Which will be more successful: marathon or duskbloods?

Which will be more successful ?

  • Marathon

  • Duskbloods

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justiceiro

justiceiro

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So, we have those two games coming from prominent developers, but both are perhaps stepping out of their confort zone.

Bungie is that developer that everyone complains but play theirs games no matter what.

From software seems to be trying more and more to make their games more multiplayer focused and it has this legion of fans that believe they can do no wrong.

So, tell me, what you all actually think of how those games will perform.
 
I'll go Marathon.

I'm not convinced there'll be a huge audience for Duskbloods on Switch 2, and even for people within that audience I'm not sure the majority will be sold on a multiplayer-only title.
 
This is a tricky question to answer, because I think that Marathon has both a much lower possible floor and a much higher possible ceiling than The Duskbloods. If a time traveler from the future told me that Marathon was a catastrophic failure that lead Sony to dramatically "restructure" Bungie, I would believe it. Likewise, if they told me that it was a Destiny-level hit that generated billions of dollars in revenue and still had an active player base a decade after release, I would buy that too. I think most of the likely outcomes fall somewhere much closer to the midpoint between those two extremes, but I don't think there's much certainty at all about how things will turn out.

Meanwhile, there really is no plausible future where the fate of The Duskbloods imperils FromSoft or where the game joins Mario Kart and Animal Crossing atop the Switch 2 best sellers list. Best case scenario is probably a Splatoon-esque surprise hit (though I'd be truly shocked if it outsells Splatoon 4), while worst case scenario is probably a mildly disappointing sales performance and a small cult following (a la Bayonetta).

I ended up voting for Duskbloods, because I think it's more likely to be a success *relative to expectations*, but if OP had asked "which game will have the higher peak player count?" I would have gone with Marathon.
 
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EverydayBeast said:
We'll see, I don't think either will be someone's favorite game.
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blacktout said:
This is a tricky question to answer, because I think that Marathon has both a much lower possible floor and a much higher possible ceiling than The Duskbloods. If a time traveler from the future told me that Marathon was a catastrophic failure that lead Sony to dramatically "restructure" Bungie, I would believe it. Likewise, if they told me that it was a Destiny-level hit that generated billions of dollars in revenue and still had an active player base a decade after release, I would buy that too. I think most of the likely outcomes fall somewhere much closer to the midpoint between those two extremes, but I don't think there's much certainty at all about how things will turn out.

Meanwhile, there really is no plausible future where the fate of The Duskbloods imperils FromSoft or where the game joins Mario Kart and Animal Crossing atop the Switch 2 best sellers list. Best case scenario is probably a Splatoon-esque surprise hit (though I'd be truly shocked if it outsells Splatoon 4), while worst case scenario is probably a mildly disappointing sales performance and a small cult following (a la Bayonetta).

I ended up voting for Duskbloods, because I think it's more likely to be a success *relative to expectations*, but if OP had asked "which game will have the higher peak player count?" I would have gone with Marathon.
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PAID BILIONS FOR MARATHON ANNNNND BUNGIES DUSKBLOODS MORE SUCESSFUR IF IT SELL 10 COPY
 
They're both going to be a disaster. Marathon just fucking sucks and Duskbloods is a Switch2 exclusive.

I still can't believe FROM decided to make their next IP a Switch2 exclusive. What a colossally retarded move.
 
Marathon is a big budget game that'll be available to a consumer base of hundreds of millions, have many many sales over the years, and will presumably some day make its way to PS+.

Duskbloods will be a game with a niche audience released on a single console that doesn't yet have a large base. It'll likely never receive a substantial sale.

It's no contest.
 
SJRB said:
They're both going to be a disaster. Marathon just fucking sucks and Duskbloods is a Switch2 exclusive.

I still can't believe FROM decided to make their next IP a Switch2 exclusive. What a colossally retarded move.
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I am pretty sure that Nintendo paid for that…
 
I think Marathon have this. Even after all this, I still can't discount Bungie ever till I see their first legit failure.
 
Walter Matthau said:
Marathon is a big budget game that'll be available to a consumer base of hundreds of millions, have many many sales over the years, and will presumably some day make its way to PS+.

Duskbloods will be a game with a niche audience released on a single console that doesn't yet have a large base. It'll likely never receive a substantial sale.

It's no contest.
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That market is already saturated and people already hate that game… Meanwhile for Duskbloods could be a great game at the end and there's not be many game to choose by that time, especially in Asia for the Switch 2.
 
