>>738750536 Unlikely, unless 100% of copies were sold on the Playstation store so Sony was getting the entire 69.99 and not having to give 30% to a storefront like Amazon or Gamestop. Also, 22 million isn't that good considering the budget is estimated to be about the same as Alan Wake 2 which was ~80 million.
>>738751063 >sold well The budget was allegedly twice what Returnal's was, which would mean $70m or so. Selling 1/3rd of what you need is not 'sold well.'
>>738751478 >we took four years to waste $50m of someone else's money on our saar cuckold sim game This makes me think of the Hellblade studio wasting millions of Xbox's money to make an unappealing game that would never make back its dev budget.
>>738751063 Indie games sometimes make more than that. Not even talking about Hollow Knight tier successes. 22 million for a AAA snoy game is a a MASSIVE FUCKING FLOP. Housemarque are finished. Expect them to get shut down by next year. I still have no idea who this game was for? Even jeets got put off by the cuck angle.
beat it earlier today, I liked it but much like returnal I didn't "get" the story, felt like nothing was real and everything happening in the game was all in his head or something
>>738755154 It didn't have "limited" marketing at all, it just didn't generate mass interest. Also, there currently is a 93M PS5 install base yet is selling slower than Returnal that released at 8M.
>>738756285 I thought it was mid with the werewolves looking like complete shit because they probably couldn't figure out how to do fur in their engine.
Until Dawn is still the best thing Supermassive ever made and everything else feels like them trying and failing to get back to that peak.
>>738756478 >Didn't they just put a new game out? Yes, that's what I was talking about earlier. It's called Directive 8020, came out today, and is big on woke (black woman main character, mystery meat space ship crew, and some anon said it was preachy about girlboss stuff)
You can call me a schizo, but I do not believe that modern games (also movies) are made for profit. It's a worldwide psi-op. I mean, just look at the industry: nigs are EVERYWHERE. games, movies, commercials. I live in Norway and I have never seen so many niggers in real life, as they show on tv or billboards. "People" who do it, do not care about profit.
>sony wants me to believe that this sold more than marathon, one of their most shilled and astroturfed titles ever released Exactly whom are they trying to fool here?
>>738756070 The main problem is with this black female protagonists or just female protagonists in these modern games is they all are unrelatable amalgamation of what white millenial Karen theatre kids thinks strong black female characters should look and act like. So they all came off as the same unappealing dull characters.
>>738756598 That's still cope. The minimum for a AAA game these days is at least 1 million. Assuming most people bought Pragmata at around 50 dollars adjusting for conversion, that's still around 50,000,000 revenue. Barely enough to cover dev costs since AAA games nowadays are approaching 80 million dollars just for development
>>738754507 that really depends on how much you liked returnal if you're itching for something with that gameplay yeah, if you're not in a hurry wait for a sale you've probably already been spoiled anyways so it doesnt matter when you buy it
>>738756679 What the heck kek why do they think a walking sim is going to be interesting (with typical modern audience femMC to boot). I'll probably check out someone else's gameplay of it simply because it's a Supermassive game and judge it by it's own merit
>>738757381 These movie games live or die based on three things >the characters >the writing / plot >the performances
Until Dawn was good in all three respects.
The Quarry was mid in most respects but had good delivery of a mediocre plot, and it had some b-level celebs like Lance Henrikson and David Arquette.
Directive 8020 doesn't have interesting characters, the story seems to be mid, and the acting is mid. It's also now the fourth or fifth movie game Supermassive made, so there's less novelty. It's just a lesser game in all respects it seems.
>>738750536 jesus christ, you know some games sell 22M copies? 22M dollars of revenue means this game probably sold what, 2 orders of magnitude less than those games? so not even a million copies?
>>738762137 She's far too attractive to headline a game. Black women MUST be front and center, but they have to be the gorilla abominations like you see on the streets in Saarfield.
>>738763906 I think it's obvious that they should have been Better Men.
But don't worry, the modern audience is sure to show up this weekend and boost the game's numbers into the stratosphere. Dare I say, things might blast off
>>738763994 >the modern audience I'm the CEO of the modern audience. We just play Ketsui and Spikeout on our Steam Decks because that's what our hero, Mork, would want from us.
