Klayzer
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Eating good? Hell its been a buffet this year.
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Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
It's not about fud man. But whartever im not in the mood to argue.
Spitfire098
Member
(When) If this games bomb in the sales charts, what is that like 2 in a row, with Forza motorsport being the other.
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Fbh
Member
Just happens to be publishing?
You make it sound like these studios just walked up to Sony with completed games and asked them to print them on discs or something. Publishing often involves a significant financial investment, Sony paid for a significant part or the complete development cost of these games. There are interviews from Shift Up where they talked about how Stellar Blade used to be a much smaller game before Sony approached them and offered a significant investment in the projects.
Helldivers 2 in particular is a full Sony IP, just because they don't own the studio that they contracted to develop it doesn't mean that it "doesn't count". That's like saying Smash Ultimate isn't a real Switch exclusive because Nintendo doesn't own Bandai Namco.
The only fake Ps5 exclusive this year is Rebirth. Because that's indeed a game that would have been made anyway and Sony just paid Square to not put it on other platforms for a while.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
why are people talking about Sony published games in a thread about HB2 marketing?
midnightAI
Member
No OT? or too early
(sorry, said review thread, I meant OT)
(sorry, said review thread, I meant OT)
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Klayzer
Member
Sonytoo is like the T-virus around here. It just creeps up on you like Nemesis.
HeWhoWalks
Gold Member
Oh, you know. Xbox is having one of the roughest weeks ever! Let's pivot to PlayStation™.
In reality, most people with functioning brains couldn't give two shits if Helldivers II was made by Naughty Dog or Arrowhead. They're buying/playing the game among others (Rebirth/Ronin/Stellar).
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Looks like she's just coming up from some banging ecstasy pills.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
nial
Gold Member
Had it been released in 2021 without all that hype by MS and their community, this wouldn't have been all that bad.Strong performance on Steam:
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Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Because the number of Sony published games this year is bigger than their marketing budget
Astray
Member
Lamplighters League was supposedly disappointing in terms of sales, and Paradox had layoffs at the studio shortly after release.
Paradox says The Lamplighters League sales were 'a big disappointment,' confirms recent layoffs at developer Harebrained Schemes
The layoffs at Harebrained Schemes actually occurred a few months before The Lamplighters League was released.
I think we need to pour one out for Ninja Theory..
Mr Hyde
Gold Member
MayauMiao
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anothertech
Member
I love ninja theory. They create some badass games.
I hate that their latest entry is relegated to gamepass bullshitery. Fully expect a PS5 release announcement in the next few months.
I hate that their latest entry is relegated to gamepass bullshitery. Fully expect a PS5 release announcement in the next few months.
Daneel Elijah
Gold Member
Sony probably helped them a lot. If you are looking at Rebirth only I could somewhat agree with you. But if we look at the whole FF7 remake history I have to point out that Sony helped them with a very strong commitment for a 10 year trilogy plan that Square Enix maybe was not willing to make alone. And we still have another game to wait for.
What more would you want for it to be considered not a fake exclusive?
nial
Gold Member
Words, words and words, only for you to be entirely wrong. You have no idea of what constitutes as a first-party game for Sony; Arrowhead, Koei Tecmo and Shift Up aren't the ones marketing those games, because it's not their job, but rather the business of Sony's first-party marketing departments.
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djjinx2
Member
Sad but true, being Xbox only and in UK which has always had a big following, marketing is none existent for anything Xbox for such a long time. It's like they don't care anymore.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Maddoxswe
Member
Massive and still growing
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
This probably more accurate than you think.
If the game really is as short as everyone is saying it is, they're not going to have that much material to work with for promotion. If it's already got a reputation for being tiny, then putting out advertising that reinforces that would be a disaster.
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DavidGzz
Member
Who? Insiders or PS fanboys? I haven't seen anything from the former.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
What? It was reported in all the trades that it was 'about 8 hours'.
djjinx2
Member
Perfect. 8 hours is about right. Uncharted series are some of my favourite games with similar play times. My time is very limited with gaming so don't want 100 hour games
DavidGzz
Member
Never heard of 'all the trades'. I've only seen someone who likes Forspoken(lol) say that it was 5 hours.
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
Depends. The gameplay and story have to be very compelling for 8 hours to be adequate. Having played the first game, I'm not entirely sure it's going to have enough depth or variety to impress at such a short length, given the expectations heaped upon it.
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Sneakysnake
Banned
Oh
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Literally Google 'hellblade 2 length'.
King Dazzar
Member
How long does anyone want to spend in the mind of a mentally ill psychotic bitch from hell? I'd have thought 5 minutes would be too long, let alone 8 hrs. I could have some empathy for her, but would I want to actually be her? Hell no.
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ManaByte
Gold Member
Which is the exact length of the first game.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Yes. An AA game that had very little expectations placed upon it, that was released on all platforms (timed Playstation exclusive), and was an average success.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
The first game just about got the balance right. There was a bit too much internal dialogue at some points, but not to the extent that is spoiled the game experience.
King Dazzar
Member
Unfortunately I hated it. I persevered multiple times too, due to the hype and others love for it. But I found it to have obtuse puzzles, awful combat, but some nice (though overrated imo) graphics. I wasnt impressed.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
It was... fine. An AA version of God Of War, with less gameplay, more stilted combat, but a fairly interesting story that at least held my attention for the running time.
What it isn't is a game that has massive, mass market appeal.
Ninja Theory are fucking toast.
It's also going to get compared saleswise to the other big female protagonist game on the other console: Stellar Blade.
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Grildon Tundy
Member
If the reviews are decent, I'll resubscribe to Game Pass to play through Hellblade 2. That's like $10 directly attributable to HB2.
If the budget was $100M (it's probably more), then 10,000,000 other players doing the same alone would break even.
If selling for $40, then 2,500,000 copies sold alone would break even.
But I'm probably low on the budget, and it would be a mix of GP subscriptions and sales not just one or the other.
Yeah...it's not looking good.
If the budget was $100M (it's probably more), then 10,000,000 other players doing the same alone would break even.
If selling for $40, then 2,500,000 copies sold alone would break even.
But I'm probably low on the budget, and it would be a mix of GP subscriptions and sales not just one or the other.
Yeah...it's not looking good.
ManaByte
Gold Member
I'm playing through it right now (just past Sutr) and I really like the combat.
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