What are you trying to argue here dude? The first game sold a million copies in a year between PC and PlayStation. Game didn't crack the top 100 as a sequel. You think this did well in any way shape or form? Even with the gamepass caveat. It's pretty clear this game bombed REALLY hard.
Yeah, I find it difficult to believe that many people who want to play it still don't own it by now ... it's crazy
And Colt said that Hellblade 2 was the ultimate single player experience.
They obviously believed in it enough to reveal it with the new console. That's why I thought it would be bigger, better and more "mainstream" than the first one. But it was just more of the same with pretty graphics.
From the outset, it just seemed like an obscure IP with limited appeal, as it proved to be.
Yeah, I hope so. I really like the look of it, puzzle solving, etc. I just feel like 1st person melee and whipping looks clumsy and isn't going to be great. FIngers crossed
I doubt Indiana Jones will do much better than HB2.
They are teaching their customers not to buy games at launch. I guess people are just learning fast? Also games are still fucking expensive in Europe. Too expensive for many.
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Was wondering about that since people were cheering about pre-orders trending.It was released in April and didn't even chart in the top 10.
I guess the game underperformed in Europe. Chris didn't even mention it in the article.
PC and console game sales fall in Europe over April as major releases dry up | European Monthly Charts
Fallout 4 tops the charts in Europe but sales take a tumble
Whaaaaat? You crazy.
People said the same when I said they should've lowered their expectations for HB2.
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HB2 is boring though. At least Indiana should be fun (and is a good IP, though that last movie was dog shit).
Going by the trailers? Seemed basic as hell and graphically it's hit and miss. Animations are basic as well. It'll mostly have to rely on nostalgia.
Even if it's a bad game it should still do better than HB2 IMO. That's barely a game.
Can't argue with that.
That a game that is on gamepass, that is a sequel of a game that was not on gamepass and sold poorly, should sell ZERO copies. Is it clear enough now? Simple logic.
I agree with you. But I do believe that a named-IP will help the game perform quite a bit better than Hellblade 2.
I don't. They are very different games, Indy has way more mainstream appeal. But it probably won't sell gangbusters because of Game Pass.
Younger millennials and Gen Z hardly know who Indiana Jones is.
Depends how they market it. People want to play games that look fun. Hellblade II didn't (and was barely a game either).
You may be right about Indiana Jones outselling Hellblade 2 due to brand recognition alone, but I think Avowed is another disaster waiting to happen for MS in 2024 (if it's not delayed to 2025)
Don't blame Ninja Theory, blame their owner and publisher, Microsoft, who approved this project. This was the first game announced for Xbox Series X (Series S itself would be announced months later) and Microsoft clearly wanted something to flex the console's capablities with. From what I've seen and read, Ninja Theory delivered what was expected in that regard, with Hellblade II being an Unreal Enging 5 showcase.
This is not unlikely at all. But Microsoft have themselves to blame. Their customers have been told the past seven years they don't need to buy first party games, just get a GP subscription. And there's been lots of ways to get access to 70USD games for just one dollar. The notion that Game Pass would make people spend more is just silly. I wonder if it was ever true.
Because people hyped up the visuals for years, so they needed to polish it as much as they could.
Xbox is on life support but Microsoft Studio's is very much alive. They want to control the software and they are well underway to achieve just that. They tried to bully the market with hardware but that did not work out for them. Software is timeless and can run on everything. And when you own all software and their stores you run the gaming business. Steam is the last big hurdle to take to have complete control. (Sony and Nintendo will slip up a generation eventually) When Gabe dies or leaves Steam, MS will make the stock owners a deal they cannot refuse.
They do this already; Starfield launched on GamePass 7 days after the release day. Forza Motorsport launched on GP 5 days later.
Yeah, this is not going to happen… Especially in EU…
I feel like big part of the original Hellblade was how it was developed: self-funded and self-published. Ninja Theory talked about it a lot, "triple-A indie", they wanted other independent devs to follow their lead. I even bough it partly because of that, just to support the devs. At the same time Housemarque was doing a similar thing: self-publishing Nex Machina after a long partnership with PlayStation. I bought that one too (that's actually a fun game to play, btw!). And what did we get in return of supporting the indies? Ninja Theory was straight out acquired by Microsoft, while Housemarque went through "arcade is dead, we are now making a battle royale" phase, before eventually getting bought out by Sony.
Yeah... um, there's one teensy problem with that plan...
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