Helldivers is proof that titles don't need to be multiplat for success.

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According to industry analyst and insider Mat Piscatella, Sony-published Helldivers 2 is such a huge smash hit that it eclipsed every other title, including perennial bestsellers like Call of Duty, a multiplatform release, based on sales on PS5 -alone-.

This puts to rest any fearmongering that any title needs to be multiplatform to be successful. Platforms that games launch on are based on a calculus that each publisher decides, and going multiplatform does not guarantee success and being exclusive is not indicative of lost sales.
 
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no news here, and this is a multiplayer title, if we talk about singleplayer, there are even less reasons to ever port them to other platforms, specially for PlayStation since they can easily sell 10 - 20M copies only on the console
 
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Etifilio said:
it didn't needed to be multiplat to be a success, that's what Mat Piscatella is saying and that's what the topic is about, the PS5 version of Helldivers 2 sold enough copies to make it the best selling game of 2024 in the US
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Another caveat is no sales #s for a game like palworld, which is #1 or #2 based on pc alone. No multiplat needed.
 
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Polyh3dron said:
WOM from streamers playing on PC has easily resulted in additional PS5 game sales. The game is indeed multiplatform. Thread title and argument is fatally flawed.
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you act as if ps5 has no capacity for streaming or sharing to social media lmao
 
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Man I wish the the type of gamers who are buying Helldivers II on masse, would give East Asian games a shot. Do they ever get bored from only playing MP and and the usual games like Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, FIFA, GTA?
I really wonder what happened to the people who bought Japanese games in double-digit range in millions from PS1-PS2 era…
 
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Every ps/nintendo exclusive (before pc ports) was already evidence of this. Helldivers is a bad example, even if it'd still be #1 without PC, the game is multiplat.

God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon, TLOU, Uncharted, Spider-Man, were all exclusive, and they all sold better than 99% of multiplatform games.

Nintendo has games that are fully exclusive that sell better than pretty much everything else.

The only people that act like exclusivity is needed for a game to be successful are salty Xbox/PC bums.
 
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JAHGamer said:
Every ps/nintendo exclusive (before pc ports) was already evidence of this. Helldivers is a bad example, even if it'd still be #1 without PC, the game is multiplat.

God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon, TLOU, Uncharted, Spider-Man, were all exclusive, and they all sold better than 99% of multiplatform games.

Nintendo has games that are fully exclusive that sell better than pretty much everything else.

The only people that act like exclusivity is needed for a game to be successful are salty Xbox/PC bums.
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And Nintendo fanboys, when they don't have certain Japanese games on their preferred Toy box.
 
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No surprise here, a PlayStation successful GaaS being big on PC is expected, the problem for Sony is that single player AAA games don't behave like that and just get pirated to death.

The main point from this info is that a games being available on Xbox is irrelevant for it's success and impact. No Final Fantasy XVI, Rise of The Ronin or Helldivers 2 wouldn've hardly sold any more copies had they been available for Xbox.
 
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JAHGamer said:
Yeah, them too, God forbid developers want to create a game that doesn't look and run like trash. They want every game to be gimped down to run on their weak tablets, nah GTFOH.
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At least Nintendo fans actually buy games, the same cant be said for Xbox
 
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Box said:
At least Nintendo fans actually buy games, the same cant be said for Xbox
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No one denies that, but a games vision shouldn't be compromised just so it can launch on awful hardware. Amazing games like FF16 and FF7 Rebirth wouldn't be possible if they were built with Switch in mind, but they still think these games should be developed for Switch first. It's backwards and selfish, they put Nintendo's success over their own enjoyment.
 
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JAHGamer said:
No one denies that, but a games vision shouldn't be compromised just so it can launch on awful hardware. Amazing games like FF16 and FF7 Rebirth wouldn't be possible if they were built with Switch in mind, but they still think these games should be developed for Switch first. It's backwards and selfish, they put Nintendo's success over their own enjoyment.
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Meeee, meeee..
 
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Same as Ronin, yes. Also, there were numerous examples before Helldivers. I dunno why this is the news all of a sudden.
 
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He made “another” bad comment.
And had to correct himself.

That is what I saw.

BTW there are several exclusives games that already proved games doesn’t need to be Multiplatform to be successful.
That was never in question to begin.
 
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anonpuffs said:
you act as if ps5 has no capacity for streaming or sharing to social media lmao
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I act as if the vast majority of influential streamers play games almost exclusively on PC, and to pique their interest, a game being on PC is a necessity.
 
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