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Christopher Dring: Astro Bot's UK opening week sales are 1/3rd lower than Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart
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Mownoc
Member
The last time we got a new very high quality 3d platformer was Mario Odyssey in 2017. Astro Bot is a game that's full of creativity, love and charm. It's very much a video game that's first and foremost about fun and joy.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Which is a success for a new studio making a game in a niche genre with all the media against it. I can't get this low-quality trolling, honestly.
Something similar applies to Astrobot, which is a niche genre for the PlayStation fanbase, unlike Mario in a Nintendo console.
Mownoc
Member
Yes I too like the part when Christopher Dring said sales were lower than expected and it wasn't just made up by the OP at all. The only correct thing in the title is "Christopher Dring" lmao.
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Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
In FY2021, physical for sony was 140,117 million yen and digital was 542,484 million yen
In FY23, physical was 193,439 and digital 660, 932 million yen.
mayham2199
Member
ChuckeRearmed
Member
I thought Astrobot would smash mario records or something 
According to online discourse at least.
According to online discourse at least.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Exactly.
You can see it in this very thread. It's not enough to have 98% positive Astro Bot sentiment here. They must find the 2% detractors and remove them.
They seek a purity in the population, as if that's healthy.
The artful mincer
Member
That thread was nonsense metacritic score absolutely does boost sales.
Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
4 people in my gaming circle are all waiting for it to come down in price. I think there's a lot of people sitting on the sidelines waiting to jump in when it's no longer $80.
*edit* I'm in Canada.
*edit* I'm in Canada.
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Bernardougf
Member
Absolutely.
Bernardougf
Member
Im going with a crazy wild guess here.. 1 you dont like prataformers that much and 2 you didnt played the game.
The Cockatrice
Gold Member
Nah, fact is, in most cases with popular names it has 0 impact such as FIFA or whatever. When it comes to indies, it may have an impact but not as much as ppl may think, there were cases here when they matter shit at all. Astro Bot is somewhere in the middle but it does have good marketing and we are lacking in great games so it has long legs until Sony's next release which is fuck knows.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Well if you follow the online discourse then FF7R sold more than GTA and moved more consoles than a price cut....
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
So in 2021, digital was about 20% and in 2022, digital accounted for 22%?
Are my numbers off or did digital actually grow since 2021...making the Astro Bot sales figures look worse?
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kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Sony should go back to announcing games at least a year in advance of the launch date. There's a lot less hype about their titles these days.
Interfectum
Member
You created a troll post and now play the victim because of the hostility? fuck off man. hopefully you get banned soon.
Zacfoldor
Member
Honestly, this game will have great legs too.
Also, just like John Wick, this game will generate FOMO, so by the time the sequel comes out it will double in sales.
This game is so good it has created a franchise. That's what you short cheese people can't see yet with your confirmation bias and your jumping to conclusions.
You will see though. When part 2 comes or when you finally understand the legs this game will have.
Also, just like John Wick, this game will generate FOMO, so by the time the sequel comes out it will double in sales.
This game is so good it has created a franchise. That's what you short cheese people can't see yet with your confirmation bias and your jumping to conclusions.
You will see though. When part 2 comes or when you finally understand the legs this game will have.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
How on earth is an Astro Bot sales thread a troll post?
Like, what are we doing man?
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
If you order it on Amazon.co.uk right now, you won't get it until the 23rd...
It's out of stock at SimplyGames. Tesco stopped selling games a year ago because gamers were moving towards digital.
While OP is astroturfing and despite the exaggeration, the real issue remains Chris Dring who makes the most odd comparisons for no "apparent" reason. Who easily could have waited until digital sales were available before commenting and should have full knowledge that physical is in decline... and that Astro Bot has sold out at some retailers.
Sintoid
Member
That's what I meant with "budget"
Interfectum
Member
You made up figures and misquoted... like what are you doing man?
