Days Gone looks really meh

[EricHiggin]

twintail said:

EricHiggin said:

No, but you didn't offer any other explanation so how I was supposed to know you possibly thought there was more to it? Why was it without merit? You didn't provide anything solid to back that up. Just because PS said is was for polish doesn't mean much when PS has said plenty of things and done the opposite not long afterwards, and fairly recently at that. You mentioned they put in more money. It makes a massive difference whether it's 1 dollar or 1 million dollars. Just because they haven't had demo time doesn't mean they've been spending the majority of their time on Days Gone.

If I were PS, even if I were launching TLOU2, I wouldn't allow it to launch around the same time as a COD or GTA or RDR game, etc. Your just asking to be overshadowed to some degree. That's money lost for almost no reason. You might as well launch slightly later and have the spotlight and sales to yourself. That's why I said sleeper in the first place. The game probably has a lot more to it, we just aren't seeing it right now. Days Gone and TLOU2 are different but are much more the same than the majority of other games, launching around this time frame, and in this case by SIE themselves. Both should do just fine, but some of that will no doubt be due to strategic launch positioning.

tbqh you introduced the idea that the delay was solely for improvements, I didn't. I was merely remarking on your idea that Sony doesn't want the game to be all it can be.

I can at least substantiate my claim, you can't. Just because you don't accept the potential reasoning based on evidence we have is not my problem. But you making baseless claims that Sony might want to limit Days Gone because they want to prop up TloU2 doesn't even make sense, when we consider that TLou2 is a sequel to a 15 million (and still selling) game.

As for TloU2 launching next to other big games (first you claimed DG, now TLoU2?), we are talking about completely different games. Can sales be limited at first? Yeah perhaps, but that is not always the case.

Either way, DG will not be affected by TloU2 and vice versa.

I never introduced that, you did in reply to my initial post. Your the one arguing it's mostly for improvements, or your argument makes no sense.

I didn't claim PS was holding back with Days Gone, I said "I wonder". Maybe they might have, maybe not, who knows? So every sequel to a successful new IP is guaranteed success?

I claimed neither. I was simply pointing out that bad decisions are bad decisions. If I told you I would give you $2,000 every day for two weeks straight, starting today, or you could wait just one week and then I'd give you $5,000 per day for a week instead, which would you pick? Assuming you don't desperately need any money you can get your hands on this instant, picking the $2,000 now option would be the wrong business choice. PS isn't desperate for money, has it's content gaps filled, and is the market leader by miles, so they'll just wait for the bigger payout overall when the time is right.

Well DG could be effected by TLOU2 if it launches sooner than later and is a much better game overall, because people who haven't bought into DG yet may very well skip it at that point. TLOU2 probably doesn't have to worry all that much unless it ends up a total train wreck, and that's pretty darn unlikely with ND at the helm.