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Forums - Sony Discussion - With Driveclub's success, what does it says about PS4 needing critical acclaim to sell games?

Sony has always been that pro-type of company supporting games with  varying genres and different critical receptions. Seems like Sony had a hard time last gen making non-AAA games to have terrific sales, it was not as apparent unlike the eras of PSone and PS2 whose audience were as not as reliant to critic reviews to sell games but now that it's dominating with PS4, niche games such as Vanishing of Ethan Carter making a profit out of PS4 in its release week or the fact that a heavily(and unfairly) criticized games such as Driveclub moving sales are becoming quite often for the system. With agnostic gamers on Sony's PS4 userbase who are very willing to buy games out of critic's taste or the typical gamers' radar, does it mean the golden era of gaming is upon us once again?



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DriveClub would have easily deserved critical acclaim if not for launch issues, and it certainly deserves such acclaim now.

It's refreshing to see that some consumers do their research, at least. c:



Driveclub was very heavily bundled, so a big part of the sales came from that.



DriveClub just had bad reviews due the server issues... not the game.

The game is really great.

And I can bet most sales come after they fixed the servers.



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ethomaz said:

DriveClub just had bad reviews due the server issues... not the game.

The game is really great.

And I can bet most sales come after they fixed the servers.

Don't forget it was deducted points by a lot of reviews or not being open world. Other 'linear racers' are going to be similarly critiqued, I'm sure ...



 

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First DriveClub sold on hype, then on free DLC (see below), then on bundles, then on PS+.

- Week Ending - Weekly
11th October 2014 - 344,764
18th October 2014 - 105,972
25th October 2014 - 61,265
01st November 2014 - 38,419
08th November 2014 - 25,696
15th November 2014 - 22,703
22nd November 2014 - 27,913
29th November 2014 - 169,637 (Free DLC - only EU cared)
06th December 2014 - 135,451
13th December 2014 - 125,948 - Total after 10 weeks ~ 1 million.



baloofarsan said:
First DriveClub sold on hype, then on free DLC (see below), then on bundles, then on PS+.

- Week Ending - Weekly
11th October 2014 - 344,764
18th October 2014 - 105,972
25th October 2014 - 61,265
01st November 2014 - 38,419
08th November 2014 - 25,696
15th November 2014 - 22,703
22nd November 2014 - 27,913
29th November 2014 - 169,637 (Free DLC - only EU cared)
06th December 2014 - 135,451
13th December 2014 - 125,948 - Total after 10 weeks ~ 1 million.

2 million is before PS+



all i know is that im happy that the reviews that only represent the condition of the game when it came out and NOT the condition of the game now are NOT stopping gamers from buying it right now.



You're paying for Driveclub in the PS4 bundle. It isn't coming for free so that argument is invalid.