Despite the harsh criticism, Sony's new Wolverine game may have sold tremendously well, achieving nearly 2 million sales in just a few days' time.
    • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      29 days ago

      They also put out Ghost of Yotei and Marathon (yikes).

      Marvel Tokon too if you count console exclusives that are also on PC.

      Edit: Whoops, I forgot Ghost of Yotei was late last year. Unless you’re counting fiscal year starting in October I guess.

  • IamMoonPie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    So glad I canceled my pre-order for this. A three minute quick time event where you don’t have to do a damn thing?! No thanks.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Could be an echo effect. 90% of people don’t really pay attention to gaming media or hate trains - they just see a cool new game in stores while most of their attention is elsewhere.

    The “echo” element would be that if most of their knowledge of gaming is from playing things, not reading about them, they may decide “Wow, Sony usually makes great stuff, but last one I bought wasn’t great. I may sit this out.” I sort of saw that with Assassin’s Creed Unity / Syndicate. Unity was shitty and released with terrible bugs, but Syndicate was sort of okay - and Syndicate was the one that saw lots of lost sales.

  • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
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    28 days ago

    It’s more or less a remake of the last Wolverine game, right? Even the intro, i remeber falling out of a plane in that one, too

  • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Proof that gamers have no spine (once again. See also Switch 2 and PS5 sales) and that online discourse holds no prediction of real world value.