Pseudo Xbox PR is NOT an opinion. This forum was created because purged PS fans from GAF/ERA. Allowing Xbox PR crap here PS fans will walk away from here or posting less and less.
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Sea of Thieves is the currently the best selling Preordered game on PSN U.S. & also possibly in many European countries where Preorders look strong.
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Pseudo Xbox PR is NOT an opinion. This forum was created because purged PS fans from GAF/ERA. Allowing Xbox PR crap here PS fans will walk away from here or posting less and less.
That is exactly how Xbots took over all those other boards, you let them hang-around and they create an environment where everyone has to walk on eggshells not to hurt their feelings and Xbox false narratives take over.
I remember when you couldn't even call out Series S being a bad strategy and being terrible hardware anywhere, despite the obvious. But on the other hand it was fine to spread FUD and bold claims about 12 Teraflops (even Digital Foundry went a long with it and still does to this day, despite the consoles being out for almost 4 years).
Same was true for the Bethesda and ABK acquisition threads, bad posts need to be called out and made fun of.
I don't think that's gonna happen here. For one people are much quicker to call out PR talking point BS, and obviously so. Myself included. Those tricks get harder to replicate over time, not easier.
That said, I don't necessarily think the opinion of SoT having decent success on PS is in the same train of thought as the obvious MS PR talking points like "exclusives BAD!" or "Day 1 PC for all games!", like we've been seeing pushed around the past few weeks/months. The reason those talking points keep struggling to gain real traction is because enough people push back against them with common sense and actual data.
I also notice that it's mainly MS doing the marketing push for these ports; they're getting zero favored treatment from SIE in that regard and the most Nintendo's done is had the games show up briefly at a Partner Direct. Until MS actually do step away from pushing Xbox consoles altogether, I think we'll keep seeing that reserved tolerance from Sony & Nintendo because there's always the thought that MS could just go all-in pushing Xbox consoles again to directly compete against them, and you don't want to "feed" them anymore than you have to.
Though, given the trajectory for what Xbox console sales look like this year, and the rumors now about Hellblade 2 & bigger games with ports "very much on the way" (including Starfield, which butthurt Reset admin Ghostcrew closed a thread on while also trying to discredit the leaker), it seems the possibility of Microsoft actually continuing with the console itself (without some massive shift in the business plan, like into PC-esque gaming NUCs, portables etc. running Windows) is increasingly reaching nil.
Xbox running Windows is right there for MS to take, I don't how they don't see it as the obvious solution to their hardware problem. They even have a solution for people mostly buying games on Steam and that would be to sell slightly subsided hardware tied to Gamepass.
I also don't get how Sony doesn't see that it's inevitably going to happen and all their ported games to PC will become available on Xbox when that happens, possibly giving it a second wind.
Sony is above all lucky that Phil Spencer is in charge and the dude is beyond incompetent.
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Listening to Phil Spencer at this point is like listening to me singing. Highly unreliable and unpleasant.
whatever is the latest game usually just shoots straight to #1. Erdtree preorders have been out for a while, same with Ronin, Stellar Blade, HiFi Rush, Dragons Dogma, etc. Sea of Thieves and MLB The Show preorders just opened, so the volume of preorders for them is higher, but they'll fall off eventually.
The game sucks, I'm surprised that people are buying it considering it's basically for kids
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4 million still seems like a huge number to me for that game.
I'll buy this as a Playstation fan, not even because I want to play it, but to signal MS that they should bring more of their games to Playstation.
Honestly I have no interest in sea of thieves and pentiment, Hi-Fi rush does look fucking great tho, Tango is solid as fuck.
But there is Xbox Stuff that I would like to play, Mainly Halo and Gears, they have nothing else of real consequence.
But I'm voting with my wallet, and hey Sea of Thieves does seem like fun with friends
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oh wow thats a lot of cope lol.
The ship is sinking and they really are taking any fucking W they can, even if its borderline schizophrenic
on that note, Battlefront classic day one purchase WHO'S WITH ME? LETS GOOOOOOO!!!!Oh, snap. It is not now at 1st place. How about to make a tweet about that Benji?
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It does but I just padded it since some ppl here think it'll sell close to 10 mil or more.
The PSN pre-orders chart is about as a reliable indicator of how something is doing/going to do as amazon's hourly movers and shakers. Don't use it to prove anything one way or another, just wait for the results after launch.