TGA stats: The Witcher 4 led in views and social media interactions, while Intergalactic ranked 10th despite heavy media coverage

Well, it was a very boring trailer. Nothing exciting happens. The chick with the eye patch is VERY poorly acted. They didn't say anything worth interest. Like why should I care about this Jordon person? Why should I care about this planet? Absolutely no gameplay, so who knows how it plays. Ooooo, she jumped with a light saber. That tells me very little and leaves me with nothing. I couldn't care less about her looks, I like fat chicks anyway,it was just a bad trailer.
 
So Fortnite with no media coverage besides some ad during the game awards, still had the most views

Incredible
 
analog_future said:
Wow! Virtua Fighter, Okami 2, Elden Ring Nightreign, Borderlands 4, Mafia: The Old Country, The Outer Worlds 2, Split Fiction, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Slay the Spire 2, Turok: Origins, Project Century, and Sonic Racing: Crossroads are already released??? Cool! Where can I play them?
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Seriously?

The point I was making was that say what you want about Intergalactic quality-wise, but at least it made the list of "most talked about" games as shown by the HUGE PICTURE IN THE OP!

Unlike the titles you just mentioned.

I was drawing attention to all the titles on the BIG PICTURE LIST being big known brands who's prominence is separate to the TGA's.

The inference being:

(1) long trailer shows basically do no favours promotionally for almost all the titles showcased on them.

(2) Just look at the titles on that top-ten picture list to see what sort of picture it paints of the industry.

(3) I also find it ironic how readily people buy in the most undisguised marketer's vision of what "success" is supposed to look like when it props up their own desire to a dunk on a thing,
 
thekillergreece said:
This is a bit unfair comparison.
The Witcher IP is already a popular IP. Millions played Witcher 3, watched the tv show, read books, etc. They know what is Witcher 4.
Intergalactic? It's a largely unknown IP that didn't show anything useful just yet.
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This didn't work for games that had new Studios with well known developers and it ain't gonna work here.
Intergalactic will be compared to ND's greatest hits.
TLOU2 had the momentum from TLOU & to an extent Uncharted 4 and benefited from it with sales at launch which eventually fall off once people knew (despite people being in denial of that) hell I even got the Deluxe Edition
But this is now following TLOU2 and you're seeing what faith they have in ND after TLOU2 and their first impressions of what ND has to offer in the future.
This is the reality which everyone saw and denied years ago and it's playing out just as expected.
Doesn't mean the game is going to be bad gameplay wise and won't look fantastic.
But just like that girl that's hot as fuck but is horrible & intolerable person.
It's not worth the squeeze.
 
A very popular franchise that has a tie in to a popular Netflix show got more social media coverage than a new IP that showed a 4-minute trailer with 4-seconds of game play?



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I think the game looks uninteresting to me, and I think there is something to be said about the split between media coverage and real engagement.
But based on that image it still seems to be one of the games that got the most engagement out of the actual new announcements. It only got beaten by Witcher and Elden Ring which makes sense as they are big and very popular IP.

It still got more engagement than Okami, Onimusha, that Fumito Ueda game, Turok, Virtua Fighter, etc
 
Crazy to see how high Indiana Jones is despite relatively low player counts. I'm really curious to see how it does on PS5.
 
It's all about brand recognition, intergalactic is still too new to the casual audience so that's why the interest wasn't high.

Witcher, Indy and Fortnite being the top games pretty much confirms this because those brands are very well known among the casual audience.
 
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The memes have been the coolest part. I still couldn't really care less about the main character's looks because to me that was the smallest of its issues. It looked like Returnal: Hollywood. I have no idea if that'll be true in the end but top to bottom, it reminded me of a seriously generic "blockbuster" spin on Returnal.

That's not even getting into how corny and forced the now-generic retro SciFi and dumbass insubordinate, smug MC shtick is. It's like ND threw a dartboard at random acceptable mainstream tropes and this is what they landed on. Then there's the goofy product placement, the insanely boring and generic robot enemy design, the miserable Zoomer dialog.