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Mownoc
Member
"Lower than expected" Where did this quote in the title come from? Lower than who expected? It seems you just want to paint this as negatively as possible because you champion GAAS over single player titles.
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Vick
Gold Member
He's the fucking worst.There's not many things that scare me. But a person that champions GAAS and jumps to shit on a delightfully refreshing title like Astro Bot...
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
Sony has better metrics than us on this. I wouldn't come to this conclusion based on what Dring actually said or what the OP tried to mislead people into believing with this thread.
Sony probably realizes that they can save considerable budget by marketing less, meaning games don't need to sell as much to account for grandiose marketing budgets and that they can sell more organically, even if it comes at the cost of slower initial sales.
Bernardougf
Member
Gaas boy trying hard to throw shade at an excellent single player game... im shocked
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I genuinely read "1/3rd of" rather than "1/3rd less". If I believed that, then for the next couple of minutes of my thread creation..."Sales lower than expected" would have been more reasonable.
That being said, I still think it was somewhat reasonable considering how far out of hand Astro Bots perceived commercial success was here. Some of ya'll were saying some pretty ludicrous things.
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nowhat
Member
That's one way to imply someone has a tiny brain.
Markio128
Gold Member
The game came out 3 days ago and we have no idea how it performed worldwide, and in digital format. It’s a bit early for ‘I told you so’.
willothedog
Member
Suprising considering it was cheap in the UK from a couple of retailers for physical. £50 from Argos and £47 from gamecollection.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Perfectly said!
ozz ex machina
Member
It's not a very big IP and who the fuck buys physical? This game will have long legs if its as good as reviews claim they are.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Black Myth: Wukong
The physical sales where around the same as Concords give or take a percentage of overall sales. But the digital sold like hotcakes.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
That's reasonable.
But where were you two days ago when people were implying Astro Bot was a huge commercial success and the way forward for PlayStation to grow?
Zacfoldor
Member
I mean, to be fair Astro is probably going to win goty and the sales of the most recent goty winners has been solid.
The only thing in competition at the moment is Rebirth and without spoilers, there is one region later on that takes it out of the competition.
Perhaps Nintendo can pull off a minor miracle with its Links Awakening remake asset flip(and they very well could) but I'm not seeing a lot of goty competition for astro later in the year, so I think it will win.
Elden Ring can't win because it's dlc. Nintendo could win, but Astrobot probably will.
Elden Ring sales surge attributed to The Game Awards win
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Has there ever been a goty winner with bad sales, since goty became Geoff?
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Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
I have tempered expectations on its short to mid term sales potential, but what you're doing is entirely out of pocket.
I think this game will sell between 5-7 million units, unless it hits some level of the zeitgeist that compels people who normally wouldn't buy platformers to buy this OR it compels parents to buy for their kids in numbers that are not normal.
5-7 million would be an absolute success.
10 million sounds pretty far-fetched given the current make up of the PlayStation userbase. It'll definitely have long legs though, especially if it wins GOTY and drops in price to say 40 USD. This is likely to be a game people buy for years. And when it has eventually dropped to say 20 USD, it very well may have hit those far-fetched numbers.
For Astro Bot to have REAL crazy levels of success, the PS5 has to come down drastically in price AND it would need some transmedia push where Astro Bot reaches Minions level popularity. I'd be stunned if there are no talks at PlayStation Productions and Sony Pictures Animation about a movie.
clarky
Gold Member
I'm getting its second only behind Space Marine on Amazon UK. Seems to be doing pretty good.
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FFS, he’s comparing two family type games, both PS exclusives. Not everything has to be a conspiracy
Was he supposed to compare it to sales of GOW Ragnarok?
XXL
Member
This is ridiculous. No one is seeking purity.
You editorialized a tweet, gave incorrect information, took information from said tweet and extrapolated that the game is a failure with a minimal amount of data.
You know what's unhealthy? Not admitting you made a mistake, blaming others instead and then proceeding to play the victim.
