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I was replying to stripper 13, what's with your snarky dismissivness?
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UK Charts: Days Gone defeats Mortal Kombat 11 to claim No.1 (Update: Eurogamer: Biggest UK physical launch so far in 2019)
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I was replying to stripper 13, what's with your snarky dismissivness?
Yeah this was something they said around the game informers preview. They only got more people late in the developement.
Will be interesting to see how they will do a sequel from the start with the developers they got now. Game is already impressive enough at the moment so just imagine the sequel.
Here the source.
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/296719/Days_Gone_has_driven_Sony_Bend_to_more_than_double_in_size.php
Some from Summer 2016 till April 2017 they went from 45 to 103.
More than 135 people worked on Days Gone.
In 2019, 135 people are not enough to make an open world, outsourcing is a key element and a lot of people seem to forget about that.
Don't the platform holders make $40 per physical copy & the full $60 for digital. I mean I think 2 million copies will break even depending on marketing budget. If something like horizon had a budget of $47 million then I can't see this game with a much smaller team being bigger than that.
Its a strange point to make that applies to almost every game.
Yeah... nope. They didn't have that many people for all those years, also, Sony's exclusives games are known to be less costly than most AAA in the industry. I would be surprised if they invested more than $70 millions in the production of DG.
This is actually hilarious.
Why even bother spouting bullshit like "they need to sell 3-4 million to break even" when you don't know shit and are just making a whole bunch of assumptions?
Just stop dude, you have no idea how much Sony spent making and promoting this game, no one does besides them.
That's only development budget, does not include marketing.
I don't think that's true at all.
A game like God of War or Uncharted does not cost less than the average AAA game at all.
ND production value is not cheap at all.
God of War 3 for example costed 44 million USD in 2010
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Someone obviously already had a "Failure, Bend will be closed now" faux concern post already written out in case it didn't top the chart but still wanted to use some of it.
Thanks for this, I wish the days gone wiki would of included this.
Based on this days gone main dev costs would of been roughly $25million.
So the break even figure will be more like 1-2million, days gone should easily do this 😎
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wow, i really underestimated it. good for them
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more like Budget Gone, am i right guys? huehuehue
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more like Budget Gone, am i right guys? huehuehue
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If the game is a success then I believe Bend will be able to upgrade their headquarters to have a full mocap studio. No traveling 800+ miles to SSM to use their facilities.
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This isn't correct. Publisher makes roughly $35 per game sold. Closer to $45 if sold digitally according to an old kotaku article. Rounding out at 39 million per million copies sold. We discussed this in the PS OT.
Wait so they had to travel to make the animations? That explains a lot.
Animations in the game were a bit meh in many places. The developers said somewhere that there was 4 or so people (I could be remembering the number wrong) so it makes sense if that's the case.
not all copies will be sold at full RRP.
But it does not matter anyway I've updated my break even estimate in a later post.
Isn't that calculation wrong in this situation as it doesn't take into account platform royalty free that Sony doesn't have to pay? Referring specifically to digital.
Happy for Bend. According to the Blogcast, they're at 140 people now. Looking good heading into PS5.
Yeah they didn't have they didn't have the space, equipment or personnel to do that stuff in house so they apparently had to travel down to SSM for their mocap recording sessions.
They ran a lot of cool ads for it up to launch and its an easy concept for the general public to buy into
5 mio can easily be done. A huge success for Bend Studio. And I can't wait to see Days Gone on a next gen PS5.
Indeed, that's what the journalist says in this video (it's in french though- 4min 50). He basically says that Bend will have their own mocap studio if the game does well.
http://www.jeuxvideo.com/videos/rep...premieres-motos-jusqu-a-la-motion-capture.htm
Well, I think despite the reviews this game really appeals to the general public. I've heard friends who are not into video games talking about it.
In fact, I've seen a big push for it on retail stores here in Brazil, which is really surprising. Sony is treating this as any other AAA exclusive.
In fact, I've seen a big push for it on retail stores here in Brazil, which is really surprising. Sony is treating this as any other AAA exclusive.
Size of teams, outsourcing, dev pipeline, marketing etc. Pretty much every aspect of the process
Always happy to see a single player game succeed. My mp activities has been dwindled to zero… just can't bring the energy to compete against others.
Like to walk my own path and pace.
Game looks like fun, will buy down the road (hah!).
Is there any info on dlc or something that you'll be able to get another bike? Riding a sports bike myself, so…
Like to walk my own path and pace.
Game looks like fun, will buy down the road (hah!).
Is there any info on dlc or something that you'll be able to get another bike? Riding a sports bike myself, so…
OP is misleading. It doesn't specify that Days Gone only beat MK11's PS4 sales, not overall sales.
There was some DLC they announced by a mistake but we don't know what it is. As for the bike, your bike is the only bike you get although you can use enemy bikes temporarily. You bike's look can be customized to look very different although I don't think there is a sport bike look.
You are mixing US and UK I think.
UK = Days Gone is the best launch so far in 2019, easily beating MK11 (PS4+Xbox One combined)
US = Benji said Days Gone day one sales are on par with the PS4 version of MK11.
And if you ask me, US is the only part of the world where Days Gone won't sell better than MK11, which is an extremely US-centric IP.
Yep, it's getting the same treatment GOW got here in Brazil. In fact I feel like it's getting even more of a push from Brazilian youtubers, most of them are loving the game and the videos from the most famous ones are already reaching 1 million views which is pretty crazy after less than a week. Sony really built the hype for this game well.
congrats to bend studio...i hope it succeeds for them. i'd hate for sony to not give them a second chance to improve and really come back with a better product. In the current industry, its super cutthroat and no mistakes and growth periods are allowed a lot of the time. Ready at Dawn and Evolution Studios know this acutely
TLOU2 will be a gigantic behemoth :O
Bend Studio is eating right now. And that's good to see. Especially because compared to Ready at Dawn's and Evo's last Sony games, Days Gone is a huge hit ;)
Game is pretty solid like many people said, I'm half way done and I'm enjoying the trip.. ain't no god of war or TLOU but it's an okay game with a great story development mid way even thou the intro of the game was horrible and off putting
Thats pretty darned impressive, especially for beating a high profile game like MK11.
Considering that the writing was done in house, I think the IP has a lot of potential. They might be able to hire talent to improve on areas people thought were lacking. It's not an epic story line by any means but that doesn't detract from the experience in my humble opinion.
You need to look at the receipts.
The same people who claimed the game was trash and or wouldn't sell are all over era in their new role as Sony's chief financial officer. I wont be engaging in that aspect of conversation with those who have morphed their "concerns" into "budgetary concerns."
No offense but is MK even that big in europe? Always seemed kinda US focused.
Outside of the US the UK has always been a hotbed of FGC. The last evo champ is British and MK has always been big here. The reason why Days Gone outsold MK is beyond the scope of this thread so in short, explainable by Sony's dominance in the FGC scene here in the UK.
I am happy for bend. Transitioning to console development with a small team and multiple stop/starts must have been painful. Hope they use the experience to fix some of the shortcoming of the first one and make a sequel that knocks it out f the park and maybe even add coop multiplayer stuff.
That shouldn't matter because days gone beat out everything that came out this year in terms of launch sales in the UK.
That shouldn't matter because days gone beat out everything that came out this year in terms of launch sales in the UK.
I think this game will continue to sell based on word of mouth.
It has jumped two spots on amazon best seller archive since release.
It has jumped two spots on amazon best seller archive since release.
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