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[Astray]

What's the split between those who purchases it seperatley and those who had to get it part of a bundle?

If they added in the bundle units then it would probably go to #1.

Monster launch from Nintendo tbh.

 

[Mr Moose]

How is it ridiculous? I'd guess the budgets were probably pretty close.

One is Doom and multiplat, the other is Death Stranding and not multiplat. Its a game about an Amazon delivery guy.

 

[Baemono]

Switch 1 selling more units in Xbox's best country during Switch 2's launch month?

Confused grandpas

« I said Nintendo Switch 2, you got me 2 Nintendo Switches »

 

[pulicat]

Death Stranding 2 didn't enter the top 20 for the year?

And it's pretty much done at this point for DS2's chance to enter the top 20 YTD.

Currently it's in the 26th place and it's going to be pushed out of top 30 YTD with the upcoming games like
1. College Football 26
2. NBA2k26
3. Madden 26
4. EA FC 26
5. New COD
6. New Pokémon
7. BL4
8. Ghost of yotei
9. DK Bananza

 

[Abysse]

Death Stranding 2 is a...

 

[mèx]

The Stellar Blade PC port seems to have performed quite well (we already know it hit 1M sales in 3 days).

It's impressive that Mario Kart managed to chart so high, given that bundle copies are not counted.

 

[Deerock71]

Confused grandpas

« I said Nintendo Switch 2, you got me 2 Nintendo Switches »

 

[drganon]

Dude, DS2 isn't even in the top 20 YTD lol. It failed to outsell $40 ER despite having higher MSRP on Revenue based chart.

Doom dark age managed to chart to the top 20 YTD during its launch week and Doom dark age is considered as a flop by many users here.

 

[tTHANOSs]

How is it ridiculous? I'd guess the budgets were probably pretty close.

Both very different games for different audiences.

 

[adamsapple]

And it's pretty much done at this point for DS2's chance to enter the top 20 YTD.

Currently it's in the 26th place and it's going to be pushed out of top 30 YTD with the upcoming games like
1. College Football 26
2. NBA2k26
3. Madden 26
4. EA FC 26
5. New COD
6. New Pokémon
7. BL4
8. Ghost of yotei
9. DK Bananza

I won't be surprised if Yotei doesn't burn the charts beyond its release weeks either.

 

[Astray]

How on earth is MKW third without counting the bundle? That's crazy that many people paid $20 more for a physical copy.

Nintendo is probably the #1 at IP and talent management in this industry. They carefully built up this title since the SNES days.

They knew exactly what they were doing with the bundle and launch titles. Which bodes well for other console players in the market too.

All things proved wrong but it just shows that pretending that DS is a mega IP is a false assumption.

If it was a mega IP then they wouldn't have given it to him later on. They clearly value their relationship with him over this specific IP that they can't possibly keep going without him anyways.

This title was mainly designed as an arthouse one, not mass-market.

 

[LordOcidax]

So was the original, actually the original was pushed much harder, it simply wasn't a big commercial success, the concept is niche.
It's an auteur game, like the Ueda games.
At some point there were rumors that because of the low sales of DS, Sony was not going to greenlight a sequel, they were parting ways with Kojima, Kojima was going Xbox.
All things proved wrong but it just shows that pretending that DS is a mega IP is a false assumption.
The sequel is doing well, it won't set new records or set the charts on fire, that's all.

Is the game is considered a Niche title, you are right then…

 

[Baemono]

I won't be surprised if Yotei doesn't burn the charts beyond its release weeks either.

While Shadows being still #3. So much for a flop

 

[Kacho]

And it's pretty much done at this point for DS2's chance to enter the top 20 YTD.

Currently it's in the 26th place and it's going to be pushed out of top 30 YTD with the upcoming games like
1. College Football 26
2. NBA2k26
3. Madden 26
4. EA FC 26
5. New COD
6. New Pokémon
7. BL4
8. Ghost of yotei
9. DK Bananza

It's clear the first game was too divisive. Time for Kojima to explore new ideas.

