"NPD Analysis March: Dragon's Dogma 2 at No 1, FFVII Rebirth at 7th"

[Johnic]

Almost all PlayStation games are available on Steam. That would be a PR disaster

Unless Sony releases a launcher and has the games exclusive there.
Or, and they already did this before, they block their games on Xbox hardware. Yes, they can do that, as evident by them blocking their games from GeForce.

Sony Still Blocking Games From Xbox Users On NVIDIA GeForce Now

God of War the latest example

www.purexbox.com

 

[ethomaz]

Almost all PlayStation games are available on Steam. That would be a PR disaster

Almost?
Are you trolling?

No even 1% of the PS games are on PC.
From these only the Live Services Helldives 2 was not released years after the PS release.

I mean you can count with your fingers the amount of PS game on Steam

 

[Puff]

Most transparent astroturfing in the history

 

[Nhomnhom]

Stolen from restera:

In his Discord, Jez was more chatty:

- All Xbox first-party games coming to PlayStation, even Forza, Halo
- Xbox will be more Steam-like in the future
- Affordable prices, sales, more open for devs
- Future Xbox-Hardware gonna be for fans who want it
- Xbox hardware will be niche like Steam Deck
- Next Xbox will side-load Steam
- "I don't think they expect to ever grow in hardware"

he said "Nobody wanted to give Xbox a chance, so this is what they get with a Sony monopoly"

Post in thread 'Xbox Game Studios + Bethesda + ABK |OT30| Why So Series X|S?'
https://www.resetera.com/threads/xb...-ot30-why-so-series-x-s.820296/post-122382702

Next meltdown is when they find out that all Xbox games will start coming out on PlayStation day 1.

Gamepass is already becoming another Games With Gold and Xbox hardware will just be some low effort poorly thought trough Steam Deck clone running Windows.

This is exactly the outcome these Xbox fanatics deserved.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Most transparent astroturfing in the history

Go back a few months and Mat was praising PS5 sales, higher than PS4 launch-aligned. Consoles and the premium AAA market was very healthy.

As soon as Phil talked about going multiplat and Gen Z, it's now part of the vocabulary online. Consoles are not growing and it's for boomers, kids are moving to PC, games need to be multiplat and platform agnostic.

Articles and interviews keep coming out repeating the same mantra from Phil. It basically happened overnight and they're all following their prophet.

It's scary how organized they are.

FF7 is caught in the crossfire as usual. It's THE subject when you want warrior clicks

 

[ethomaz]

Most transparent astroturfing in the history

So it is selling less than FF16 by double digit %?

 

[Puff]

So it is selling less than FF16 by double digit %?

They are hiding their articles behind a paywall

 

[ethomaz]

They are hiding their articles behind a paywall

This is part of the content but the twitter already says it is double % down compared with FFXVI.

"Circana says Rebirth is 14th in dollar sales, lifetime, for all Final Fantasy games in the U.S. That might be good? There have been a lot of FF games.

But Rebirth is indeed well behind Remake in the U.S.. Its life-to-date dollar sales are "down by a double-digit percentage when compared to Remake over the same time period," Piscatella told me.

One popular explanation for Rebirth's lower sales is that Remake was selling into a 100-million unit PlayStation 4 installed base, while Rebirth can only reach about half of that with the younger PS5.

That's true, but even last year's PS5-only Final Fantasy XVI appears to have had a significantly hotter start than Rebirth. Per Circana's Piscatella, Rebirth's life-to-date dollar sales are also down a double-digit percentage compared to Final Fantasy XVI.

If you search on Google for any of that part of the text it will lead to the paywall article... so you can get the text from Google Cache.

 

[Cool hand luke]

Most transparent astroturfing in the history

Rise of the Ronin, PS5 exclusive, is likely the highest selling Tecmo Koei game or at least their soulslike game based on its debut. FFVII Rebirth outsold Persona 3 Reloaded and Yakuza, both multiplatform releases, and Helldivers 2 majorly outsold other full multiplatform games. Stellar Blade will likely repeat this success.

Exclusives are dead on Xbox, maybe, but it looks like PS5 is bringing more sales to more titles.

 

[Say1nMan]

Most transparent astroturfing in the history

Rebirth is the 4th best selling game of the year cracked the top 5 and these journos are still bringing up the astroturfing. Smh. Totilo really saw two GAAS multiplayer games and a single player JRPG and thought that those games are very comparable to one another.

 

[Gediminas]

Rise of the Ronin, PS5 exclusive, is likely the highest selling Tecmo Koei game or at least their soulslike game based on its debut. FFVII Rebirth outsold Persona 3 Reloaded and Yakuza, both multiplatform releases, and Helldivers 2 majorly outsold other full multiplatform games. Stellar Blade will likely repeat this success.

Exclusives are dead on Xbox, maybe, but it looks like PS5 is bringing more sales to more titles.

Granblue Fantasy Relink sold also great.

 

[John Elden Ring]

• Sales of games machines are down 30% in the UK this year.​

• Xbox Series console sales are down just under 25%,​

• PS5 sales are down just over 25%,​

• Switch sales are down 38%.​

 

[panda-zebra]

That's Dring/gi.biz not Circana

 

[ethomaz]

That is GFK.

 

[Yurinka]

The peak year of their hardware yearly sales passed, so it's normal to see them with yoy decrease every year until they get discontinued.

Last year, Xbox and specially PS5 were for the fist time freely available after the shortages, so they had an extra peak. Meaning, now in the following year the decrease is higher.

Nothing rare or bad here.

Additional context: launch aligned PS4 is their fastest selling console ever and PS5 is very close at least worldwide.

 

[Airbus]

How do you like that PC effect sony

 

[Gediminas]

The peak year of their hardware yearly sales passed, so it's normal to see them with yoy decrease every year until they get discontinued.

Last year, Xbox and specially PS5 were for the fist time freely available after the shortages, so they had an extra peak. Meaning, now in the following year the decrease is higher.

Nothing rare or bad here.

xbox didn't have shortages.

xbox was Down 30% in 22, down 31% in 2023, and down another 25% in 24.

 

[Puff]

PS5 is nearly outselling SX by 6 to 1

 

[gokuss4]

PS5 is nearly outselling SX by 6 to 1

Ps5 is doing great numbers in USA
But the problem is eu and the rest of the world cuz ps5 prices are crazy high in those countries
Sony needs to cut the price soon imo