I'll reserve full judgment until I see some full gameplay because TLoU2 is one of my favorite games of the past few years purely gameplay-wise. Right now it looks painfully trite and corny though.
 
Yoboman said:
You guys are in a bubble

TikTok, Insta, FB have been very positive.
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Bots and non-buyers. Sorry, but a new ND IP should be the talk of the town for the month, and in a positive way. This is bad news.

But something tells me Druckmann doesn't care.
 
I mostly care about video views. 6 million vs 48 million is insane.

I like that ND is doing a new IP but holy shit, what a disaster of reveal when you are only on par with tekken 8 dlc on views alone. Awful trailer. Awful reveal. Lets hope they can salvage it with some truly next gen gameplay at E3. Still, fire everyone incharge of that trailer.

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Is it really surprising though?

They've been souring the brand for a few years now.

The whole Anita sarkeesian guff. Why anyone would want to touch that car wreck is beyond any sensible person

Tlou 2. Coming from the 1st, the game was a literal club to the teeth for die hard fans and more of a vessel for Neil's fever dream of a fan fic, plus the drama that came with it

The Tlou show. Love it or hate it, it was not what die hard fans expected. Yep, it got the fart huffers excited but it was all a bit meh.

Now this game, the culmination of all the above

Is it really any wonder? :unsure:
 
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Jinzo Prime said:
It's not an accurate title at all, is it?

OP you done goofed.
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He done goofed by saying Witcher lead by views too when it was Fortnite. The ranking where Witcher leads is based on number of posts on YouTube, x, facebook, tiktok.

Intergalactic didn't even have posts enabled on youtube and I bet that's where most of the posts for videos go anyway. Witcher 4 for example is up to 31K posts now just on youtube. not sure what it was at at 72 hours to get a feel for the ratio between youtube and the others but I'm sure there is a way if you're a datascraping wizard.
 
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I was always going to be more excited for a new Witcher game over anything that ND put out, regardless of the "politics" surrounding it. With that said it will be interesting if they really try and push an agenda within the story and make the main character a chore to play as. The market simply rejects these types of games outright as seen recently, and I can only see that being reinforced more as time goes forward and not less.
 
Unknown Soldier said:
Intergalactic trying to become the next Concord huh

Why isn't Sony Japan stepping in at this point, the SIE America studios are an ongoing catastrophe and everyone surely knows it by now after Concord burned hundreds of millions of dollars for literally no result
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Yall really trying to make Intergalactic into Concord, huh?
 
> release a boring as shit trailer where nothing happens besides a fucking phone call the main character being an marvel-esque annoying shit
> "wow this trailer is not getting much traction, what is happening"


Imagine revealing your new game, your new franchise with a trailer where two people have a phone call, lmao.
 
SJRB said:
> release a boring as shit trailer where nothing happens besides a fucking phone call the main character being an marvel-esque annoying shit
> "wow this trailer is not getting much traction, what is happening"


Imagine revealing your new game, your new franchise with a trailer where two people have a phone call, lmao.
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lol it's sounds so stupid when you put it like that. What a huge fuck up by Sony's marketing team.

WTF was Neil thinking too.
 
I'm sure the game will turn out fine for people who like Neil Druckmann games but the trailer was terrible. The Witcher 4 trailer was also bad compared to every single Witcher 3 trailer but that is an established IP with a huge fan base.
 
Fake said:
Witcher 3 popularity is what is making Witcher 4 hype train to move foward. No surprises. People expect the same level of competence and best writing Witcher 3 have because a little reminder that Witcher 3 did beat Bloodborne as a GOTY, so people are hype as fuck for good reason. Was a long time since the last Witcher game.
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Too bad the writers and directors of The Witcher 3 are no longer at CD Project. People don't yet realize that the team broke up during Cyberpunk.
 
