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[mayham2199]

Spider Man is their biggest game.



71 aggregated score vs 82 aggregated score.
Also Kojima is a third party, Sony is the publisher. Development costs are probably lower than have Bend waste time on a Days Gone sequel that would win them another yellow MC.
People need to stop whinning about Days Gone, get over it.

Days gone was also cheap when I got it. Picked it up for $20. Felt like it was always on sell to.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Yeah. Forcing Bend to work on The Last of Us Online which was now cancelled was way better use of their time...

They chose that path themselves and they deserve all that dogshit that comes with it

 

[DeepEnigma]

No Forbidden West sales numbers?

Bombaru!

 

[The Shepard]

How did R&C 2016 manage 7M+ but Rift Apart will probably struggle to break 4M?

Maybe they should have continued with the reboot after all.

One was a budget price £35 (if I remember correctly) at launch and the other £70.

 

[Fake]

Days Gone 2 was rejected by studio heads over at Bend. not Sony themselves.

Kojima was contractually obligated to make Death Stranding 2. He signed on to make two Death Stranding games back in 2015.

Days Gone director in the GoW director livestream told that Days Gone 2 was in production, but Sony stop the production and ask Bend to lend a help to ND.

 

[Alan Wake]

You got s in the Alan Wake 2 thread arguing with me that physical is dead and wouldn’t help sales. Where yall at @adamsapple and Alan Wake .

I've never said that physical is dead (I love buying physical myself), I've just said that digital distribution is growing with every year and that the Epic exclusive deal probably was a bigger factor than Alan Wake II being digital only.

 

[Games of Today]

What a sad joke for Days Gone. Pisses me off. I really wish The Order 1886 was on there too.

 

[Yonyx]

Where are those who said Bloodborne sold only 3 million?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Days Gone 2 was rejected by studio heads over at Bend. not Sony themselves.

Kojima was contractually obligated to make Death Stranding 2. He signed on to make two Death Stranding games back in 2015.

Yep. Sony gave them the choice to do it, and there was a CULTural shift in the studio when they went down the DEI death knell.

Which is why those mainly responsible for Day's Gone are not with them anymore.

 

[Tomi]

Why people dont like Returnal
I am happy about 1 million, but guys cmon, game is awesome

 

[Woopah]

digital splits are lower for single player games than multiplayer games.

 

[SJRB]

Lmao those Death Stranding numbers.

 

[zapper]

How did R&C 2016 manage 7M+ but Rift Apart will probably struggle to break 4M?

Maybe they should have continued with the reboot after all.

rift apart launched only for ps5 at full price when the console wasn't available while the ps4 chapter was on a much larger base and at a budget price.

bloodbornes sales are surprising, incredible how they haven't brought out a remastered and PC version yet

 

[rofif]

Lmao those Death Stranding numbers.

Lmao what?
It's great numbers. 4 mil! and only 35% physical!
4mil is insane for Death Stranding. good numbers

 

[TGO]

Just as I suspected Last Of Us 2 went woke & could only sell 10 million the people responded with their wallets that will teach them.

It didn't even do that, look at the sell through, over a million units have been sitting on shelves for a long time

 

[Calverz]

They need to release demons souls remake onto pc where it will be appreciated more!

 

[Shakka43]

I still think there will be a Days Gone 2 at some point. They can't be that dumb.

 

[SlimySnake]

Days Gone director in the GoW director livestream told that Days Gone 2 was in production, but Sony stop the production and ask Bend to lend a help to ND.

I remember that interview and Jason's reporting confirmed that while some of Bend's team was asked to help ND with factions, the core team with the director worked for 6 months on a pitch for Days Gone 2 which was rejected by studio heads, not Sony.

They then began working on an Uncharted spinoff which was then once again, cancelled internally as they didnt like the meddling from ND. Sony has been nothing but accepting of their choices. The director said that he has no issues with Sony's execs. Bend studio heads on the other hand.....

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Some of these sold waaaay more than I thought. 7M of Days Gone and they didn’t want to make a sequel?

Straight white married male. Not a good look

 

[Ma-Yuan]

Good to see physical releases are leading strong

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

They need to release demons souls remake onto pc where it will be appreciated more!

Ya can get fucked

 

[SlimySnake]

Why people dont like Returnal
I am happy about 1 million, but guys cmon, game is awesome

its a rougelike shooter with no story. you cant ask $70 for that game. At $40 it wouldve sold very well.

 

[Aenima]

But where is the indication of the combine sales?

The last sales chart leak was indeed separeting the remaster from the base game, so that sales numbers are probably PS4 version alone.

It says in the document that is TLOU PS4.
Naughty Dog told TLOU franshise combined sold 37 million by end of December 2022. So if you take out the 10 million from TLOU2, it means TLOU 1 sold a total of 27 million.

19 million for Horizon is still super impressive for a new IP from a studio that just made First Person Shooters.

 

[Xtib81]

And these fuckers ditched a potential days gone 2.. goddamn

 

[ungalo]

So ultimately Ratchet was profitable from what we're seeing here ?

 

[Unknown?]

Days Gone and Ghost did well for a new IP.

edit: Driveclub is my favorite. Dude, this game did well after all even with that shit launch.

Most of those numbers were when it was $5 though.