 

[Mr Moose]

I won't be surprised if Yotei doesn't burn the charts beyond its release weeks either.

You:

 

[LordOcidax]

It's clear the first game was too divisive. Time for Kojima to explore new ideas.

Do you think that MGS3 remake could sell more that DS2?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Another interesting tidbit from Piscatella:

 

[adamsapple]

@The Chairman before AC Shadows came out.

Fixed*

Another interesting tidbit from Piscatella:

 

[LordOcidax]

Another interesting tidbit from Piscatella:

Gamepass?

 

[Kacho]

Do you think that MGS3 remake could sell more that DS2?

Nah. There's way more interest in a new Kojima game by default IMO. Outside of enthusiast forums, no one cares about a remake of an old Metal Gear game.

 

[pulicat]

It's clear the first game was too divisive. Time for Kojima to explore new ideas.

Death Stranding isn't going to expand any further since the core gameplay loop is too niche and boring for the mass audience despite having more than 150m budgets.

 

[Kacho]

Death Stranding isn't going to expand any further since the core gameplay loop is too niche and boring for the mass audience despite having more than 150m budgets.

Didn't Kojima add more combat to the sequel in response to criticisms of the original game?

I remember Dunkey making like 3 videos on the first game because people were giving him shit for not getting it.

"Ok guys, I think I'm having fun now..."

lol...

 

[adamsapple]

Do you think that MGS3 remake could sell more that DS2?

It's entirely possible, for one it's on more platforms, for second, the MGS name still holds a lot of cache despite misfires like Survive.

 

[kaizenkko]

Death Stranding 2 was the best-selling game on the platform it was available on, and yet people still consider the idea that the game is doing poorly — with absolutely no basis for it.

But regardless of that, I think anyone with even the slightest common sense knows this game wasn't made to sell millions and millions.

 

[Baemono]

To the « Microsoft is happy to be at the third place » we heard over the years, now they managed to be 4th

 

[Mr Moose]

To the « Microsoft is happy to be at the third place » we heard over the years, now they managed to be 4th

 

[Killjoy-NL]

To the « Microsoft is happy to be at the third place » we heard over the years, now they managed to be 4th

Imagine sinking so deep, you even fail to become 3rd out of 3 competitors...

 

[leo-j]

So was the original, actually the original was pushed much harder, it simply wasn't a big commercial success, the concept is niche.
It's an auteur game, like the Ueda games.
At some point there were rumors that because of the low sales of DS, Sony was not going to greenlight a sequel, they were parting ways with Kojima, Kojima was going Xbox.
All things proved wrong but it just shows that pretending that DS is a mega IP is a false assumption.
The sequel is doing well, it won't set new records or set the charts on fire, that's all.

The original sold 5 million copies by 2021, and hit 20+ million players (post release to ps plus and directors cut re release) , although you can argue subscription downloads don't really count as sales, you can also argue the game is well past 5 million copies sold, which isn't that niche.

I WILL ARGUE:

GAAS is killing the big epic single player game. Hence why no growth over the first game seemingly. Spider-Man 2 , god of war rag, horizon 2, TLOU all imo have suffered a similar fate. Sorry but single player games sales for anything not on Nintendo is tragically down dramatically gen over gen, despite quality, and despite marketing. This is why Sony and others are so focused on GAAS.

 

[yogaflame]

Bitter and jealous haters of Ds2 age like milk.

 

[yogaflame]

To think DS2 sales surpassed Mario Kart World in the US! (If you ignore the 1M+ that bought the bundle at least).

And was release late June. For a so called niche and ps5 exclusive and against mighty Nintendo switch 2 launch, that was impressive.

 

[Deerock71]

Another interesting tidbit from Piscatella:

I imagine this was a huge jump in NSO subs. I picked up a year.

