Japan Hardware and Software Charts (20 Feb - 26 Feb)

Yurinka

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Both Nintendo and MS fans want Sony to go down.

Nintendo is siding with MS on the Activision deal. Kojima is working with MS.

Really Sony has no allies in the gaming industry.
Nintendo doesn't care about whatever Sony and MS does, and doesn't care about CoD either. CoD and similar never performed well on Nintendo platforms.

Sony has the biggest AAA 3rd party and indie 3rd party support of all three. It's the one with more allies.

EA, Ubisoft, Take2 and all the other pubs, none of them came out in support of Sony.
They all had big deals with Sony. EA did put their service on PS, has marketing deals with Sony like with all the FIFAs. The biggest Ubi games like Valhalla or Far Cry 6 also had marketing deals with Sony, and did put tons of Ubi games on PS. Take 2 also had the GTA5 & Online next gen marketing deal with Sony and not sure if also has marketing deal with NBA2K. Warner also makes marketing deals with Sony for their main games, like Howgart's Legacy, Suicide Squad or Mortal Kombat.

Square, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Konami or Koei Tecmo also have their deals with Capcom, even different types of exclusives. In the indie side in addition to the game specific deals like Kena, Stray or Sifu, Sony also often has deals with Devolver or Annapurna.

Basically all the big names are with Sony.

Kojima can stay over with MS tbh because I'm pretty sure Death Stranding was a flop, he's an overrated storyteller and any game he releases on with MS would flop even worse than Death Stranding
They didn't update the sales numbers for a while, but it was on track to be the best selling Kojima game ever. It was the game that won more GOTY awards of its year. They made a PC port, a Director's Cut and announced a sequel and a movie.

It's a big success and both sides are happy, not a flop at all. He may do a project with MS, but continues working with Sony.
 
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ethomaz

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Kojima can stay over with MS tbh because I'm pretty sure Death Stranding was a flop, he's an overrated storyteller and any game he releases on with MS would flop even worse than Death Stranding
A masterpiece that sold amazing for a new IP.
Plus received good critics and word of mouth.

I mean it is the complete opposite of flop lol

BTW it is the very best Kojima game and in an era where games are all more of the same DS shined with mix of innovation and roots game design.

A sequel is definitively a full day one buy 🤷‍♂️
 
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Lets not all pretend Kojima sucks ffs. He’s been a huge part from Playstation’s success. From MGS1-2-3 and Saving PS3’s awful start with MGS4.

Gonna end up sounding as bad as the xbots when they flipflop all the time
 
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I’d much rather have a sony produced Kojima game with all the bells and whistles of sonys first party (decima) than whatever little side indie project he’s making as a cloud game for xbox. That relationship feels like its solely for optics.

DS2 is gonna be incredible.
 
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Good morning with a typical MC thread post:

"Honestly I’m a bit disappointed that the high PS5 HW sales has not shown that much increase in the top 30 outside of bundled games (I guess?) and Hairy Potter declining a bit from last week.

Or am I wrong?"

:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
Which clown said that?
 

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Japan has done some heavy lifting for sales, that 19 million shipped forecast looking pretty good right about now.