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Soundwave on 13 June 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

What is the bigger flop? Senua's Saga or Starfield? Starfield is the like the 3rd most expensive game ever made, I don't think they've even sold 8 million copies. 

Senua's Saga is the biggest flop of this year thus far that's pretty clear. Best looking game on the market is the biggest bomb of the year. There's a funny one for the bingo card. 

Starfield is the biggest flop of the generation I would say, Microsoft will never probably say it but it likely was a large part of the reason they are basically going multiplatform. You can't spend that much money on a game, have it sell that below par, and then think even Microsoft's board of directors would be cool with doing that multiple more times. 

Starfield probably cut Phil Spencer's balls off at Microsoft, he has no power now, he is operating under what the board of directors wants now. It's clear he has no virtually no power there any longer. 

Ever heard of the order 1886 or kill zone 2 and 3, how about crysis 2 and 3 all were graphical stunners and way cooler looking then Senua's Saga which looks stupid, a d they all flopped it's nothing new. 

Starfield failed cause it was too ambitious and focused on the wrong things it's graphics are nice but not top 5 best looking games.

Basically you want developers to stop making ambitious open world games with big budgets.

Crysis 2 sold over 3 million copies at least, even Order 1886 was over 2 million, Senua's Saga is trending below HiFi Rush, that's like horrendous. 

Microsoft paid $120 mill for this studio too, and then $80+ mill probably for the game, I'm pretty sure the reason they bought the studio is because they thought this game would be a hit XBox showcase title. Yikes. 

Wouldn't want to be in the office when Phil is explaining this latest mess to his bosses higher up. 

If Skyrim is Wii Sports, and Fallout is Wii Fit, then Starfield is Bethesda's Wii Music, lol. A sales dud with a lot of hype as the next big thing. 

I think this game basically killed the XBox, when it failed, Microsoft's higher ups said to Phil "enough of this, we're basically going third party and you get one shot with Call of Duty on Game Pass and if that doesn't work, you're really in deep shit then".