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DonFerrari on 21 September 2018
the-pi-guy said:

 

They finally corrected the USA today article.  Maybe the Gematsu one will follow, eventually.

"While Sony includes the sales of its $399.99 Spider-Man PlayStation 4 Pro bundle as part of its count of 3.3 million total copies of the game, it did not break out how many of the limited edition consoles were sold. The bundle's more expensive price could push the $198 million figure even higher. "

If we had the total revenue for those 3.3 reported we would know how many are bundles.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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Replicant on 21 September 2018
fauzman said:
Wow. Really impressed. Every time sony releases a new game, it sets a benchmark...and then another game comes and beats it.

Now all i need is some more variety in the types of games they publish and i will be all set.

Bold: Yeah, me too.

Titles below (not counting remakes/remasters and PSVR) are most of the games they've published this gen (and some upcoming).

Sony has mastered the action adventure genre (both linear and open world) and now I hope for a platformer (like Ape Escape), a Japanese RPG (like Legend of Dragoon), and an open world racer (like Forza Horizon).

 

Action adventure (linear): God of War + Uncharted 4 + The Order 1886 + Detroit Become Human + The Last Guardian (+ The Last of Us Part II)
Action adventure (open world): Spider-Man + Infamous Second Son + Gravity Rush 2 (+ Ghost of Tsushima + Days Gone + Death Stranding)
Western RPG: Horizon Zero Dawn
Action RPG: Bloodborne
First person shooter: Killzone Shadow Fall
Racing: Gran Turismo Sport + Driveclub
Sport: MLB The Show + Everybody's Golf
Platform: Ratchet & Clank + LittleBigPlanet 3 + Knack + Knack 2
Sandbox: (Dreams)
Arcade: Alienation + Helldivers
Puzzle: Entwined (+ Concrete Genie)
Party: SingStar + The Playroom



DonFerrari on 21 September 2018
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
Is Fan boy word ok here 😕?

You can't accuse others of being, but if someone wants to say he is or that he doesn't want to be it's fine. The moderation is for going off-topic to attack the achievement and inciting flamming.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Intrinsic on 21 September 2018

I still havent picked this up because I am hell bent on finishing persona 5 or else my bcklog will never be addressed. Sigh.



Dr.Vita on 21 September 2018

Holy f*ck this is just insane!!! Never would I have expected the game to sell that crazy, Spider-Man is truly a beast!!!

Can't wait to get my hands on this one!




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oniyide on 21 September 2018
quickrick said:
Amnesia said:
I don't want to do my Nintendo fanboy, but I just remind that Odysee had performed 60% of this sale in the same amount of time (2M in 3days), with an installed base of Switch 7 times inferior than the PS4 today.

install base arguments are so flawed that they are rather pointless. wii had a 5-6x the install base for sequels of mario galaxy, and zelda, and they both sold much worse then there predecessors. 

a lot of sequels on Wii did worse. 



PEEPer0nni on 21 September 2018
Dr.Vita said:

Holy f*ck this is just insane!!! Never would I have expected the game to sell that crazy, Spider-Man is truly a beast!!!

Can't wait to get my hands on this one!

I knew this is going to happen. Just look at them views, man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zm30yeHHE



GOWTLOZ on 21 September 2018
Replicant said:
fauzman said:
Wow. Really impressed. Every time sony releases a new game, it sets a benchmark...and then another game comes and beats it.

Now all i need is some more variety in the types of games they publish and i will be all set.

Bold: Yeah, me too.

Titles below (not counting remakes/remasters and PSVR) are most of the games they've published this gen (and some upcoming).

Sony has mastered the action adventure genre (both linear and open world) and now I hope for a platformer (like Ape Escape), a Japanese RPG (like Legend of Dragoon), and an open world racer (like Forza Horizon).

 

Action adventure (linear): God of War + Uncharted 4 + The Order 1886 + Detroit Become Human + The Last Guardian (+ The Last of Us Part II)
Action adventure (open world): Spider-Man + Infamous Second Son + Gravity Rush 2 (+ Ghost of Tsushima + Days Gone + Death Stranding)
Western RPG: Horizon Zero Dawn
Action RPG: Bloodborne
First person shooter: Killzone Shadow Fall
Racing: Gran Turismo Sport + Driveclub
Sport: MLB The Show + Everybody's Golf
Platform: Ratchet & Clank + LittleBigPlanet 3 + Knack + Knack 2
Sandbox: (Dreams)
Arcade: Alienation + Helldivers
Puzzle: Entwined (+ Concrete Genie)
Party: SingStar + The Playroom

Action adventure kinda is a vast genre and the games you put don't match. You put a TPS like Uncharted and a hack and slash like God of War under the same banner. Detroit doesn't have any gameplay mechanics. Last Guardian barely had any action in it.

Bloodborne is a JRPG. You can't put 2 different subgenres based on different criteria.

Gran Turismo and Driveclub aren't the same genre. Simulation and arcade racers are distinct and appeal to different audiences.



Nate4Drake on 21 September 2018

Congrats to Insomniac and Sony. That was an amazing achievement, and expected.



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The_Liquid_Laser on 21 September 2018
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:
Wow, 3.3m is a crapton! I got Octopath Traveler around the end of August, and so I haven't started Spider-Man yet. From the footage it looks better than Spider-Man 2 on PS2 which is what I was hoping for. I wouldn't be surprised if Spider-Man is the best selling SKU for 2018 at the end of the year. Congrats to Sony!

It is cool to look back at the evolution of Spider-Man games. I was watching clips of some of the Activision ones, and it looks like it takes the best elements from all the games, not just the PS2 one. 

What other Spider-Man games have influenced this one?

I can say that I have been playing Spider-Man games for a long time, really going all the way back to the NES.  At first they were pretty disappointing (and that goes for superhero games in general).  Then the PS1 was pretty good.  That was exciting.  Then the PS2, open-world, game came out and that was the way Spider-Man was meant to be played IMO.  But then the PS3 never really got a decent open world game for Spider-Man.  I remember playing one, Spider-Man 3 I think, but it wasn't really that great.  I was afraid they were never going to make a good open-world Spider-Man again.

I'm going to pick this game up soon, as soon as I finish Octopath.  If nothing else the city looks fantastic, but it looks like they improved combat a lot too and kept web-slinging fun like in the PS2 game. 



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