Saw the Housemarque interview and it sucks that some "gaming news sites" used what they said about FromSoftware to create clickbait like "Housemarque compares to FS" or "Housemarque wants to learn from FS" when what they actually said was that they want to keep making the kind of games they make and keep fighting to show players their games are worth buying like how FS and other have done in the past, immediately after they said that they laughed and clarified that they don't expect FS level of success.
It was good to see that when they were asked about SAROS sales they answered without any visible stress, maaaaaybe they won't be hit. An interesting detail was that they mentioned twice how having a strong catalogue of titles that boost their sales with the release of a new one always helps, that tells me the boost on sales Returnal had from the moment SAROS was announced to the moment it was released actually counts in whatever Sony expectations had for the game.
And finally other point that is worth mentioning is how they left the door open for more content for SAROS and the possibility of making a smaller game than SAROS next time, which I think would be smart from Sony, if they already realized giving them double or triple the budget won't double or triple the sales and they already have a dedicated playerbase then let them make smaller games (at the scale of Returnal) and switch volume with frequency. Insomniac can't be the only studio that doesn't take 5 years to release games. Firesprite could also be in that group, if Until Dawn 2 works, those kind of games can be released every 3 years.
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