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Ryuu96 said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

This part about Clair Obscur was surprising going by online talk.

Ranked 25th on US PlayStation last week. This is one of those games that dedicated players are talking a lot about but hasn't yet crossed over into mass market. It's incredibly difficult for games to crack these lists with all the service behemoths.

— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM

I think it just goes to show how incredibly fucking difficult it is to crack into this list filled with blackhole games anymore, I mean, we know for a fact that Expedition 33 has been a big success, we know for a fact that Oblivion Remaster is performing better than it, but even Oblivion Remaster can only hit #15 on PlayStation Store without Game Pass to back it up.

Though I do think Oblivion Remaster will climb up the charts, as will Expedition 33 and I do think that #25 for Expedition 33 is a bit lower than I thought even with the blackhole games, I'd have thought maybe #16-#20 but even so, both titles have been huge successes and yet...They even struggle to enter these lists.

Almost everything on the list is either a blackhole GaaS/MP title, a F2P title, or a title which is available on Game Pass and/or PS Plus. The only exception to this is Oblivion Remaster and Assassin's Creed Shows which are both massive IPs, Lol. But it's showing to us how incredibly difficult it is, especially for single-player only titles, to get onto this list, unless they're also available on a sub service or massive IPs.

Shits crazy, it makes some of the Game Pass debuts even more impressive.

It's almost like a game has to go viral in some capacity to have any sort of chance of making a dent in the gaming landscape. The hardcore crowd just isn't enough anymore and/or we've lost a good chunk of the hardcore crowd to the black hole service games lol.