Wish Sony would acquire studios like this, with actual creativity.
If Sony buys them then every woman in Stellar Blade 2 is going to get hit with the ugly stick. No thanks.
Wish Sony would acquire studios like this, with actual creativity.
Why are they throwing PlayStation Exclusives under the bus? User score means nothing in an Era of review bombing. The game is mediocre compared to the other PlayStation exclusives.
the main consumer base for AAA games has been shifting to PCs? What a bunch of bullshit
Why are they throwing PlayStation Exclusives under the bus? User score means nothing in an Era of review bombing. The game is mediocre compared to the other PlayStation exclusives.
Why are they throwing PlayStation Exclusives under the bus? User score means nothing in an Era of review bombing. The game is mediocre compared to the other PlayStation exclusives.
It's actually one of the best PS exclsuives this gen. Give me this over horizon any day.
New IP
First Time AAA dev
Exclusive to PS5
+1 million sold in less than 2 months
gaming forums: major flop
swear a lot of folks need to see Zelda numbers to think anything is successful.
Maybe he means specifically in Korea… where AAA space is practically nonexistentthe main consumer base for AAA games has been shifting to PCs? What a bunch of bullshit
100% and I love Zelda lolIt's actually one of the best PS exclsuives this gen. Give me this over horizon any day.
New IP
First Time AAA dev
Exclusive to PS5
+1 million sold in less than 2 months
gaming forums: major flop
swear a lot of folks need to see Zelda numbers to think anything is successful.
It sold 3 million in a familiar time frame, it’s also an established franchise thats been bubbling for many years, and multiplatform.Didn’t dragon’s dogma sold like 2 millions on multiple platforms and was considered a success?
just idiots thinks this is major flop.It's actually one of the best PS exclsuives this gen. Give me this over horizon any day.
New IP
First Time AAA dev
Exclusive to PS5
+1 million sold in less than 2 months
gaming forums: major flop
swear a lot of folks need to see Zelda numbers to think anything is successful.
AAA is not moving to PC. This is a falsehood. In fact, it's never been worse for AAA on PC. Might sell 10k more over there.
They're trying to excuse why this game hasn't sold super well.
And no, in today's age 1 million is not enough given the budget of these games.
Even if this game only cost 50 million to develop.. that's not a sufficient return on investment for anyone involved.
Lol, this guy is such a hypocrite He considers the PC port initiatives a success when they can barely generate 30 million profit after 3+ years. But Stellar Blade generating well over 30 million in 1 month is bad?And how would you know that? Do you have access to the budget documents? By your logic, a game like SF6 should've also been considered a failure because that game did ~ 2 million in a similar span of time across a lot of additional platforms (PS5, PS4, XBS, PC (Steam)).
You also seem to forget this game was part of SIE's China Hero Project; you've no idea what subsidizations were involved in the project, or things like tax breaks or special loans from South Korean banks, or funds provided by Chinese investment firms as part of the China Hero Project, etc. As well, the game is only two months old; it will have the rest of the generation to sell copies, it will have a PC port in the future, and its presence in the meantime on the console along with other games will help provide value proposition that interests more people to buy PS5s.
The idea that every single game, even if it's an exclusive, has to on its own be a mega-gangbuster sales behemoth to justify itself in the market is born from nonsensical and greedy shareholders who don't comprehend the non-tangible benefits exclusives bring to a platform for its platform holder. These types of people are shockingly short-term thinkers and lack the nuance of longer-term market outlooks or a historical understanding of the industry from multiple perspectives to extrapolate a polished long-term outlook thereof.
I don't know if you realize this, but you are inadvertently playing right into the rhetoric various games "journalists" and Xbox console warriors have been using the past few years to diminish various PlayStation exclusives in their pursuit to make exclusives (mainly 3P exclusives) look "anti-consumer"...but only when PlayStation does it. That's the only time it matters (apparently).