yogaflame said:
This is a bit alarming for Intergallactic. As much as I'm impress with the graphics of intergalactic, I hope there will be some changes on character design (Hopefully there will be no woke agenda especially twisted gender ideology to be push or force in the game) It will be such a waste with all that technical beauty if the game will just flop due to some agendas being push or force.
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The Minute they showed the Minority with the butch hair cut talking to the girl boss, I knew it was over!
 
now I understand why everyone at work was talking about the Witcher 4, and no one was talking about intergalactic, also at the day care where my children attend when I am at work all the parents were talking about the Witcher 4 and they all were criticizing Neil druckmann choices and were all tired of his pandering and wokism. But that is not all at my chewing tobacco club we all agreed that Sony, ND are doomed and since all the above people are upset with Neil Druckmann Sony should fire him and cancel this concord wanna be. We will pray to god to end this betrayal to all what is good in gaming. Amen

And also my wife told me that pretty much all the hate this new Intergalactic game is getting is due to whinny bitches that haven't got over last of us part 2 didn't bomb. And the hbo series was a fucking world hit. So, i trew a tantrum and called my mom whom suggested i must divorce her and take the children with me and claim full custody.

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wtf is fancensus

by proper metrics Fortnite won, # of articles and # of social posts means nothing.
 
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Old ND games looked far more interesting that this boring reveal trailer with awful characters design, but even just considering the graphics, what ND shown with Uncharted 4/TLoU2 reveal trailer was so above everything else at the moment (even considering the downgrade) that you couldn't be unimpressed.

Intergalactic looked good, but absolutely comparable with everything already released this gen and a lot less impressive than the best looking games of this gen, like Wu Kong or Alan Wake 2. Probably the most impressive thing about the game will be the animations, but considering they shown zero gameplay, is fair the interest in the game is pretty low for ND standard.
 
yogaflame said:
This is a bit alarming for Intergallactic. As much as I'm impress with the graphics of intergalactic, I hope there will be some changes on character design (Hopefully there will be no woke agenda especially twisted gender ideology to be push or force in the game) It will be such a waste with all that technical beauty if the game will just flop due to some agendas being push or force.
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That is just hyperbole. It's not alarming at all and will sell loads, it's still Naughty Dog.

Outside of GAF character design is not as big of a deal as you're making it out to be.
 
FoxMcChief said:
Sony caved with changing the character model in infamous 2. I hope they do so again with Intergalactic.
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lol keep dreaming.

Helmet doesn't have the balls to have a discussion with drunkman, but someone is gonna say something sooner or later, dude think he is untouchable but we have a popular saying here in sicily, everyone is needed, no one is essential.

But we are gonna see the conseguences after the game release, the bald goblin is 100% locked.
 
Moriarty1889 said:
Let them crash and burn so maybe they wake the hell up and start designing better looking characters. They have gotten too big with their inflated egos.
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A character is way, way more than how they look. Especially in narrative driven games.

Is everyone a Tate watching 13yo around here all of a sudden?
 
Kenpachii said:
Intergalactic looked like a weak guardians of the galaxy rip off to me without the fun. So not surprising it got less traction.
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Fuck Disney-Marvel, everyone thinks they have invented everything, not even the witty one-liners are their doing

In that trailer the only stuff resembling to the "Disney Formula™" is the girlboss with her awful attitude and the use of some 80s band as bgm, everything else is a knockoff of Akira, Cowboy Bebop and Star Wars
 
March Climber said:
Just presume those posters have never played the games, same with the ones not knowing Ciri was being set up as a potential lead.
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Oooor, we just don't give a fuck about ciri for the most diverse reasons like finding her boring, or prefering a male witcher than can flirt with women or whatever it is.

Personally? I enjoyed the hell out of the 2 expansions partially because ciri was almost not there at all and the whole plot wasn't about searching for her ass, i vastly prefer the 2 dlc compared to the w3 vanilla story.

I know, not liking a character and not because she is a woman must be hard to understand for some.

Who gives a fuck if the game try to push her? Would you like borderlands 3 ava if the game pushed her as the new protagonist? No, people would still hate the fuck out of her no matter how hard the devs try to make her a thing.
 
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