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News Matt Piscatella: Sub. growth has flattened & sub services account for only 10% video game spending in the US. |UP| Still stagnant & stalled.
The Chinese (including Taiwan) represent some 60+% of Steam reviews, and Asia as a whole represent some 70%. https://www.togeproductions.com/SteamScout/steamAPI.php?appID=881020 While obviously there's no general breakdown that we can hope to be completely accurate without actual publisher... -
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Playstation Jim Ryan's 30 years at PlayStation has officially ended. Says PS5 "on track" to be Sony’s most successful & PS2 sold 160 million (PS official podcast)
The Switch is weird because... well, forget the PSP and Vita, in many ways its OS is inferior in some ways to the 3DS, despite apparently being an offshoot of it - no themes, no dedicated eShop app (its just a clunky web portal that lags all the time) - no internet browser, not even the odd... -
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News Matt Piscatella: Sub. growth has flattened & sub services account for only 10% video game spending in the US. |UP| Still stagnant & stalled.
I would actually dispute the lesser known IP thing in China - its a very popular Gacha, and the IP is just straight up bigger than Persona in Japan and China (mobile is huge everywhere of course, but especially in those places) - and China is quite literally where the absolute majority of the... -
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News Matt Piscatella: Sub. growth has flattened & sub services account for only 10% video game spending in the US. |UP| Still stagnant & stalled.
Longevity? Probably/Maybe, it really blew up in China, and I would imagine sales would last longer given its multiplayer/action rpg nature. Outperformed? It took a week longer to reach a million, and didn't have the good old gamepass albatross around its neck. -
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Discussion Why Is Microsoft Putting it's Ugly Logo on all the Persona Trailers?
...Sales legs? Any bad game will have terrible legs unless you've got a Pikachu, Call of Duty, or Sports in the game regardless of genre. Good games in some genres can get great legs, and in JRPGs you practically universally will have poor legs without sales regardless of critical response. This... -
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Discussion Why Is Microsoft Putting it's Ugly Logo on all the Persona Trailers?
??? I can't speak for the Crew, but literally everything else you mentioned are terrible games. If even something as good as Rebirth can't get you a sales drop under 80% (and that was closer to 90), that's just a sign that the entire genre is frontloaded. (As for redfall, forget 80-90%, that... -
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Discussion Why Is Microsoft Putting it's Ugly Logo on all the Persona Trailers?
...Not really? JRPGs are legitimately notorious for this. Aside from Pokemon, it doesn't matter what you look at - Final Fantasy, Persona, Tales, whatever - it doesn't matter what they review at or what their word of mouth is - it's a miracle if you can get them under 80% second week drop, and... -
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Discussion Why Is Microsoft Putting it's Ugly Logo on all the Persona Trailers?
Are all of you this sensitive to disagreement? Like, this just feels fairly in line for a Gamepass-gimped remake. Any further Chinese engagement is entirely reliant on Steam sales given how price conscious the entire market is, and there's no Switch release, which is the only other actually... -
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Discussion Why Is Microsoft Putting it's Ugly Logo on all the Persona Trailers?
They're JRPGs, literally all of them (aside from Pokemon but that behaves less like a regular game and more like a COD title - just something 25 million people or so pick up every time one comes out) - even Final Fantasies tend to have abhorrent sales legs (80~90+% drop after week 1), and... -
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Playstation Jim Ryan's 30 years at PlayStation has officially ended. Says PS5 "on track" to be Sony’s most successful & PS2 sold 160 million (PS official podcast)
I kind of question what people expected after the 3DS. Nintendo's strength has always been in the portable market - you can't deny this - meanwhile the Wii U flopped. Sony was able to put up a fight exactly once in the portable market and despite the PSP selling really well in its own right got... -
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Discussion Why Is Microsoft Putting it's Ugly Logo on all the Persona Trailers?
Didn't they sell a million in a week at 70 bucks? I saw similar (though rare) sales for P5R one or two months after its original playstation release, fast price cuts are standard for Sega these days. -
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News Matt Piscatella: Sub. growth has flattened & sub services account for only 10% video game spending in the US. |UP| Still stagnant & stalled.
Honestly? This really is the biggest reason why PC ports are becoming really common. The lack of existing console culture already makes for a shaky foundation, but it really doesn't help that in China consoles are kind of just fucked there from the get go due to government restrictions - who... -
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Discussion SEGA to cut 240 jobs across Sega Europe, Creative Assembly & SEGA HARDlight. Relic Entertainment (Company of Heroes) will become independent (Sold).
Look gamepass isn't good but that really has nothing to do with the European side of Sega given that's basically all PC based. Relic hasn't made a good game in like a decade and Creative Assembly has basically shot itself in the face repeatedly, and we know that Sega has been very hands off with...