>>738750536 >estimates >"it's only platform" typo >gross revenue, emphasis on gross, not net >ambiguously separating copies sold and copies sold in early access, the data of which can be used twice to pad the number >somehow able to bring up other games each players also played
>>738755167 yes, if you remember the scene with seb dying in the alley, that was the only other time there were police sirens and lights. he's actually returning to reality where cops are going to take him away, it was all in his head.
They do, but it is usually shooter mobile games. They played Pubg Mobile until it got banned by their Indian government. Now they play an Indian version of Pubg made by Krafton. One of the things that suck about mobile gaming is how many pajeets play mobile shooter games. I'm now going to try and get a job and save up money to get a video game console so I can eventually play console games again.
>>738762137 She's not capital B Black though, i.e. American dindus She's African black and attractive to boot. Western gaming media won't stand for that if a black woman like Sheva headlines a game
>>738765475 there's a couple times where you get back with your wife, only for her to pull you out of it. she's teasing you the entire time. and your suit is saying you're not worthy of her.
>>738750536 They used the incorrect version of "its". The plural is possessive without an apostrophe to avoid confusion because "it's" is a contraction of "it is". This is a high school English mistake and this is supposed to be an analytics firm? My ass saaaar.
>>738750704 Reminder it's a 70 bucks game. Even if you assume the devs are getting the full money that's barely 300k sales, if you account for snoy's cut and taxes it can go for as low as 150k sales. I have seen literal who porn games on DLsite with more sales than that.
>>738750536 That's fucking terrible. Also these guys were dead on with Yotei and got shit on until Sony confirmed the numbers themselves. But 22million revenue for a first party Sony game is shit. Unless the game's budget was dirt cheap. For comparison, Yotei generated about 150 million during its first week. With an estimated 80million budget. That game is successful despite retards complaining about it, but Saros isn't.
>>738750536 >alinea analytics you know sales are utter dogshit when even the literal crypto scam larping as PS "analysts" can't make the numbers look good
>>738765146 >Have a genuine zeitgeist moment on your hand >All you need to do is sit back and let the hype was over everyone >Instead, fuck it in the ass and kills its momentum with PSN bullshit >Go ahead and sell your K Pop Demon Hunters movie to Netflix for dirt cheap while you're at it Sony are sitting on literal gold in terms of studios and talent but do everything in their power to ass fuck them repeatedly. I don't get it.
>>738750536 It was fairly obvious that the game bombed. It took over a week until we got >one< thread of actual discussion and everybody agreed that it was a downgrade from Returnal
>the highest income households of any ethnicity in the US >the CEOs of all the top grossing companies >high-ranked professionals and executives in every profession and occupation you can think of We can't stop winning Indiabros. I don't blame the world for being jealous of us lol
>>738755696 Black woman, and it's not even close. Far cry 4, and some prince of Persia sort of shit work. You can't make a black female lead AAA without the consultants fucking shit up, and at best you end up with Forespoken. Capcom could do something with shiva, but they aren't because of fear of protestors.
>Is Directive 8020 flopping? Yes. It has a budget the fraction of the size of this game and is still on track to lose more money.
>>738754507 Fuck no. It will be in the discount bin soon anyways.
>>738756070 >Maybe a black woman main character really is pure kryptonite for your game project. I think it is but I'm ready to be proven wrong, Anons post games that have a black woman as the main character, and it's used as a main selling point of the game, that has done financially well/ sold well. Personally I can't think of a single game but I might be wrong.
>>738780397 If you look up the old OKCupid data, that was the one demographic whose own race replied to them less than any other race. And obviously nobody else replied much either. On top of that, there were *males* in some races who got more replies than black females got from most races. Males getting more replies than a certain type of female is *insane*.
Not a popular demo. Should not be featured. This is purely DEI religious nonsense.
Why are we still discussing sales in the big 26? No matter how well you do can you still do better than pic related? Costs peanuts to maintain servers and generates nearly $40 million each month (on IOS only).
