Pentiment, Grounded, Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi RUSH confirmed coming to PS5. |UP| Hifi rush preorders on PS5 going well.
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Why do all Xbox fans talk like this? I mean that as a genuine question.
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Two of the four games are massive. One game in Hi Fi Rush is a game that will get a lot of people buying it just with the art style alone. Pentiment is the only game that won't sell much. But again, we'll just have to wait and see.
"the gaming community thrives when more people get to play"
God I hate their PR talk, they should be getting more flak for it, if they really believed in what they preach then they would release everything on Playstation and Switch but that isn't the case (so far at least).
God I hate their PR talk, they should be getting more flak for it, if they really believed in what they preach then they would release everything on Playstation and Switch but that isn't the case (so far at least).
Do remember that delayed ports do not do as well as initial releases and this effect increases the more a game has already been out elsewhere, this is known sales phenomenon.
Out of the initial launch Zeitgeist/FOMO crowd and games sell a lot less, even quality games with some pretty good casual/mass appeal.
This is why even in this very PS centric forum, most users begrudgingly or not agreed that Day 1 GaaS on PC is an understandable thing(that we've just seen in action with Helldivers 2).
I agree but most games that are usually timed are single player games. Two of the four games aren't. They're multi-player games and those who are into multi-player games are at the very least going to be very tempted, old or not. Plus in regards to Sea of Thieves, there's no other pirate game that's worth playing and that includes Skull & Bones. But we'll see. Maybe I will be way off but at the same time, I may also end up being very close to being accurate. Just have to wait and see.
You remember all the "rumors" regarding MS buying SEGA on a Wednesday? Whoever spread it, got misheard it, it was actually "becoming" SEGA on a Wednesday.
I think you are overestimating it by a factor of 10.
The only reason Sea of Thieves is talked about is because it's, was, an Xbox exclusive. Any other live service game like that would be rightfully seen as niche, not a 10m seller.
Compared to something like Starfield, TES or even Forza Horizon and (nowadays) Halo, HiFi Rush is not a massive game. It had a bit of a glow-up at the time it released and got strong scores, but player engagement on at least Xbox doesn't look like it was very high despite the hype and the game didn't move a lot of copies even with Steam availability.
It's definitely more of a name draw at this point than, say, Pentiment or Grounded, but I wouldn't say it's a "massive" game. I can see HiFi Rush doing ~ 1-2 million lifetime on PS5 and Switch 2 combined, which would probably bring total lifetime sales by that point to ~ 3.5 - 4 million. Not bad for a new IP that's more AA in scale, but clearly not the numbers of several AAA IP out there.
3.5m? There is no way it sold 2.3m copies on PC and Xbox.
Haha. Perhaps. We'll see.
Perhaps but the difference is that there's six years worth of content in the game and millions will be very interested in playing it once it releases on PlayStation 5.
Sea of Thieves and Grounded are the massive games. Hi Fi Rush is just one hell of a great action adventure game that will pull in a lot of people just with the art style alone. Player engagement was low because it was shadow dropped with no marketing or advertising. We'll see how they all do on PlayStation 5.
Nobody cares about the 2019 content of Sea of Thieves on a large enough scale for it to sell millions. On Steam, where it is already accessible, it averages about 3k CCUs. That's not 10m in sales worth.
Sony did not promote any of the 4 games on their channel.
They should add a Z in front of each title and sort PSN alphabetically so nobody can find them on the store
They should add a Z in front of each title and sort PSN alphabetically so nobody can find them on the store
My predictions:
- Nobody buys Pentiment on PS or Switch, but MS says they're very happy with it
- Hi Fi Rush sells like Bayonetta: maximum 2M, but MS says they are very happy with it
- Nobody buys Grounded and Sea of Thieves in non-Xbox consoles, MS says they're very happy with them and make them F2P