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[LordOcidax]

Oof at those PS5 hardware numbers. I am sure raising prices will definitely help those sales!

That strategy worked really well in Japan.

 

[nial]

How is the Death Stranding IP in Everybody's Golf tier of niche? Are we only going by sales?

Like others already said, it has ALL the hallmarks of cinematic single-player third-person story-driven AAA games that should appeal to many PS fans who like SIE's games in that same mold. It has a Hollywood cast rivaling or bettering Horizon Forbidden West's or God of War Ragnarok's. And like I said earlier in this very post, various similar game design elements too (combat loop, upgrade system, open world etc.).

On face value, DS2 is basically as close as you can get to a SIE AAA cinematic game without being one. Okay, maybe it's a couple degrees removed from something like GTA or RDR, but it's still much more similar to them than an Everybody's Golf. So it's natural to assume the game would be selling higher than the original launch-aligned, or at least doing par. Instead it's underperforming in virtually every region.

We can get into why it's underperforming (I gave my reasons above), but it underperforming is a fact at this point. It just is.

It's in term of sales. This talk is kind of meaningless when our biggest point of comparison (Death Stranding on PS4) didn't exactly do that much better. 'Underperforming' in relation to what, though? SIE's expectations (that we don't know of)? The same company that is publishing what is probably the last project directed by Hideo Kojima himself?

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Ignore

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Please no more DreamcastGuy pictures

Wonder why RDR2 is still selling so well on Xbox. Sale maybe? Next gen patch

 

[EN250]

Switch 2 reign starts now and nothing will beat it for a long ass time...

 

[mayham2199]

Very true, yet it doesn't mean it's the right thing. The next 2 year will show that they shouldn't bleed to much into PC or they risk losing their PS audience to PC.

I used to feel this way to but after going back to PC and trying to turn it into a console I don't have that same belief anymore. It's a headache and as much as PC users wants to try and make it seem like everything is just as easy as a console now, it's not. Can you imagine the average casual gamer finding out they have to fuck with their bios to play BF6? PC might one day be a viable alternative to console gaming for the casual gamer but right now it's not. I also don't really see the appeal for the average person who buys 1 or 2 games a year is.

 

[Woopah]

Switch 2 reign starts now and nothing will beat it for a long ass time...

I think PS5 will win the month GTA launches.

 

[EN250]

I think PS5 will win the month GTA launches.

Good point, probably the last month PS5 will be at the top, I don't see any other game helping with that

 

[mckmas8808]

Good point, probably the last month PS5 will be at the top, I don't see any other game helping with that

Sony is currently making games still too. The thing that hurts is the increased price. A new SpiderMan 3 on a $399 device would have went CRAZY!!!