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well, not if you've played any of'm, imo...
FOMO hype for new IPs, and then people realize how boring their first party games are now.
That's what being 3 years on the market versus 8 years, no significant bundles AND no $40 discounts will do.
Being a cross-gen titles launching during the covid pandemic that caused massive PS5 shortages probably didn't help.
well, that's part of it, of course. but recent sony sequels have been almost uniformly too iterative. more than ever before, if you've already played the first game? you've pretty much already played the sequel...
The 3rd game will need to focus on someone other than Aloy.
Being cross-gen would help with sales, since even with PS5 shortages and low install bases, those games would have massive audiences on the PS4 to sell to. That's not really an excuse for this underperformance at all.
Wait what? The bundle was almost the only way to get a PS5 from 6/2022 to 11/2022 and before that many retailers wouldn't let you buy a PS5 without it.
Unless people were waiting to buy HFW for PS5, but couldn't get a PS5 and by the time they could, there were other games on their radar.
I think Ragnarok is selling faster.
All personal opinions, I don't think there's much to suggest that any of these games had bad WoM. Stuff sells overtime, Horizon Zero Dawn did not sell 25M units in just 3 years.
It doesn't really compare to how HZD was bundled in the later years of PS4.
I loved the first one with all the lore. The second game was like a Seattle simulator of constantly having to virtue signal and listen to retards. Killed the series for me, but the first was quite amazing with everything going on.
10 to 11 million isn't a big fall off from 25 million for the 1st game because the sells of the 1st game continued in the lifespan of the 2nd game the big thing is that they have sold over 38 million since 2017 that's only 8 years , KillZone was around since 2004 & might have sold 10 million all together.
Horizon: Zero Dawn sold 25 million copies
This leaves 13 million copies for:
Presumably 10-11 million of these are Forbidden West, and the remainder are split between the re-releases and spin-offs.
- Horizon: Forbidden West
- Horizon: Zero Dawn Remastered
- Horizon: Call of the Mountain
- Lego Horizon Adventures
But even so, that's an incredible fall of for Forbidden West, after an equally impressive performance for the first instalment in Zero Dawn
well, yeah. &, afa how these sequels sell over time? while stuff sells, some stuff just sells better than other stuff, eh? we shall see...
The PS Plus inclusion really cut off the title's legs imo.
They did that as a "gamepass" experiment to see how much it fucked sales. It did quite clearly.
To be fair to the sequels they've held their prices much, much better than the originals. The original Horizon, God of War, Spider-Man and GT Sport especially were less than £20 in the UK by their first Christmas then for years. The sequels have been mostly £40 or above so far or on PS Plus Premium.
they also put it on PS+ just a year after release and the insomniac leak shows them lamenting how it basically killed the sales of the game. They sold 8.3 million units in the first year, outpacing Horizon 1.
This actually hampered sales a bit according to Sony. IIRC they estimated they lost around $80 million in revenue due to the addition on ps plus.
One of my fave games ever, but then again Im a big fan of weird sci-fi.
Good marketing I guess. Robot dinosaurs are cool.
Why? Both of the games sold well. 11 million copies sold is very good and that's including the fact that they added it to PS+ extra after a year I think it was or close to a year. This was a studio that was making Killzone. I'm sure Sony is ecstatic that they are now selling games that can sell over 10m+.
Hey, probably sounded like I was shitting on it and wasn't meant to be that way. it's very cool the way the story has went but it was kind of a curve ball I think that maybe is too much for some people.
It's what sells to the lowest common denominator. Cash rules baby