 

[LordOcidax]

And was release late June. For a so called niche and ps5 exclusive and against mighty Nintendo switch 2 launch, that was impressive.

 

[damidu]

Ds2 bitter and jealous haters age like milk.

this place consist of morons, who tried to convince everyone that shadows is a disaster in 50 separate threads.
and its tracking above fucking cod lol

 

[LordOcidax]

The original sold 5 million copies by 2021, and hit 20+ million players (post release to ps plus and directors cut re release) , although you can argue subscription downloads don't really count as sales, you can also argue the game is well past 5 million copies sold, which isn't that niche.

I WILL ARGUE:

GAAS is killing the big epic single player game. Hence why no growth over the first game seemingly. Spider-Man 2 , god of war rag, horizon 2, TLOU all imo have suffered a similar fate. Sorry but single player games sales for anything not on Nintendo is tragically down dramatically gen over gen, despite quality, and despite marketing. This is why Sony and others are so focused on GAAS.

100%… And people pretending that everything is fine is even worse.

 

[xenosys]

Death Stranding 2 is going to die a quick death. It's #2 on the monthly but doesn't feature on the yearly top 20.

 

[Flabagast]

Why are people cheering for DS2 not selling well ?

It's one of the best and most unique games this gen. Gamers can be so weird man

 

[yogaflame]

Why are people cheering for DS2 not selling well ?

It's one of the best and most unique games this gen. Gamers can be so weird man

Let me guess, bitterness,jealousy, not available in there preferred platforms?

 

[LordOcidax]

this place consist of morons, who tried to convince everyone that shadows is a disaster in 50 separate threads.
and its tracking above fucking cod lol

You are using a opposites examples

 

[damidu]

jeez! how do you fall behind switch1 in launch month of switch2, doesnt compute

Rankings
Units: NS2 > PS5 > NSW > XBS: "killl mee!"

 

[LordOcidax]

 

[adamsapple]

this place consist of morons, who tried to convince everyone that shadows is a disaster in 50 separate threads.
and its tracking above fucking cod lol

Don't attack my boy Kacho so directly like that

 

[Kacho]

Don't attack my boy Kacho so directly like that

Shadows sold less than 5 million globally in 4 months on the market. AssCreed 3 was over 12 million sold by that point. Get away from me with that cope.

 

[Success]

PeteBull and GymWolf , why are you hiding from this thread just because AssCreed Shadows is still 3rd YTD.

 

[pulicat]

this place consist of morons, who tried to convince everyone that shadows is a disaster in 50 separate threads.
and its tracking above fucking cod lol

DS2 is the opposite of AC Shadow.
AC Shadow opened at no.2 on the top 20 YTD chart while DS2 opened at no.26 and will be out of top 30 by the end of 2025.

 

[adamsapple]

Shadows sold less than 5 million globally in 4 months on the market. AssCreed 3 was over 12 million sold by that point. Get away from me with that cope.

Family of success.

 

[GymWolf]

PeteBull and GymWolf , why are you hiding from this thread just because AssCreed Shadows is still 3rd YTD.

Did i bullied you at school or run over your cat by any chance?

You seems very obsessed with me...

If you want my sexy pics with a leopard thong you just have to ask buddy, there is no shame

You even get the gaf member discount.

 

[SamuraiEdge]

Nintendo is da king baby.

 

[LordOcidax]

Nintendo is da king baby.

 

[DryvBy]

DS2 early access started from 23rd Jun for US.
Circana tracking period for Jun started from 1st Jun to 5th July.

13 days were tracked for DS2.

You seem big mad the walking simulator has fans.

 

[L*][*N*K]

How on earth is MKW third without counting the bundle? That's crazy that many people paid $20 more for a physical copy.

Yeah, I did that. I have collected every Mario Kart game ever you think I will not do that this time to save $20? And do what with it? Buy a dozen of eggs???