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DonFerrari on 23 May 2018

Seems like Sony strategy of spreading AAA outside of Holidays keeps working like a charm.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari on 23 May 2018
PortisheadBiscuit said:
So XB1 and Switch didn't do as bad in April as people made it out to be, PS4 just did REALLY REALLY good. Good to see such gargantuan numbers, console gaming is alive.

XB1 and Switch did ok, although people were expecting more for Switch.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 23 May 2018
JRPGfan said:

"The audience for those big story-driven games... I won’t say it isn’t as large, but they’re not as consistent,"
"You’ll have things like Zelda or Horizon Zero Dawn that’ll come out, and they’ll do really well, but they don’t have the same impact that they used to have" - Phil


God of War must be the expection to the rule then :P

I can't remember an AAA 1st party SP focused game that bombed for PS4...

Knack 2 isn't AAA, KZ was a launch title expected to sell low... besides that? Don't remember.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

LiquorandGunFun on 23 May 2018

good news for the industry, and well deserved with great IPs.



 

Barkley on 23 May 2018
DonFerrari said:
JRPGfan said:

"The audience for those big story-driven games... I won’t say it isn’t as large, but they’re not as consistent,"
"You’ll have things like Zelda or Horizon Zero Dawn that’ll come out, and they’ll do really well, but they don’t have the same impact that they used to have" - Phil


God of War must be the expection to the rule then :P

I can't remember an AAA 1st party SP focused game that bombed for PS4...

Knack 2 isn't AAA, KZ was a launch title expected to sell low... besides that? Don't remember.

The Order 1886, with 1.62m retail. Though for a new IP I wouldn't call that "bombing" necessarily, it's still over twice as much as Quantum Break on XBO.



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The_Liquid_Laser on 23 May 2018
Shadow1980 said:

Relevant chart I posted in the NPD thread last night:

Thanks for posting this chart.  Wow, what happened to the Wii in 2008?  I wouldn't have even thought they would sell that much due to normal supply limitations.



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Tmfwang on 23 May 2018
DonFerrari said:
JRPGfan said:

"The audience for those big story-driven games... I won’t say it isn’t as large, but they’re not as consistent,"
"You’ll have things like Zelda or Horizon Zero Dawn that’ll come out, and they’ll do really well, but they don’t have the same impact that they used to have" - Phil


God of War must be the expection to the rule then :P

I can't remember an AAA 1st party SP focused game that bombed for PS4...

Knack 2 isn't AAA, KZ was a launch title expected to sell low... besides that? Don't remember.

Order 1886? A good, but short, game :)



Predicted 15+ million lifetime-sales for God of War:

- http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=234612&page=1

DonFerrari on 23 May 2018
Barkley said:
DonFerrari said:

I can't remember an AAA 1st party SP focused game that bombed for PS4...

Knack 2 isn't AAA, KZ was a launch title expected to sell low... besides that? Don't remember.

The Order 1886, with 1.62m retail. Though for a new IP I wouldn't call that "bombing" necessarily, it's still over twice as much as Quantum Break on XBO.

Good remembering, although 1.62M isn't totally bad I would say it is lower than expectation.

CGI-Quality said:
DonFerrari said:

I can't remember an AAA 1st party SP focused game that bombed for PS4...

Knack 2 isn't AAA, KZ was a launch title expected to sell low... besides that? Don't remember.

I don't believe Shadowfall fell short of commercial expectations, however, selling more than 3 and exactly what 2 did.

Already got that remembered in the previous answer... although I wouldn't say it is a bomb, just a low seller.

And KZ, I just remembered the critical reception on VGC, never checked the sales, so my fault.

Tmfwang said:
DonFerrari said:

I can't remember an AAA 1st party SP focused game that bombed for PS4...

Knack 2 isn't AAA, KZ was a launch title expected to sell low... besides that? Don't remember.

Order 1886? A good, but short, game :)

Two remembered before you =p

But yes I liked the game, although the price was higher.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

GOWTLOZ on 23 May 2018
DonFerrari said:
Seems like Sony strategy of spreading AAA outside of Holidays keeps working like a charm.

Microsoft did it too with Sea of Thieves and it worked for them as well. It sold 2 million in a week. If it were a good game it would've been massive.



DonFerrari on 23 May 2018
GOWTLOZ said:
DonFerrari said:
Seems like Sony strategy of spreading AAA outside of Holidays keeps working like a charm.

Microsoft did it too with Sea of Thieves and it worked for them as well. It sold 2 million in a week. If it were a good game it would've been massive.

Yep, SoT certainly have gained more limelight than if it launched near Holiday (but from what I remember it had 2M playing not buying).

CGI-Quality said:
DonFerrari said: 

Already got that remembered in the previous answer... although I wouldn't say it is a bomb, just a low seller.

And KZ, I just remembered the critical reception on VGC, never checked the sales, so my fault.

I'd say it bombed. Did not set out to do what was intended. I don't know what the numeric expectation was, but one can easily deduce that it did not succeed.

That it didn't succeed there is no question. And I also have no problem with you assuming it bombed even more when we consider that Sony didn't even requested more games from them.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."