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Xxain said:

SONY gutted SONY Japan Studio. Kadokawa or lets be serious, Fromsoftware, could be an awesome replacement assuming they're funded and given the ability to go beyond Soul games. I would love to see more non souls games from them and maybe some ressurections. Here's  my problems:

1. "This" SONY. We know that From will get kingly treatment. What about Acquire (Tenchu, Way of the Samurai, Octopath), Spike Chunsoft's own titles (Danganronpa, Mystery Dungeon) titles that Spike Chunsoft developed but not owned (Pokemon, Dragon Ball ext). They tend to make niche products that do not align with what "this" SONY is doing. 

2. Another 3rd party being gobbled up and potentially wipe out. Too many developers being folded after being bought out. 

This could really help SONY out in Japan though, but under "this" SONY, I'm not looking positive on this.

No...  You get FromSoft, you don't make them do anything else...
They are the masters of Soul's type games. LET THEM COOK.

New Elden Ring and your getting 20-30million sales.

Why f*** with the recipe.
Let them do what their good at.


Also Yes.... Acquire will still make games like Tenchi, Way of the samurai, Octopath ect.
Let them do that, why wouldn't Sony want that?



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JRPGfan said:
Xxain said:

SONY gutted SONY Japan Studio. Kadokawa or lets be serious, Fromsoftware, could be an awesome replacement assuming they're funded and given the ability to go beyond Soul games. I would love to see more non souls games from them and maybe some ressurections. Here's  my problems:

1. "This" SONY. We know that From will get kingly treatment. What about Acquire (Tenchu, Way of the Samurai, Octopath), Spike Chunsoft's own titles (Danganronpa, Mystery Dungeon) titles that Spike Chunsoft developed but not owned (Pokemon, Dragon Ball ext). They tend to make niche products that do not align with what "this" SONY is doing. 

2. Another 3rd party being gobbled up and potentially wipe out. Too many developers being folded after being bought out. 

This could really help SONY out in Japan though, but under "this" SONY, I'm not looking positive on this.

No...  You get FromSoft, you don't make them do anything else...
They are the masters of Soul's type games. LET THEM COOK.

New Elden Ring and your getting 20-30million sales.

Why f*** with the recipe.
Let them do what their good at.


Also Yes.... Acquire will still make games like Tenchi, Way of the samurai, Octopath ect.
Let them do that, why wouldn't Sony want that?

New Elden Ring will not sell 20-30 million as a PS exclusive. They would have to release it on PC as well in that case.



KLXVER said:
JRPGfan said:

No...  You get FromSoft, you don't make them do anything else...
They are the masters of Soul's type games. LET THEM COOK.

New Elden Ring and your getting 20-30million sales.

Why f*** with the recipe.
Let them do what their good at.


Also Yes.... Acquire will still make games like Tenchi, Way of the samurai, Octopath ect.
Let them do that, why wouldn't Sony want that?

New Elden Ring will not sell 20-30 million as a PS exclusive. They would have to release it on PC as well in that case.

Something like 18% of sales were from Xbox.
The other 82%+ are Playstation and PC.
If its not on xbox..... some of those guys will get it on pc or buy a playstation for it.
The love for these games by certain folks are at that level... the "alright, I'll buy a console" level.

Maybe instead of 20m it does 18m sales, without xbox.
The upside is maybe you get some more playstation console owners, that then also buy other games ect.
Yes, ofc any FromSoft souls game will be on PC.



JRPGfan said:
Xxain said:

SONY gutted SONY Japan Studio. Kadokawa or lets be serious, Fromsoftware, could be an awesome replacement assuming they're funded and given the ability to go beyond Soul games. I would love to see more non souls games from them and maybe some ressurections. Here's  my problems:

1. "This" SONY. We know that From will get kingly treatment. What about Acquire (Tenchu, Way of the Samurai, Octopath), Spike Chunsoft's own titles (Danganronpa, Mystery Dungeon) titles that Spike Chunsoft developed but not owned (Pokemon, Dragon Ball ext). They tend to make niche products that do not align with what "this" SONY is doing. 

2. Another 3rd party being gobbled up and potentially wipe out. Too many developers being folded after being bought out. 

This could really help SONY out in Japan though, but under "this" SONY, I'm not looking positive on this.

No...  You get FromSoft, you don't make them do anything else...
They are the masters of Soul's type games. LET THEM COOK.

New Elden Ring and your getting 20-30million sales.

Why f*** with the recipe.
Let them do what their good at.


Also Yes.... Acquire will still make games like Tenchi, Way of the samurai, Octopath ect.
Let them do that, why wouldn't Sony want that?

Because they wont sell 10 million+ copies. 

Elden Ring will not do that much on PS consoles alone. 

Why fuck with the recipe? Because over time people will get tired of these games. Having other active IP's to let SOULS games rest every once in awhile would be Ideal. 



JRPGfan said:
KLXVER said:

New Elden Ring will not sell 20-30 million as a PS exclusive. They would have to release it on PC as well in that case.

Something like 18% of sales were from Xbox.
The other 82% are Playstation and PC.
If its not on xbox..... some of those guys will get it on pc or buy a playstation for it.
The love for these games by certain folks are at that level... the "alright, I'll buy a console" level.

Maybe instead of 20m it does 18m sales, without xbox.
The upside is maybe you get some more playstation console owners, that then also buy other games ect.
Yes, ofc any FromSoft souls game will be on PC.

30% on Xbox according to what Ive seen, but I cant find more than one site claiming that and Im not sure its very trustworthy.

Also Demons Souls is not on PC, so not every Souls game...



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KLXVER said:

30% on Xbox according to what Ive seen, but I cant find more than one site claiming that and Im not sure its very trustworthy.

Also Demons Souls is not on PC, so not every Souls game...

That seems high especially considering PC is probably 40-50%. Maybe that's just the PS/Xbox split.



 

 

 

 

 

haxxiy said:
KLXVER said:

30% on Xbox according to what Ive seen, but I cant find more than one site claiming that and Im not sure its very trustworthy.

Also Demons Souls is not on PC, so not every Souls game...

That seems high especially considering PC is probably 40-50%. Maybe that's just the PS/Xbox split.

I saw 41% on PS consoles, 29% on PC and 30% on Xbox consoles. But again I can only find one site breaking it down per system and I dont know how accurate that is since I can only find combined sales on other sites.



KLXVER said:
haxxiy said:

That seems high especially considering PC is probably 40-50%. Maybe that's just the PS/Xbox split.

I saw 41% on PS consoles, 29% on PC and 30% on Xbox consoles. But again I can only find one site breaking it down per system and I dont know how accurate that is since I can only find combined sales on other sites.

That was for the UK only though after launch week..



Blood_Tears said:
KLXVER said:

I saw 41% on PS consoles, 29% on PC and 30% on Xbox consoles. But again I can only find one site breaking it down per system and I dont know how accurate that is since I can only find combined sales on other sites.

That was for the UK only though after launch week..

Maybe the site thought it was worldwide. Dont say anything about UK only. Says 25 million worldwide as of june 30th and then breaks down the sales.



KLXVER said:
haxxiy said:

That seems high especially considering PC is probably 40-50%. Maybe that's just the PS/Xbox split.

I saw 41% on PS consoles, 29% on PC and 30% on Xbox consoles. But again I can only find one site breaking it down per system and I dont know how accurate that is since I can only find combined sales on other sites.

The one I saw, had PC at like 40%+ and basically same with Playstation, with Xbox at 18%.
I think PC was the biggest one of the 3 btw... (not by much, but a slight bit bigger than PS split).

I seriously doubt 30% of all Eldren Ring sales were on Xbox.