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ChuckeRearmed
Member
Expected drop with that price. If it were 60 it would be probably fare better - maybe would be still in top 10 at least.
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nightmare-slain
Member
not surprising.
The Hamburglar
Banned
Some people are obsessed with this game failing. I’ve never seen so many concern threads for one game.
prinz_valium
Member
84% drop.
A little more than usual.
A little more than usual.
wOs
Member
even at 60 I don't think it would have changed much. I am enjoying it, but this is totally a niche title at best.
DeceptiveAlarm
Gold Member
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Papacheeks
Banned
Well when there's no stock of Physical to buy this happens. No one is talking about the nation wide absence of physical. Like everyone I know who Preordered got their game last week instead of on release. No retailer in my town or in the next town which is Syracuse or Rochester, or Buffalo had any.
SO to me there was a error or Sony undershipped based on preorders?
Papacheeks
Banned
You have no clue wtf your talking about. Game's budget was in the Millions. But made by a small studio, sound design is going to get some awards for sure. Game is brilliant. Never played a game to addictively in a long time.
It is Niche in the style of game it is. But saying this is not a AAA game in it's presentation or content is really reaching. Shows how little you know about game asset creation.
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Haggard
Banned
Blablabla the studio has 80 employees and worked on the game for <3 years.
A studio like Santa Monica has 200-250 and worked on GoW for 5....
The budgets are incomparable.
It´s not an Indi game, but it`s far from AAA.....
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Papacheeks
Banned
Days gone was made with mostly 80 people until end ramp up where they expanded to 120-130.
Batman Arkham asylum was made by 80 people back in 2009.
Studio size can be small, and still have a moderate budget. This game cost 40-60 Million to make if not more if you add in all the promotional material and any third party company that did any of the mixing/cutscenes.
Bruno_Arrais85
Member
couldn't care less about sales. The game is amazing and i highly recommend it.
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Haggard
Banned
By todays (budget)-standards Returnal is not AAA but still costs more than 95% of all actual AAAs on the market.
That´s a simple fact....
One might call that crazy, but that`s the state of the industry, where some games cost more to make than most hollywood movies.
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Papacheeks
Banned
Not every game will be 100 Million in budget. RATCHET was made with really very little to no mo-cap is all hand animated. And was made in like 3-4 years. While making another title at the same time. #Employee's does not always = games budget.
That can go else where. Returnal though not as expensive to make as others, still is in the AAA budget because there is some mo-cap, actress scans, voice over work. Also this game from my understanding has been in the works longer than 3 years.
It is up to Sony and the developer on what they feel they want to price the game at. Do I think this should have been $60? Yes.
Do I think this is possibly a GOTY contender? 100% yes.
There's people that have 30-40 hours into this game. There's a lot of content to keep playing after the first time you see credits. The story doesn't stop there. Has a ton of replayability.
vaibhavpisal
Member
High price will hurt game sales.
Especially if not an established ip.
No way to get around that.
Especially if not an established ip.
No way to get around that.
Umbasaborne
Banned
Im not suprised, but this is what we want from sony right? More out of the box experimental games with big budgets?
Rolla
Banned
Context
Australia
Debuted at #1 in Germany etc etc. In short, Playstation is a global brand and Returnal will hit a million sold in due course. I'm not an analyst by any measure but using one region in Europe to suggest the game has failed. After a week on the market... While side stepping the sales data from a number of regions seems a little premature at best.
Australia
Debuted at #1 in Germany etc etc. In short, Playstation is a global brand and Returnal will hit a million sold in due course. I'm not an analyst by any measure but using one region in Europe to suggest the game has failed. After a week on the market... While side stepping the sales data from a number of regions seems a little premature at best.
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Context
Australia
Debuted at #1 in Germany etc etc. In short, Playstation is a global brand and Returnal will hit a million sold in due course. I'm not an analyst by any measure but using one region in Europe to suggest the game has failed. After a week on the market... While side stepping the sales data from a number of regions seems a little premature at best.
Pokemon Snap is the number 1 in Germany not Returnal.
Silent Viper
Banned
Niche Roguelike not big sellers. They are made for very specific audience
Looks like bomba. How are you feeling inside today? Sad?
Papacheeks
Banned
And how big is Pokemon as a brand and established IP?
For returnal to be #2, let alone in top 5-10 is a good sign.
Iced Arcade
Member
Do people even buy boxed games anymore
SLB1904
Banned
Housemarque is 80 people but more than 80 people worked on returnal.
Your concern in returnal thread are hilarious
SLB1904
Banned
Lol bomba. Shit charted in every chart possible at 70 quid. Nice try troll.
Bomba is resident evil 8 on xbox
Haggard
Banned
ethomaz
Banned
Wut? It is the opposite lol
Mercenary09
Member
Returnal was very hard to come by at retail. Even here in the US it was sold out most places last week. Best Buy just recently got more available.
Context is really important here.
-Spin off Pokemon game isn't the same tier as mainline Pokemon game in sales.
-UK is the weakest market for Nintendo amongst top 6 gaming markets and yet Snap outsold it 3 to 1 in a launch week. It would be much bigger in other countries like US, Japan, France, and Germany.
-Leg is also an important metric to measure the sales as you can see Snap only down 63% after a huge launch while Returnal down 84% indicating words of mouth isn't good as Snap.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Returnal is killing it on the digital store at #3: https://blog.playstation.com/2021/05/10/playstation-store-april-2021-top-downloads/
SLB1904
Banned
What are you talking about?
UK isnt the weakest market for Nintendo at all it never was. Other than the wii u disaster
And how many people bought snap thinking that's actually a real game?
Bomba
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Derift
Member
theres alot more nintendo switches in the wild.... and pokemon side games will always sell well.... i think your underestimating how big the pokemon community is
wOs
Member
looks like FIFA on the PS4 in the uk at release was 59.99 (pounds).
ZywyPL
Banned
So as expected, digital distribution taking over the market.