Stellar Blade sales top 3 million, PC version sells a million in 3 days

[Trentonater]

Kyuu said:

Trentonater said:

Nioh is a different case since Playstation only published Nioh outside Japan and only on playstation, Stellar Blade is published by them globally and on pc. Sony mainly handled the localisation for nioh while with nioh 3 international publishing and localization is done by koei tecmo europe and it's honestly really easy to spot the difference. Nioh falls under sony's definition of second party but stellar blade doesn't.

The slight differences hardly matter. Sony does not own either the IP nor the developer. The developer can decide to self publish or approach another publisher for the sequel and go full multiplatform.

Once upon a time, Sony published Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. Crash was pretty much Playstation's mascot, and yet it didn't take long for it to cut ties with Sony Computer Entertainment.

All I'm saying is Stellar Blade 2 won't necessarily be a Sony published game nor a Playstation console/timed exclusive, unless the developer is contract bound to work with Sony on multiple games.

Sony publishing on pc is a big difference That's a much greater level of involvement with the overall ip that goes further than a simple deal. They are clearly tying it to the palystation brand and consider it first party while they consider their games with koei tecmo to be second party partnerships. i'm half expecting DS2 to be published on pc by them too because they contracts for the original were definitely before they were regularly publishing on pc if they didn't have a no-gamepass clause for it.