Hi-Fi Rush reaches 2 million players

[Swift_Star]

Poor Hi-Fi, never had a chance…

It’s really amusing that months after release, stray is more searched on google than Hi-Fi

 

[adamsapple]

Some eye opening stats.

Hi-Fi Rush is the most talked about game on this forum, its thread is the biggest single game thread this forum has had so far.

Incredible for a game that's already been forgotten minutes after release..

 

[Shmunter]

Some eye opening stats.

Hi-Fi Rush is the most talked about game on this forum, its thread is the biggest single game thread this forum has had so far.

Incredible for a game that's already been forgotten minutes after release..

Context needed, like Velma getting a season 2 due to popularity thanks to Hate watchers

 

[adamsapple]

Context needed, like Velma getting a season 2 due to popularity thanks to Hate watchers

That would explain why Forspoken is so high, that game has no redeeming quality, even the die hards here don't want to defend it.

 

[KiryuRealty]

Context needed, like Velma getting a season 2 due to popularity thanks to Hate watchers

The Velma situation is actually bullshit. They made 2 seasons before the show started, it was going to get renewed regardless.

 

[Shmunter]

That would explain why Forspoken is so high, that game has no redeeming quality, even the die hards here don't want to defend it.

Not sure people would pay just to hate on something. If included on a sub it’s easy.

 

[adamsapple]

Not sure people would pay just to hate on something. If included on a sub it’s easy.

@rofif died for our sins.

 

[Shmunter]

The Velma situation is actually bullshit. They made 2 seasons before the show started, it was going to get renewed regardless.

Maybe, but it was viral all the anti-woke coverage. Would spur a look.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Some eye opening stats.

Hi-Fi Rush is the most talked about game on this forum, its thread is the biggest single game thread this forum has had so far.

Incredible for a game that's already been forgotten minutes after release..

And after all this talk and shilling, the game still failed to make any big numbers.

Do you feel useless and incompetent in your life? Is that why you keep bringing up Forspoken? Tell us how you feel.

 

[adamsapple]

Tell us how you feel

Peachy, a little hungry but nothing a late night snack won't fix.

Also feeling #Blessed that this forum likes Hi-Fi Rush so much that it's the single most discussed about game here. GG Tango.

How about you? Still sore that a shadow drop boi did so well that it completely killed the momentum of a $70 AAA exclusive ?

 

[KiryuRealty]

Maybe, but it was viral all the anti-woke coverage. Would spur a look.

Warner Animation doesn’t produce single seasons for new shows anymore, it’s not cost-effective enough.

Everything they’ve done since at least the Harley Quinn animated series, they’ve done two full seasons as the initial order.

 

[Muddasar]

Some eye opening stats.

Hi-Fi Rush is the most talked about game on this forum, its thread is the biggest single game thread this forum has had so far.

Incredible for a game that's already been forgotten minutes after release..

Talked about here for the wrong reasons just to rub it in your face to tell you how delusional you are.

The game is over rated.

90% of Gamepass subscribers will tell you that. Couldn’t even bother pressing the download button.

 

[adamsapple]

Talked about here for the wrong reasons just to rub it in your face to tell you how delusional you are.

The game is over rated.

90% of Gamepass subscribers will tell you that. Couldn’t even bother pressing the download button.

If being on a service means unless everyone subscribed downloads it, it's a failure than holy shit Stray is a colossal failure by your logic, so much so that they didn't even reveal how many people downloaded it, just the number of people who dunked a basketball in the game.

Please come back when you find some sound logic

 

[KiryuRealty]

If being on a service means unless everyone subscribed downloads it, it's a failure than holy shit Stray is a colossal failure by your logic, so much so that they didn't even reveal how many people downloaded it, just the number of people who dunked a basketball in the game.

Please come back when you find some sound logic

Stray was only available to the upper tiers of Plus, you sad sack.

 

[Muddasar]

If being on a service means unless everyone subscribed downloads it, it's a failure than holy shit Stray is a colossal failure by your logic, so much so that they didn't even reveal how many people downloaded it.

Please come back when you find some sound logic

No one claims Stray is GOTY or the best thing since sliced bread.

It was just an Indie level title. Just like HiFi Rush.

Secondly only Xbox reveals download numbers cause no one buys their games.

Gotta save face somehow.

 

[Muddasar]

If being on a service means unless everyone subscribed downloads it, it's a failure than holy shit Stray is a colossal failure by your logic, so much so that they didn't even reveal how many people downloaded it, just the number of people who dunked a basketball in the game.

Please come back when you find some sound logic

Stray had a steam concurrent player peak of 63000. Similar to God of War levels.

HiFi Rush had 6100.

See the difference?

I guarantee you Stray outsold Hifi Rush on PC.

Secondly why would Sony reveal anything? It’s a third party game.

 

[DonFerrari]

Five pages

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Stray had a steam concurrent player peak of 63000. Similar to God of War levels.

HiFi Rush had 6100.

See the difference?

I guarantee you Stray outsold Hifi Rush on PC.

Secondly why would Sony reveal anything? It’s a third party game.

Stray was on PS+ Extra right at the beginning of the service in July. I doubt they had 25 millions people on that tier on Day 1.

They also don't have unlimited free pringles or $1 trials to everybody + xCloud to inflate the numbers even more.

 

[Darth Vader]

This is my only comment on this topic and I just want to add a few things:

Hi-Fi Rush is a good game, though slightly overrated
Stray is a good game scored appropriately

Now that I got that out, here's some information. Below are the numbers from steamdb on both games:

Hi-Fi Rush

Stray

Even if we ignore the sales figures on the right-hand side of each, which is perfectly acceptable since they are estimates, in terms of commercial success Stray absolutely destroys Hi-Fi Rush. It's a no-contest knockout with a fatality.

It's perfectly fine to say Hi-Fi Rush was a great game that did not pull the expected numbers. Yes, 2M is a lot, but when the likelyhood is that most of those 2M didn't actually pay for the game, and the attach rate on a subscription is < 10%... There are zero arguments for this game being a commercial success.

I'd love for Xbox apologists to wake up and try to understand why this happens and its implications in future XGS games.

Anyway, I'm out of this topic.

Edit - I came back to add some information to a bit of misinformation by our friend @adamsapple as per usual

It Takes Two was a small seller and only got most of its sales after it won the GoTY award at The Game Awards.

• It sold 1M units within its first month
• Sold a further 1M within the next two months
• By October it had a further 1M units sold

That alone proves it was not a small seller, especially since TGA only occurred in December. Looking beyond these numbers:

• By February 2022 it had sold a further 2M copies
• Precisely 12 months later it had sold a further 5M copies

Now if we math the shit out of this, we can figure out that:

• For the first 7 months it sold on average 428k copies / month
• For the following 4 months it sold on average 500k copies / month
• And then for the 12 months following that it sold 417k copies / month

So, while TGA certainly gave helped it gain some legs, the average purchases per month have barely changed between milestones.

Now, funny enough, when looking at steamdb numbers, it's actually not too dissimilar from Stray, except Stray has not that much engagement nowadays:

What do I mean by this? It's not unreasonable to deduct that their sales on PC were similar enough, and if It Takes Two sold a couple million units (not an unreasonable assumption), that Stray could have sold a similar number.

 

[arvfab]

That would explain why Forspoken is so high, that game has no redeeming quality, even the die hards here don't want to defend it.

You played it to assert it? I did, and it's actually quite fun to play. Sure it's not the best game, not the best looking game, not the best story, but not every game can be a masterpiece like the ones Sony usually releases.