And Sony itself is not exactly in a healthy position. The gaming division is pretty much the only one keeping the rest of the company afloat. Meanwhile it lost billions from its stock market due to a cut in sales forecast, and its practice of paying hundreds of millions to Disney for the Spiderman license, which also takes a cut from every copy sold, is not a sustainable strategy either.
@TheSimulator Who's comparing Hellblade 2 to Dark Souls other than you? Even the first Hellblade is noted for being a short single player narrative adventure. Completion rate means jack, because it says nothing about development costs or revenue, especially considering that AAA games these days need more than 10x the development expense and 10x the sales compared to a decade ago to break even.
May I also remind you that Sony's own Stellar Blade didn't exactly set the charts on fire? It quickly dropped out of the top 50 after two weeks.
@TheSimulator And how does personal completion of a game matter? The publishers already got their money. I already posted a link before which showed that the majority of players don't finish their games. Even highly acclaimed games like the Arkham trilogy only has 30-40% completion. Dark Souls 3 has 23%, the Dishonored games has 37-41%, and the new Hitman games has 16-22%.
@GuyinPA75 Are we even subscribed to the same service? You reckon Diablo 4 is a SNES platformer? Control? Lies of P? Yakuza Like a Dragon? All of which would cost hundreds if bought from a physical store?
And sales is not the same as profit, which is why the games that make the most profit are F2P mobile games packed with microtransactions.
@GuyinPA75 And yet Game Pass saved me hundreds in purchasing games and helped me discover many that I would have never purchased. And I don't know why you're so obsessed with sales considering that most games these days make their profit from DLC and microtransactions.
@rustyduck LOL so you're suggesting that one of the biggest companies in gaming which owns many valuable IPs like COD, Elder Scrolls, Halo, and Minecraft is doomed? Hell, the Activision games including COD aren't even on the service yet.
And guess what, Sony is also putting their prior exclusives to PC, including the upcoming God of War Ragnarok, because they know that the console exclusivity model is dying, which is why the PS5 has less than 15 console exclusives while barely making profits in game sales due to their costly development. And they already saw billions wiped from their stocks due to a decrease in sales forecast.
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Re: US Sales Figures Reveal Interesting Stats About Xbox Series X|S & Hellblade 2
@TheSimulator How's Concord doing again? LOL
Re: US Sales Figures Reveal Interesting Stats About Xbox Series X|S & Hellblade 2
@TheSimulator I don't know where you get the "Xbox is failing" claim from. What are MS's stock prices and value compared to Sony's?
https://companiesmarketcap.com/video-games/largest-video-game-companies-by-market-cap/
And Sony itself is not exactly in a healthy position. The gaming division is pretty much the only one keeping the rest of the company afloat. Meanwhile it lost billions from its stock market due to a cut in sales forecast, and its practice of paying hundreds of millions to Disney for the Spiderman license, which also takes a cut from every copy sold, is not a sustainable strategy either.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/19/sony-gaming-margin-questioned-after-ps5-sales-cut-sparks-stock-plunge.html
Re: US Sales Figures Reveal Interesting Stats About Xbox Series X|S & Hellblade 2
@TheSimulator Who's comparing Hellblade 2 to Dark Souls other than you? Even the first Hellblade is noted for being a short single player narrative adventure. Completion rate means jack, because it says nothing about development costs or revenue, especially considering that AAA games these days need more than 10x the development expense and 10x the sales compared to a decade ago to break even.
May I also remind you that Sony's own Stellar Blade didn't exactly set the charts on fire? It quickly dropped out of the top 50 after two weeks.
Re: US Sales Figures Reveal Interesting Stats About Xbox Series X|S & Hellblade 2
@TheSimulator And how does personal completion of a game matter? The publishers already got their money. I already posted a link before which showed that the majority of players don't finish their games. Even highly acclaimed games like the Arkham trilogy only has 30-40% completion. Dark Souls 3 has 23%, the Dishonored games has 37-41%, and the new Hitman games has 16-22%.
https://deathisawhale.com/2021/01/20/how-many-players-actually-finish-games/
Even on the Sony side you have games like Ghost of Tsushima at 38% and Horizon Zero Dawn at 34%.
https://www.ungeek.ph/2020/09/the-last-of-us-2-has-one-of-the-highest-completion-rates-of-any-ps4-game/
Re: US Sales Figures Reveal Interesting Stats About Xbox Series X|S & Hellblade 2
@TheSimulator Yet research found that only 10-20% of gamers finish the games they purchased
https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/17/gdc-most-players-donat-finish-games
Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier
@IOI You're in for a rude awakening if you think Sony never closes any of its studios nor jack up the prices on PSN.
Re: US Sales Figures Reveal Interesting Stats About Xbox Series X|S & Hellblade 2
@GuyinPA75 Are we even subscribed to the same service? You reckon Diablo 4 is a SNES platformer? Control? Lies of P? Yakuza Like a Dragon? All of which would cost hundreds if bought from a physical store?
And sales is not the same as profit, which is why the games that make the most profit are F2P mobile games packed with microtransactions.
Re: US Sales Figures Reveal Interesting Stats About Xbox Series X|S & Hellblade 2
@GuyinPA75 And yet Game Pass saved me hundreds in purchasing games and helped me discover many that I would have never purchased. And I don't know why you're so obsessed with sales considering that most games these days make their profit from DLC and microtransactions.
Re: US Sales Figures Reveal Interesting Stats About Xbox Series X|S & Hellblade 2
@rustyduck LOL so you're suggesting that one of the biggest companies in gaming which owns many valuable IPs like COD, Elder Scrolls, Halo, and Minecraft is doomed? Hell, the Activision games including COD aren't even on the service yet.
And guess what, Sony is also putting their prior exclusives to PC, including the upcoming God of War Ragnarok, because they know that the console exclusivity model is dying, which is why the PS5 has less than 15 console exclusives while barely making profits in game sales due to their costly development. And they already saw billions wiped from their stocks due to a decrease in sales forecast.
Re: Rumour: Gears Of War 'Collection' Could Be Coming To Xbox This Year
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