Sony senior VP: “ We are moving away from a hardware centric business model.”
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CoolinInTheCut
Superstar
This coping feels familiar
All of this is a repeat of MS and Xbots in 2018
Concord was a wack game even on console. I’m talking heavy hitters yes those games did great it only shows how much better they would have done if the released day and date or closer too.
This is lies.
theres lots of big games that dont come to console, or they take a long time to do so.
Reality is steam has more “exclusives” than all the consoles combined.
That reality just doesn’t fit inside the console wars context, so we pretend it ain’t real
but that's the point, a wack game is a wack game if drops day 1 or day 500.
Metaphor released everywhere day 1 and as of June sold 2 million while Claire Obscure sold 3.3 million in 33 days. Both RPG games, both released everywhere yet sold drastically different. It's not an open/shut case of release day 1 everywhere to get guaranteed sales. Sometimes a specific demographic is heavy on one platform. FF XVI sold Ice Spice numbers on Xbox after cats was talking about they need to drop everywhere. The people talking ain't vote with they wallets.
How many big games dropped on Steam within the last year that's not on PS5? The word "Most" got you in a sharpshooter.This is lies.
theres lots of big games that dont come to console, or they take a long time to do so.
Reality is steam has more “exclusives” than all the consoles combined.
That reality just doesn’t fit inside the console wars context, so we pretend it ain’t real
Ok but games like those Metaphor and Clare Obscure obviously would have sold less if it was released on one platform though so those needed to be multiplat. Square was complaining how making Final Fantasy 16 and Rebirth didn’t sell to their expectations on console. It performed shytty on console which made it sell like trash once it came to pc. Look at monster hunter wilds it had trash performance but still sold well with a multiplatform release.
David_TheMan
Banned
um. so will sony and ms start licensing out hardware manufactures for their infrastructure?
Theoretically you could have asus, hp, or any hardware manufacture making hardware to run their shyt, even both, which seems ideal.
Theoretically you could have asus, hp, or any hardware manufacture making hardware to run their shyt, even both, which seems ideal.
Your idea of a “big” game is skewed by your perspective.
Theres lots of 2 milly+ selling games on steam that didnt launch on consoles day one.
More than i could even name right here.
Stan babble.
How many games sold over 2 million on steam alone, just a few examples if you can.
SupaHotIce
All Star
Sony fumbled hard. They had all the hype and 0 competition, and they let scalpers go wild for 2 years.
One chunk is comfortable sitting on PS4 with crossgen releases and another chunk is on Steam for the next gen experience.
Steam concurrent users in:
2018 - 18.5M
2019 - 19M
2020 - 24.5M
2022 - 28M
2025 - 40M
One chunk is comfortable sitting on PS4 with crossgen releases and another chunk is on Steam for the next gen experience.
Steam concurrent users in:
2018 - 18.5M
2019 - 19M
2020 - 24.5M
2022 - 28M
2025 - 40M
Look at Dragon's Dogma 2, a game that also is from Capcom and was released everywhere that sold WAY less than that(Monster Hunter Wilds which sold already 10 million) despite releasing everywhere. Again, "day 1 everywhere" is not suddenly a recipe for success. Dragon's Dogma 2 sold 3 million across in almost a year despite being on 3 systems. There's other factors at play which is all I'm saying.
FF XVI didn't sell shytty on consoles, it sold 3 million in one week. Claire Obscure sold 3.3 million in over a month across three platforms. Square's comments on "not meeting expectations" is a loaded statement that has been said for virtually all of their releases since the last decade.
Tomb Raider has sold 3.4 million copies, failed to hit expectations
3.4 million copies of Tomb Raider have been sold in four weeks, publisher Square Enix has revealed, which is not enough…
www.eurogamer.net
It's why the discussion around Rebirth and XVI's sales have been pointless as nobody knows what their "expectations" are neither does anyone know the cost of the game and how much it sold exactly to see if it turned up a profit.
Co-Op Game Quietly Breaks Publisher Record With 114492 Players On Steam
Peak breaks a new Steam record.
screenrant.com
And this is Just in the last couple days.
There’s lots of these games in steam.
Your stan bubble is a very small part of the games industry
A viral game that cost $7.99 is your argument?Co-Op Game Quietly Breaks Publisher Record With 114492 Players On Steam
Peak breaks a new Steam record.
And this is Just in the last couple days.
There’s lots of these games in steam.
Your stan bubble is a very small part of the games industry