SJRB said:
But FROM still accepted this deal. The payout must be astronomical because a new FROM game would sell gangbusters on PS and PC.
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Thats the business of third party devs… Money is money, look at the Bayonetta series, Nintendo keeps funding that series despite the low sales. That's an advantage that Nintendo have and is great for the more mature audience of the Switch, they can loose money in one franchise but they can make a fuck tone of money in other.
 
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nintendo pay millions annnnnd make switch onlines more populard for HARDCORE sony pay billions for maracrud ahahaha
 
GigaBowser said:
nintendo pay millions annnnnd make switch onlines more populard for HARDCORE sony pay billions for maracrud ahahaha
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Sony follows more the trends of the industry more than Nintendo, that's not bad from a business standpoint but the issue here is that the FPS segment is too saturated and the PlayStation fan base has become to negative at same time. Sony put the bar too high in the PS3 - PS4 Era.
 
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If Marathon meets a few minimum requirements, it will already be much more successful than Duskbloods, a multiplayer game from FROM that no one asked for and that is also only coming out on Switch 2.
 
Duskblood sounds like it will be dead or will have a very small community after 6 months. (Just like Neightrein, except that one is at least co-op only).

Marathon I could see being a mild success for a year or two before it dies.
 
Duskbloods is more of an unknown and doing something different, more exciting that way. I still don't think it will do that well, if at all.
 
? Yea...Marathon by default

It will be on much more systems, Bungie has knocked out all of their major FPS out of the park and even selling on the low end, by default it will likely move much more units then Duskbloods

LordOcidax said:
That market is already saturated and people already hate that game…
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People hated AC Shadows online and the game is currently number 1 on NPD...so.....hating something doesn't mean its not going to sell.

You can go online and see a sea of Youtubers with default "Shockface" screaming at the screen for attention on literally every major AAA game, like COD or AC or Madden etc, yet those IP still move millions of units.

Some of you literally tried to argue a Call Of Duty would fail based on downvotes, yet are very, very silent about it moving massive units, wasn't Far Cry 5 suppose to be "hated" too and the game is the best selling Far Cry?

My point is, how much correlation actually exist from someone crying about some shit online, to actually millions of sales lost? The very market you are talking about, is literally dominated by Bungie in the first place lol, thats like saying Mafia Old Country will release and some other open world games, OMG the market is already saturated and people HATE GTAVI so it will fail....

Does it matter how much games are in a genre, to a developer that is one of the pioneers and is dominating that market? Do the millions that actually, really play those games care about any of this?
grvg said:
At risk of sounding insensitive, id go on a limb and say GaaS slop is well within bungies comfort zone.
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^ This.

This is in the teams normal area of familiarity and the fans of this genre will have no issue buying such a game. I'm not even the biggest fan and even I'm planning on buying Marathon.

If From Soft was making some single player RPG, on PS, PC, XB etc, then I'd say sure, they will be firing on all cylinders, but shit making it ONLY on Switch 2, already has the smallest install base by default and is literally in the area the team is not known for..

I don't think many people us logic here and simply seem to use this Poll to attack games they dislike with very little logic and reasoning behind their choice.
 
EDMIX said:
? Yea...Marathon by default

It will be on much more systems, Bungie has knocked out all of their major FPS out of the park and even selling on the low end, by default it will likely move much more units then Duskbloods


People hated AC Shadows online and the game is currently number 1 on NPD...so.....hating something doesn't mean its not going to sell.

You can go online and see a sea of Youtubers with default "Shockface" screaming at the screen for attention on literally every major AAA game, like COD or AC or Madden etc, yet those IP still move millions of units.

Some of you literally tried to argue a Call Of Duty would fail based on downvotes, yet are very, very silent about it moving massive units, wasn't Far Cry 5 suppose to be "hated" too and the game is the best selling Far Cry?

My point is, how much correlation actually exist from someone crying about some shit online, to actually millions of sales lost? The very market you are talking about, is literally dominated by Bungie in the first place lol, thats like saying Mafia Old Country will release and some other open world games, OMG the market is already saturated and people HATE GTAVI so it will fail....

Does it matter how much games are in a genre, to a developer that is one of the pioneers and is dominating that market? Do the millions that actually, really play those games care about any of this?

^ This.

This is in the teams normal area of familiarity and the fans of this genre will have no issue buying such a game. I'm not even the biggest fan and even I'm planning on buying Marathon.

