlayStation Now gift cards to focus on our current cash denomination PlayStation gift cards, which can be redeemed for PlayStation Now.”
I'm interested to try this out - I used to play sports management games back in the day and F1 was easily the best.
That's hardly surprising... it's true for most PC games, if the port is decent.
Except it doesn't... because the market is much bigger than just game sales...
That logic makes no sense.
So we’re supposed to just discount both Series S and PS5 digital sales? Do the companies not receive any revenue for those consoles?
If they generate revenue, then their sales matter.
"the series x has been available from about 6 months after launch"
Where? I just checked Walmart, Target, BestBuy, Walmart, GameStop, Amazon. All out of stock.
"the PS5 was only available for one week for the entire year, no exaggeration"
See this is the problem with judging retail availability based on what you see in your area. I have personally never seen an Xbox Series X in person, but I have two PS5's and go...
Good choice, PN2 was clearly the best platformer of last year. It Takes Two is a close second though, the fact that it has couch coop is awesome.
@Bathyj What is sad about selling more?
The PS5 is also outselling the PS4 at this point, and the Switch is decimating everything. Is that sad too?
@darthv72 Agreed, 360 just felt like a huge leap, not just in terms of games but the services, apps, dash, etc.
So Series S sales don't count...? That's not how business and sales/revenue works...
100% YES. A FEAR remake would also be awesome, if done by the right team.
I honestly don't know how he finds the time to platinum so many games, did he hire a PA to play through the time consuming/hard to get trophies? :P
GDC more-so than E3 though - companies tend to send more marketing / PR type people to E3 and hire random local agency staff for manning the booths.
That being said, I think we could still operate as an industry without GDC - and the GDC pass pricing (plus SF costs) end up pricing a lot of studios/developers out of going to GDC.
No games conference is necessary.
Should we still have E3? Yes. People are still attending (pre-pandemic) and watching the content in mass online.
People are over indexing on game sales really, seems like there’s Days Gone sales news everywhere & everyday at this point with conflicting information.
It was a good game that unfortunately got kinda swept aside by some lame reviews and Sony feeling it didn’t live up to the other exclusives.
Still hope we get a sequel one day.
Crazy. That's a huge achievement. Congrats to all involved.
Pretty cool. Mods are one of the things I wish they'd support better on console. PC is great for mods, but I don't really want to play all my games on PC.
Is it? Do we really need such accurate numbers - we're gamers, not investors.
Most tech companies/industries don't even report their HW sales numbers - the games industry is kinda unique because it got into this bad spot where hardware sales were everything for a while (which is no longer true).
The data above is enough for us to form our opinions and have our discussions.
Microsoft have always done poorly in Japan. The bigger story here is Sony being outsold 5:1 in their own backyard…
You lost me at “Wasn't Interested in Syphon Filter Reboot”
What about hardware sales, subscriptions, DLC, microtransactions - they all generate substantial amounts of revenue, some more than game sales do...
But if you're purely going off of the top 20 game sales in the UK, then congratulations to Nintendo on being the winner and completely smoking both Microsoft and Sony.