 

[rofif]

And these fuckers ditched a potential days gone 2.. goddamn

Days Gone was such a mess. I didn't really liked it.
But it's a perfect template for a sequel

 

[Fake]

I remember that interview and Jason's reporting confirmed that while some of Bend's team was asked to help ND with factions, the core team with the director worked for 6 months on a pitch for Days Gone 2 which was rejected by studio heads, not Sony.

They then began working on an Uncharted spinoff which was then once again, cancelled internally as they didnt like the meddling from ND. Sony has been nothing but accepting of their choices. The director said that he has no issues with Sony's execs. Bend studio heads on the other hand.....

He told before quit that Bend Studios would accepted helping ND only 'IF' after doing Sony help them with their particular project.

To be honest, I prefer believe in the Days Gone director in this case. He was there, Bend Studios members won't talk anything because they would break Sony contract. He in other hand have nothing to lose revealing this information.
And we knowing about DG2 being stop was by him, not by Jason.

 

[kazuyamishima]

The RC: rift apart numbers are until March 2022.

The game already made its money back and some more. But some people will continue the narrative that it lost $8 million.

 

[Mozzarella]

This leak shows that Bloodborne port is next! after TLOU2

 

[Sybrix]

22 million for Days Gone on PC?

Am i reading that right?

 

[Xtib81]

Days Gone was such a mess. I didn't really liked it.
But it's a perfect template for a sequel

It was a mixed bag for sure, but damn it had potential. I enjoyed my time with it.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

R&C 2016 may have had it's sales... boosted... by people who "bought" it for free. I forget what the promo was on that.

22 million for Days Gone on PC?

Am i reading that right?

That has to be a typo.

 

[Fake]

It says in the document that is TLOU PS4.
Naughty Dog told TLOU franshise combined sold 37 million by end of December 2022. So if you take out the 10 million from TLOU2, it means TLOU 1 sold a total of 27 million.

19 million for Horizon is still super impressive for a new IP from a studio that just made First Person Shooters.

Dude, most of the sales the blogs usually told us don't really match with the charts numbers leaks, so figures.

Either this chart is fake or the sales figures companies give to us are not true or misleading.

 

[Sybrix]

R&C 2016 may have had it's sales... boosted... by people who "bought" it for free. I forget what the promo was on that.



That has to be a typo.

its $22million.

I thought it was 22 million units sold. duh lol.

 

[bitbydeath]

Days gone hordes had so much potential to be much more, and the fact that the game actually sold well, it's a shambles sony have dumped the IP.

What are they smoking.

Why do people keep repeating this nonsense?
Days Gone was never dumped, Sony mentioned it was one of their best new IP’s of last gen, have celebrated it in numerous financials, and even green-lit a movie.

Also:

 

[Kaiserstark]

No Forbidden West sales numbers?

Guerrilla said back in May, that the game sold 8.4 millions of copies taking lifetime franchise sales to 32.7 million units and has shifted more copies than its predecessor had after a year.

This is huge numbers for a franchise with only two games and a small VR game.

Sony says Horizon Forbidden West has sold 8.4m copies, taking the series to 32.7m | VGC

Developer Guerrilla “can’t wait” for players to find out where the franchise is headed…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Hypereides]

Straight white married male. Not a good look

Oof, can't have that. That's not politically correct enough, Mr. Morris. Especially, with all the female ogling and flirting. That's an instant 5/10.

 

[64bitmodels]

IK it sounds a bit weird but this chart really proves to me that these execs should stop chasing the 10+ million sales dragon since most titles don't even reach that unless it's some gigantic major IP.

does every game need to hit double digit millions to really be considered a success?

 

[Shakka43]

Most of those numbers were when it was $5 though.

My guesstimath rounds it at about $30 per unit sold, so not bat a all.

 

[Woopah]

Lmao what?
It's great numbers. 4 mil! and only 35% physical!
4mil is insane for Death Stranding. good numbers

Its 35% digital, 65% physical.

 

[Mr Moose]

Why would Insomniac have any of this info?

 

[rofif]

Its 35% digital, 65% physical.

yeah ain't that amazing !

 

[BrunoCoel]

It already has, showing number of players and average player time.

Do you have a link to the bolded?

Oh Wow and these documents are from 2021. Sony is really ahead of time.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Oof, can't have that. That's not politically correct enough, Mr. Morris. Especially, with all the female ogling and flirting. That's an instant 5/10.

I just wish it wasn't true

I bet they go back to it one day though!

 

[Woopah]

yeah ain't that amazing !

Physical is very very important for single player games.

 

[Aenima]

Dude, most of the sales the blogs usually told us don't really match with the charts numbers leaks, so figures.

Either this chart is fake or the sales figures companies give to us are not true or misleading.

I dunno what numbers are you finding hard to believe. Naughty Dog Anounced 37 million for TLOU franchise, take the 10 million from TLOU2 and just do the math.

Herman anounced 20 million for Horizon Zero Dawn across PS4 and PC.

 

[Calverz]

Ya can get fucked

You ok hun?

 

[onQ123]

It didn't even do that, look at the sell through, over a million units have been sitting on shelves for a long time

You're kidding right?

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Days Gone director in the GoW director livestream told that Days Gone 2 was in production, but Sony stop the production and ask Bend to lend a help to ND.

That is not what he said.

He said the game was canned internally. Did you actually listen to the interview?