Recore only sold 56,733 units in its first week.

[Nuvendil]

LudicrousSpeed said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Not sure if Sony's MO is give sequels to medicore games in spite of respectable sales, atleast not immediately.

Had it reviewed well with same sales, a sequel would be more likely.

If Recore continues I imagine it will be a smaller scale project. I get the impression it will achieve some cult status.

Sony marketed that game very well and suckered a lot of people into buying it based on hype alone and graphics in some cases. I remember when early copies were being played, people were genuinely shocked by how linear and extremely short it was being reported as, to the point where people playing the game early were attacked and called liars.

 

I highly doubt Sony can pull that off twice. People will know better this time.

Which is HILARIOUS and shows how little the zealots actually paid attention to what the developers were actually *saying*.  Cause they talked about how they wanted it short and how they were going with 30fps because it feels better all under the big buzzword of the time "cinematic" (incidentally, notice how sharply the use of that fell after Assassin's Creed Unity and The Order, both games defending technical limitations, length, or dumb design decisions under the vague "it's more cinematic" bs, were put the wringer by consumer and reviewer alike).  This is a common thing I see these days, self-perpetuated hype culture that is sometimes more toxic and misleading than the hype culture the industry actually tries to stir up.