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Hitman 3 surpasses its predecessor to claim No.1 (PS5 took nearly 50% of sales)

Kerotan

Member
Yes that's crazy, would be interesting to see the rest of the European figures because Xbox tends to fare less well in Germany, Spain, France and Italy.

18m PS5s to have been produced by the end of the year isn't it. I imagine Switch sales will begin to slow down soon.
Xbox gamers not buying new games because their gamepass backlogs? Either that or xbox is fading big time in the UK. If it's 75/25 it will be 90/10 for the rest of Europe. Asia could be even higher. Crazy times.
 
PS5 imported my previous games, Xbox stood no chance.

I imagine lots of other players were in a similar spot. Xbox took all of last gen to regroup rather than pull out all the stops. Now they are hopelessly behind and will only recover under a new model or when Playstation truly screws the pooch.

And it appears Xbox waited all that time so they could rally behind another launch and then just start fucking up their business again. But now, it's in a more spread out way--Xbox Gold increase in the first quarter (followed by) as opposed to the consolidated fuck ups of the all in one TV and Gaming platform Xbox One.
 

IntentionalPun

Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
PS5 imported my previous games, Xbox stood no chance.

I imagine lots of other players were in a similar spot. Xbox took all of last gen to regroup rather than pull out all the stops. Now they are hopelessly behind and will only recover under a new model or when Playstation truly screws the pooch.

And it appears Xbox waited all that time so they could rally behind another launch and then just start fucking up their business again. But now, it's in a more spread out way--Xbox Gold increase in the first quarter (followed by) as opposed to the consolidated fuck ups of the all in one TV and Gaming platform Xbox One.
I was feeling pretty good about XBox up until Satya Nadel started commenting on gaming. Which is ironic because so many Xbox fans saw that as a good sign. But if you listened to what he said, all he cares about is the promise of game streaming and the money from subscription services. They are raking in dough with high profit margin Azure services and want to apply that to gaming.

What XBox is doing right now is fine to me, but it's all a house of cards IMO. I really am not bullish on game streaming, and at the very least think it's going to take a long time to really become some big thing. I have my doubts that Microsoft has the patience for that, and I think the actions of the last year (removing the one year Live cards, effectively raising the price, the recent price hike, etc.) leads me to believe that while they do have a bit of a blank check right now, the bean counters are also paying attention. We all know the MS board of directors was not happy with the lack of real profitability some years ago an wanted to ditch the brand.. if game streaming doesn't take off quickly, my bet is on those voices getting louder and they'll have every right to be loud.
 

N1tr0sOx1d3

Given another chance
Guys, stop having a tantrum and provide me with sales data that PS5 games are selling great anywhere, i will wait.
I’m not hating on you, but seriously, after the sales monster that is PS4, how do you come to the conclusion that PS5 won’t be anywhere near as successful?
 

Maxwell Jacob Friedman

leads to fear. Fear leads to xbox.
A console selling because of FOMO and scalpers will never sell more than a popular console with a lot of high quality exclusive games like Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Animal crossing and many others. what game you can only play on PS5? Demon souls Demake?! lmao
If by your logic and we talking about the last zelda, that wasnt exclusive because it came out on the wiiu and all the newer mario games coming out are from the older consoles as well.
 

Thirty7ven

Banned
Xbox gamers not buying new games because their gamepass backlogs? Either that or xbox is fading big time in the UK. If it's 75/25 it will be 90/10 for the rest of Europe. Asia could be even higher. Crazy times.

It’s as if the history of a brand and its recent success mean something. It’s crazy I know, someway somehow the launch of the new gen wasn’t a blank reset like many hoped.
 

killatopak

Gold Member
Not only do scalpers buy multiple consoles but they also buy multiple copies of the game per console.

Awesome logic!
 

zedinen

Member
PS5 will outsell everything with ease, even Switch.

Everything depends on Sony producing enough units to meet demand.
Yup.

PS5 is outselling XBS 2 to 1 worldwide. The gap in the US+UK is bigger than expected (600K) .

PS is expected to outsell X and N combined in FY 2020 , in dollar sales, as PSN and PS Studios gained popularity.

Sony is in a far better position now than it was at the start of the PS4 generation.
 
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Sidney Prescott

Unconfirmed Member
It deserves it. Aside from the server issues, the game looks like a fantastic conclusion to the trilogy. Loving what I'm seeing with the level designs. Will be a definite pick up for me in the future.
 

Vasili2K38

Member
So well deserved, the package is amazing (including the PSVR support) and the gameplay is so good. It was time IOI had a proper succesful launch with the modern Hitman games.
 

Mr Hyde

Member
That's not really true. Enchanted Arms was their first game to release on multiple consoles. Everything they made in the 12 years leading up to that only released on one platform.

Just because they only made games for one platform, doesn't mean they were not independent. They were launching games on all sorts of systems, to see what sticks. I consider that strategy very much a multiplat dev. But please, continue with your semantics.
 
Just because they only made games for one platform, doesn't mean they were not independent. They were launching games on all sorts of systems, to see what sticks. I consider that strategy very much a multiplat dev. But please, continue with your semantics.
What does independence have to do with it? A studio that only releases games for one system isn't a multiplat developer, even if they do so without being bound by any exclusivity contracts. If you're not developing and releasing on multiple platforms, you're not multiplat, and From Software spent five years releasing nine PS1 games in a row before they decided to give the Dreamcast a try. To say they were a multiplatform developer during those first five years just because they could have potentially released something on other platforms is ridiculous.
 
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Bodomism

Banned
Crazy... Playstation taking 75% of sales is nuts, but PS5 taking 50% is even more bizzare.

The thirst is real.
United Kingdom - Week 3, 2021
Retail sales estimate

1. Hitman 3 - 13.800 <> 14.100
PS5 (49%): ~6.700 <> ~6.850
XBS+XBO (27%): ~3.700 <> ~3.800
PS4 (25%): ~3.400 <> ~3.500

2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 13.000 <> 13.300

Aanimal Crossing New Horizons is the real beast here Basically the best selling SKU in UK week 3.
 
So let me get this straight, Hitman 3 sold 7000 (seven thousand) copies on the PS5 and now SonyGAF is predicting that PS5 will outsell the Switch?

ricky gervais laughing GIF
 
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