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Hardstuck-Platinum on 23 July 2024
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Norion said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Starfield is a game that literally would have had 100X the effect on xbox sales than college football. Yet, here you are downplaying the effect of starfield on sales and bigging up  the effect of college football. At the time, critically starfield did not have a weak reception (mid 80's on metacritic). People's thoughts of it changed a lot over time when they realised that starfield was a shallow game with little substance. Again, Starfield was one of the most hyped games I'd ever seen in my life. The game was never going to live up to the hype but the hype alone was enough to save the game and give it good sales and public reception

You don't seem to know that CF 25 is a highly anticipated game for a lot of people, over 2 million spent extra to play it a few days early so that's over 2 million sales already before the game even fully launches. On Xbox specifically it's not gonna have as big a launch as Starfield but this is absolutely a notable release so the gap in effect is not as large as you're making it to be.

And yes, Starfield absolutely has had weak reception overall. While it had a good launch and reviews negativity towards it quickly increased soon afterwards resulting in it having bad legs making it so its console sales boost was limited to its launch. You've made your feelings about Xbox well known so I'm surprised you're arguing that Starfield had good public reception when it has been one of Xbox's bigger blunders of the past couple years.

  

It seems that CF is bigger and more popular than I was giving it credit for, but when has a single sports game ever significantly improved the sales trends of a console? I have heard some anecdotal stories of people that work in retail in the USA, seeing Xbox Series S consoles selling out, but unlike Starfield the Amazon sales charts aren't backing it up. On Amazon USA CF is selling better on PS5, and the PS5 is ranked 13 in best sellers, with XBSS not even in the top 100. The XBSX has also stayed where it has always been, which definitely wasn't the case with Starfield. Both the XBSS and X had big jumps on Amazon during Starfield release.