But Ratchet managed to sell 4 million and Astrobot is already starting out higher. Plus, it's a much much better platformer.
[Chris Dring] Astro Bot's UK launch is solid. First week sales are 21% higher than the debut of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in 2021
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But Ratchet managed to sell 4 million and Astrobot is already starting out higher. Plus, it's a much much better platformer.
Yes but his stats usually don't get much attention unless it's FF/Sony first-party and he knows it. His tweet about Astrobot physical made the internet explode with hundreds of replies. Astrobot was considered a flop until today.
He also downplayed the sales before release saying the game would sell more if it was on Nintendo Switch. Chris and Mat are active on all the platforms, they know the attention they get.
In one market, for a week, let's wait a bit.
Although Circana for September is going to be in a long ass time...
That's blaming the messenger for the dumb gaming discourse.
Why should he change how he does thing because certain games get more attention from console warriors?
I mean, is that even a controversial take? Of course adding another SKU means it'll sell more.
This is beyond the fact that PlayStation users, at this point in time, show up for Spyro and Crash and very little for other platformers. It's just a consequence of cultivating an audience that wants the big blockbusters.
Like, I remember how indies and smaller games would sell in the early part of the PS4 generation, and then over time the Switch audience gobbled up a progressively larger piece of the sales of indie titles.
Kinda sad actually, I remember when my fellow PS bros would support a lot more varied games.
SIE themselves put the LEGO Horizon game on Switch because they know LEGO games sell the best on Switch.
Making a great game is good, but also putting in on the platform where people want to buy your game is also an important part of making products.
AstroBot will be fine and possibly outsell Ratchet when all is said and done(TBD), that's great.
It's not really a system seller.
The people you'd generally advertise it to won't be able to afford the PS5 at its current pricing.
Families + kids.
Pack in has to draw interest.
This isn't the type of game you really draw people in with.
It doesn’t.
Horizon was a pack in and how many bought the console for it?
Let’s be honest.
It's the UK tho, even Super Mario platformers has trouble selling in that territory as much as he sells in others. I wouldn't read too much into it.
Packs in are also to push software and expose a game to an audience at times.
Astro deserved a bundle but they still can do that during Xmas. The entire game revolved around the PS5 hardware it's no brainer
He would never dare say the same thing if MS was launching a new IP exclusive on Xbox "It would sell way better on PS5". Did he say that about Hifi-Rush or Hellblade 2? Those sales were buried and never compared.
I remember he made up a new stat specifically for Starfield (fastest-selling new IP and fifth biggest launch). We never saw these articles before or since, it was just a way for him to hype Starfield and downplay the FF16 numbers in the same article (Starfield was actually on sale for a whole week more so it wasn't even an honest comparison, just BS numbers).
You might not notice these things but we do. There's a pattern with Chris. Same with Mat.
Why play this character?
The most recent sales data we got from Rift Apart was 4M as of June 2023 (2 years after launch). Meaning, Rift Apart very likely will end selling over 6M or so (PS only, not counting PC). Meaning, it's the best selling Ratchet game ever.
If launch UK retail sales would be representative of the global sales (spoiler: they aren't), then Astro Bot would be on track of selling around over aprox. 7.3M copies. Which already would be the best selling internally developed Japan Studio game ever and would be almost the 7.5M copies Bloodborne had as of Feb. 2022. Which is the best selling 2nd party Japan Studio game.
Looking at PSN and Amazon rankings in the main PS countries, I think it's pretty likely that will sell a bit more than that, closer to or maybe even above 10M (after its whole lifetime, not at launch).
It would be far from the over 60M units sold of the best selling platformer ever in any console, Astro's Playroom.
If launch UK retail sales would be representative of the global sales (spoiler: they aren't), then Astro Bot would be on track of selling around over aprox. 7.3M copies. Which already would be the best selling internally developed Japan Studio game ever and would be almost the 7.5M copies Bloodborne had as of Feb. 2022. Which is the best selling 2nd party Japan Studio game.
Looking at PSN and Amazon rankings in the main PS countries, I think it's pretty likely that will sell a bit more than that, closer to or maybe even above 10M (after its whole lifetime, not at launch).
It would be far from the over 60M units sold of the best selling platformer ever in any console, Astro's Playroom.
If Rift Apart did 29K, if Astro did 21% more than that then Astro did 35K, not 19-20K.
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I love educating.
The industry moved AWAY from single player almost as much as it moved TOWARDS GAAS. Almost all of the comments I read online are from GAAS haters but the old business model wasn't working. People like to ignore that fact.
Incredible start for what is essentially a new IP for the PS audience. It's one market from many, but it looks to be shaping up to be an evergreen.
Your head isn't working not old model.
What are you educating? How to write stupid ass comments?
So true, hopefully Team Asobi will start working on the extraction shooter Escape from Astro immediately.