Donkey Kong Bananza Direct has more views than PlayStation State of Play June 2025 and Xbox Games Showcase 2025.

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Live service is what dominates PS and Xbox ecosystem these days. No matter how much PS hardcore fans hyped Astro Bot, the reality is no one in that ecosystem cared and it sold about as much as low efforts Wii or 3DS ports on Switch did. While games like Donkey Kong Bananza will outsell that stuff on like day 1 on a minuscule install base. People don't buy classic games on Xbox or PS anymore, only caring about stuff like CoD.
Extremely Bold statement considering that Sony barely update any game sales.

Sadly most companies are not as transparent as Nintendo, that's why we have users still quoting very old game sales like the 10m. sold from The last of us part II or the 11m. from Niche-Man 2.

As for Astro-Bot, the game hasn't even reached a year old and it was 2.3m sold before being put on bundles, Sony seems to be very happy about so dunno where it will land when it's all done and finished.
 
It's obvious as to why.

Nintendo constantly feeds their nostalgic base with sequels/entries and in addition they also don't have to worry about pleasing a percentage of fans who prefer only western-centric games, because the only series that barely even qualifies as western-centric is Metroid.

Also, unfortunately for Sony, they will continue to receive an automatic 5-10% dislike every time some random twitter user mentions Bloodborne right before any new State of Play.

Seems the unsatisfactory rate is very high along Sony Playstation fans.
 
Not surprised. Donkey Kong Bananza looks legitimately phenomenal. Gonna be a smash hit fo sho and likely the best selling DK games of all time when all is said and done.

Been a good year for DK fans — DKCR in January, DK94 in March, and this in July.
 
no way, is he banned ? for what ?
He basically started spamming the same screenshot comparisons and the usual "berdter then Steemderck!" "durstoy Seriies S" in every single thread that mentioned Switch 2, even when they weren't about comparisons to other systems.
 
He basically started spamming the same screenshot comparisons and the usual "berdter then Steemderck!" "durstoy Seriies S" in every single thread that mentioned Switch 2, even when they weren't about comparisons to other systems.
i really think it took way to long for him to get banned, best late then never i guess
 
Good. Well deserved recognition

I haven't been this hyped for a Nintendo game since Odyssey and even then, the hype wasn't mental like my hype for this.
 
Tons of different channels were streaming and reuploading State of Play and Xbox Showcase, which wasn't the case to the same extent with this Nintendo Direct.

Check YT and look at the number of stream vods and videos with tons of views...

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... and many more. You would need to add up views from all of these videos to get a better idea.
 
I'll be the first to troll nintendo kids, but you have to admit this is a new game with a brand new gameplay and seemingly very fun ideas.
It is a welcome change from the remaster/remake hell us playstation playas are stuck in due to that sad clown hermen hulst.
 
DK Bananza had an extremely good video to showcase the game. To me its very GOTY and I can't think of any other game this year that will come close.
 
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I'm not a Nintendo fanboy. Actually, I often find Nintendo extremely lazy, and am baffled by how much glaze their drones lay on.

This is deserved. It's the most I've been convinced watching a game in a while. I think some of the art design is tryhard, but otherwise, everything is in place. It so easily could've been an Odyssey rehash, but it looks fundamentally different and suited around DK as a character.

Meanwhile, most of the games from both Sony and Xbox this NotE3 season look so ridiculously archetypal and tired, I wonder whether or not the studios seriously expect anyone to buy into their shit. I only wish this direct beat the shit out of the views for SGF showcase. But even then, I'm getting increasingly suspicious of Keighley's event numbers, claimed or evidenced (bots).

As someone that frequently shits on Ubisoft of the Wild, and its full priced DLC, rehash of the Kingdom. I dont see how people are shitting on this.

It just looks like a well crafted game, with plenty of features and interesting mechanics. A top tier single player experience, taking advantage of the newer hardware, what's not to like?

Its a trailer so shit could still go sideways, but if they actually deliver what they have shown i dont see why people are surprised by an appealing game drawing a bigger crowd than whatever the fuck Sony and Xbox shat out for there's.

Was it a bunch of survival and extraction shooters? I think i vaguely remember that.
 
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Tons of different channels were streaming and reuploading State of Play and Xbox Showcase, which wasn't the case to the same extent with this Nintendo Direct.

Check YT and look at the number of stream vods and videos with tons of views...

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... and many more. You would need to add up views from all of these videos to get a better idea.
Nintendo has around 2 million more views in European and Japan channels. That's the reason i used the biggest channel for comparison because it would be unfair to include other Nintendo official channels.

Nintendo Switch 2 direct on JP channel has 12.5m views and the highest concurrent viewers of all time for gaming show lol.
 
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At the moment any 1st party game from Nintendo, regardless of quality, would have that effect, even the trailer for the next PS2 looking Pokemon game would do it.

Xbox is like a virgin that discovered the joy of sex and became the town slut, giving it to anyone, and nobody gets excited about it anymore and Sony gave up gaming to do whale hunting expeditions that failed miserably and are now shifting their attention to weeaboo fondling.
Where are all those Drag X Drive and Welcome Tour fans claiming GOTY and crazy to see more of it?
 
Not surprising, the Feaux-3 shows were all objectively terrible, not even the fake rumor grifters could make up shit about them to feign hype. MS literally had their top executives telling people before hand it was going to be a shit show.
 
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Very mainstream things are more popular than less mainstream things, breaking.

Huh? Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are all basically the definition of mainstream. Huge corporations with near universal name recognition. There's nothing remotely niche about an Xbox Presentation or a State of Play.

These numbers are only giving part of the story though, since these presentations are generally streamed by multiple channels, and the difference between the State of Play and the Donkey Kong Direct isn't huge.

Still, great performance for a single game Direct. The next general Direct is probably going to do insane numbers.
 
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People are getting their Next Gen fix from Nintendo of all places, lol

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Laugh all you want, the only games worth playing are anything for creative talented smaller studios making games like Clair Obscura and Nintendo first parties.Everything else looks rudimentary like walking simulators, GAAS slop and souls likes (Even if I Iike some of those)
 
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Laugh all you want, the only games worth playing are anything for creative talented smaller studios making games like Clair Obscura and Nintendo first parties.Everything else looks rudimentary like walking simulators, GAAS slop and souls likes (Even if I Iike some of those)

I completely agree, what cracks me up is the hate and the tears around here. Seeing Nintendo succeed getting W after W is sending this place over the edge :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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