If From Soft was making some single player RPG, on PS, PC, XB etc, then I'd say sure, they will be firing on all cylinders, but shit making it ONLY on Switch 2, already has the smallest install base by default and is literally in the area the team is not known for..

I don't think many people us logic here and simply seem to use this Poll to attack games they dislike with very little logic and reasoning behind their choice.
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Those are well known franchises… Its not the same at all.
 
LordOcidax said:
Those are well known franchises… Its not the same at all.
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And Destiny was a new IP in market against other FPS titles and went on to break many records for Bungie...

The point is merely that you are saying this about a developer that is part of that saturation, they are not merely nobodies in that field to act as if some other fucking FPS is suppose to deter them from releasing a title like that

Would be like fucking saying Rockstar shouldn't put out a open world title cause other open world titles.... They do that concept well, thus they are correct to put a game out as people will listen to developers like that, just like we would support some Fromsoft SINGLE PLAYER RPG game based on their history of actually doing that well.
 
Based on marketing alone, Marathon will make more money, but is less likely to break even (funnily enough).
But I'm under de impression The Duskbloods will be a better game that will satisfy it's niche much more. Not that what they are attempting is as crowded as a market as extraction shooters....
 
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EDMIX said:
And Destiny was a new IP in market against other FPS titles and went on to break many records for Bungie...

The point is merely that you are saying this about a developer that is part of that saturation, they are not merely nobodies in that field to act as if some other fucking FPS is suppose to deter them from releasing a title like that

Would be like fucking saying Rockstar shouldn't put out a open world title cause other open world titles.... They do that concept well, thus they are correct to put a game out as people will listen to developers like that, just like we would support some Fromsoft SINGLE PLAYER RPG game based on their history of actually doing that well.
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Destiny was hyped by almost everyone since second zero…
 
SJRB said:
They're both going to be a disaster. Marathon just fucking sucks and Duskbloods is a Switch2 exclusive.

I still can't believe FROM decided to make their next IP a Switch2 exclusive. What a colossally retarded move.
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If it were Xbox exclusive ... then your argument would make clear sense. But doing a Switch 2 exclusive - for the current market leader! - is dumb?
 
Marathon will have a far bigger userbase. I think Duakbloods is H1 2026 so they'll be less than 25 million Switch 2s out there.

SJRB said:
But FROM still accepted this deal. The payout must be astronomical because a new FROM game would sell gangbusters on PS and PC.
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The payout was Nintendo funding the game.

It's like Astral Chain, the game only exists because of Nintendo.
 
Hard to say, both bungie and fromsoft have rabid fanboys that are gonna buy everything from them.

Duskbloods ultimately looks slightly better but marathon is gonna be the only extraction shooter for nobs on console and it's gonna be multiplatform so maybe the bungie game...
 
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Can we just admit that both duskbloods and elden ring nightreign are pure junk. Like who asked for these two games seriously. Nightreign is just throwing all these bosses at you from the souls universe and it feels like a janky mess that a modder would come up with in his free time. Unoriginal and also boring with 0 creativity to it.



Duskbloods is just bloodborne if you took all the heart and soul from bloodborne and smashed it into a million pieces and made it online only. No one asked for online only bloodborne because bloodborne is legendary based off it's single player mode!!! This game seems pointless and directionless in every single way imaginable.


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Wouldnt it be more fair to compare Marathon with NightReign, as both are multiplatform and both are releasing this year.
DuskBloods is Switch 2 exclusive and releasing in 2026 the year of GTAVI

SJRB said:
But FROM still accepted this deal. The payout must be astronomical because a new FROM game would sell gangbusters on PS and PC.
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We'll see.
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Marathon is will probably be on Switch 2 as well, but Duskbloods will probably have more leg and become a niche game that a group of people play it and swear by it. Marathon will probably fail especially if ARC Raiders release close to it
 
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I still think it will be an ok success, not the new fortnite, but ok

also, duskblood will likely be cannibalized by ER nightreign on the other platforms
 
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EDMIX said:
And Destiny was a new IP in market against other FPS titles and went on to break many records for Bungie...

The point is merely that you are saying this about a developer that is part of that saturation, they are not merely nobodies in that field to act as if some other fucking FPS is suppose to deter them from releasing a title like that

Would be like fucking saying Rockstar shouldn't put out a open world title cause other open world titles.... They do that concept well, thus they are correct to put a game out as people will listen to developers like that, just like we would support some Fromsoft SINGLE PLAYER RPG game based on their history of actually doing that well.
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Bungie is nowadays definition of:
 
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