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[kaizenkko]

They will reveal the sales numbers tomorrow, and I bet they will be good.

 

[FoxMcChief]

 

[mdkirby]

Not exactly. There are households with family members who share games but it certainly is'nt like a game on a subscription, so it's not as far off in comparison to sales as that.

Has to be quite the minority tho, especially one week into a massive length 18 rated game like yotei. It really narrows the demographics of people who would be doing family sharing.

 

[ByWatterson]

They will reveal the sales numbers tomorrow, and I bet they will be good.

Source on this? I'm very curious.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

I didn't realize we had so many SP devs on here

 

[Karim]

I did not know the US PS5 install base was 80,200,000 PS5's, link to that data please.

Ok I want to play your game. Around 26440000 console sold in USA, 4,4% is 1163800 of players in the first week, is it bad now?

 

[Zathalus]

yeah I am sorry but do you believe that the 300m they spent on Spider-Man 2 was for licensing fees?? The game is literally a collaboration between Marvel and Sony who btw owns Spider-Man movie rights do you actually believe they took a 100m licensing fee?? This makes sense to you or you are snorting copium?

Well done on hyper-fixating on a single part of my post while ignoring the relative size of the studios and differences in salaries between the two locations. Most of the budget for any AAA release is spent on staff salaries which for Sucker Punch would be close to a quarter of what Insomniac has to spend. Even the Licensing fee you dismiss out of hand is not some trivial amount either, Sony doesn't have the videogame licensing for these characters, and after the enormous success of the first game Disney is going to want their cut. Another factor for the costs ballooning over the first Spider-Man game (which were in the leaked documents), lots of bonuses (retention is important) and such due to the takeover from Sony.

So yes, the confirmation from the game director that the budget for GoY hasn't massively ballooned from the first one holds weight.

 

[Karim]

Thought about this. People just want to validate it.

Idk if the sales are better or worse than Tsushima. But one thing is certain, the general perception of this game is worse than Tsushima's.

The general perception there is it was worse even before the release to be fair.

 

[calico]

Anyway, I imagine the trend of Sony sequels selling less is continuing as they would just have come out and made an announcement if it was selling better.

It would be interesting to know for the 'first sequels' which went on to sell less in the long run than the first game in the franchise, how their launch performance compared to the first game.

My expectation is the sequels tend to do significantly better at launch, even if they don't match the first game's performance in the long run.

I supposed he talk PS5 Active Player base wich is close to 3.500 000. (80 000 000M of PS5)

It's US only, and 'Weekly Active Users', not Monthly Active Users or PS5 owners. Weekly is presumably a significantly lower number than Monthly.

It's unclear which players he's counting (PS5 only or more than that). He has given numbers like this for PS5 players only in the past, but he said so last time.

 

[Raven117]

The game is solid and very competent. It has fun minute to minute gameplay.

The story (and, lets call a spade a spade) and the main character could have been executed better.

With the smaller budget, I think Sony will be happy with the sales.

And that's pretty much all there is to say about that.

 

[Clear]

If the game didn't fail, the "boycott" did. And that's not an acceptable result for those who spent time and energy on the topic. The whole point of a boycott that goes beyond a personal decision is to prevent a certain product/idea from succeeding, in order to send a message. So until sales numbers are actually out, why give up?

Boycotts, especially politically motivated ones are utterly toothless.

Basic fact is, if a person was already interested would the comments of a single dev really put them off to the extent that they'd deny themselves of something fun?
And conversely, its awfully convenient for someone with zero interest to farm a bit of clout by jumping in on the boycott.

Its completely performative either way to take part in such a meaningless "action".

 

[Karim]

It's unclear which players he's counting (PS5 only or more than that). He has given numbers like this for PS5 players only in the past, but he said so last time.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

Or he could give us a direct comparison to Ghost of Tsushima instead of this roundabout way of saying it didn't sell as well as the previous entry. If it did, Sony and Sucker Punch would have said so, and Matt would have shouted it out from the rooftops of the eco chamber, Bluesky. Thanks for confirming the obvious that the "Chuds" won.

There were more PS4 owners when Tsushima launched than there are PS5 owners now so this comparison is a bit off.

 

[ReBurn]

12th is practically 1st if you don't count the other 11.

 

[Karim]

12th is practically 1st if you don't count the other 11.

 

[Moriarty1889]

Sony using MS metrics for games as well now.

 

[semiconscious]

4.4% of an unknown number being compared to 4.4% of a different unknown number...

& that's what makes for effective game journalism...

 

[Insanemaelstrom]

Sony using MS metrics for games as well now.

Circana*. Sony hasn't talked about sales yet.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Sony using MS metrics for games as well now.

So you just ran to post that in here and didn't realize the data didn't come from Sony?

 

[Kilau]

I played it with my $1 free trial of Ubisoft+ on Game Pass Ultimate via the Epic store. So take these numbers with a grain of sand.

 

[Thief1987]

Account sharing should be factored into it aswell. Almost everyone I know account shares.

Players is a bullshit metric.

It should be factored in the GoT players numbers too, no?