Metaphor: ReFantazio shipments and digital sales top one million

RHNintendo

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I've been saying that this will be the next generational RPG since last year, and it's great. Always has high hopes since it's spearheaded by the guy that made Persona big.
 
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BillyZ

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Just wait. Only PlayStation is capable in achieving such high numbers with 3rd Party IPs. Square Enix will come to their senses. It's the fanboys from the other camps who will continue to be in denial.
Metaphor broke the CCU record on Steam for Atlus. Square Enix is watching but they will skip PC day and date in the future right? The only cope you have left is: but it's gonna flop on Xbox! I'm sure it will and? What really matters here is that Sony lost all their third party exclusives.
 

Gods&Monsters

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Metaphor broke the CCU record on Steam for Atlus. Square Enix is watching but they will skip PC day and date in the future right? The only cope you have left is: but it's gonna flop on Xbox! I'm sure it will and? What really matters here is that Sony lost all their third party exclusives.
Broke the CCU is meaningless if FF16 sold triple the amount of copies at release. It must be near 5+ millions by now. Metaphor will never reach that unless they milk it with several versions.
 

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I’m gonna jump in with the ps5 pro. Happy to see it launching strong too.
 
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Vertigo

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Steam launch just broke 75k. User rating holding strong too. I guess that means pc performance is ok
 

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I think these comparisons a bit useless.

First all these games listed where late releases on PC while Metaphor is day and date on PC.

Second whatever Metaphor have success or not will be showed by PS5 sales of the game… these low CCU on Steam doesn’t mean that much.

Without PS gamers buying it the game is probably set to die even with these CCUs on Steam.

The good news is that the game seems to be selling like similar games on PS5 that guarantee not Persona 5 level of success (that is not niche anymore) but something like these successful niche JRPGs that sells like 2-3 million.
 

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Broke the CCU is meaningless if FF16 sold triple the amount of copies at release. It must be near 5+ millions by now. Metaphor will never reach that unless they milk it with several versions.
Been Atlus MO and don't see them stopping. I expect a Metaphor Royal down the line with new content. Because of that I might hold off on the game and wait for that definitive edition.
 
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anonpuffs

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I think these comparisons a bit useless.

First all these games listed where late releases on PC while Metaphor is day and date on PC.

Second whatever Metaphor have success or not will be showed by PS5 sales of the game… these low CCU on Steam doesn’t mean that much.

Without PS gamers buying it the game is probably set to die even with these CCUs on Steam.

The good news is that the game seems to be selling like similar games on PS5 that guarantee not Persona 5 level of success (that is not niche anymore) but something like these successful niche JRPGs that sells like 2-3 million.
Eh, these ccus are probably indicative of about 1/3-1/2 of the player base being on PC. That's pretty significant.
 

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I think these comparisons a bit useless.

First all these games listed where late releases on PC while Metaphor is day and date on PC.

Second whatever Metaphor have success or not will be showed by PS5 sales of the game… these low CCU on Steam doesn’t mean that much.

Without PS gamers buying it the game is probably set to die even with these CCUs on Steam.

The good news is that the game seems to be selling like similar games on PS5 that guarantee not Persona 5 level of success (that is not niche anymore) but something like these successful niche JRPGs that sells like 2-3 million.

So all your arguments is based on your feelings about the PS5?
 

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all these games listed where late releases on PC while Metaphor is day and date on PC
Not disagreeing with your whole assessment, but wanted to say that Soul Hackers 2 actually released day one on PC as well
 

mibu no ookami

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Been Atlus MO and don't see them stopping. I expect a Metaphor Royal down the line with new content. Because of that I might hold off on the game and wait for that definition edition.

Almost certainly holding off until they produce a version with anti-aliasing.