I think 60 to 70 million lifetime sales is the most we can expect but that's a good increase from Xbox One.
Xbox Game Studios & Bethesda Softworks | OTXXIII | 2̶5̶ 27 Years In The Making
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Vampire Survivors is what I imagine crack is like. I kind of blame Phil for talking it about it so much...
Yeah maybe it's me, I do have a PS5, but I'm kinda of tired of the same Third Person Over the Shoulder Cam Narrative Drive Game from Sony, so, looking the landscape, I can't be excited for any of the Sony 1st party games, but I agree that those appeal to a wide range of fans. (Not a fan of heroes game too, talking about Spider Man and Wolverine, those too are pretty popular).
However, it's kinda a bum that FFXVI is an exclusive game (maybe a permanent one), this game was the reason that I fetched one PS5.
I am interested to see if they can grow the market or merely move users between the two console ecosystems. Failure to grow means it becomes a zero sum game between Sony and MSFT, with Nintendo doing its own thing.
everytime someone mentions it, it gets delayed a week (not the game, just the D_D) keep mentioning it, and game will release before the starfield show
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Previous direct announcement was made on a Wednesday, two weeks before the event. I imagine it could be the same arrangement for Starfield.
announcement on a wednesday for the show on thursday this week would be BEST
like waaaay better considering the months of doom posting.
Kinda the same for me. Much of Sony's first party games don't interest me. My PS5 is for jrpgs that don't come to the Switch or Xbox, and their third party moneyhats. I do enjoy their unique first party games like Returnal.
I'm guessing that by the end of 2023, it will be something like 25M XBS sold through and 45M PS5s sold through. The ratio of XBS to PS5 is approx 61.66% and they are being outsold often like 2.5:1 so I expect that split to go down to like 55%. Unless Microsoft can start really pumping out XSXs but even then I don't think it'll stop it from being 2:1 on average.
According to Tom Henderson Sony is predicting 68 million consoles sold by the end of March 2024, so probably it'll probably roughly be 60 millionish by the end of the year. They are anticipating their biggest year yet in terms of console sales.
I read from someone that they have never sold more than 20M units in a year other than one for the PS2 generation, so that seems... excessive? Unless it was quarter.
Daniel Ahmad confirmed it was "over 50 million" in late 2019, and then they sold every unit they shipped in 2020 during COVID before next gen launch. Mid 50s seems like the floor.
But then I think there were some other numbers in some of the ABK stuff that made it seem lower, not entirely sure what's accurate.
They did it once during PS4. They hovered around the 18 to 20 million for a few years there.
It is excessive for sure, but for whatever reason Sony believes they can do it :P They even increased their forecast for next quarter. They are extremely confident to be able to smash them out at a record pace. Who knows why, they either have some really big games in the works or maybe a price drop, something like that.
I feel like once this gen really starts getting kicked into gear (ie casual games skipping last gen) we'll start to see a lot more momentum towards the Xbox brand, especially if the ABK deal closes.
When COD goes next gen only (which isn't happening this year) I think that's really when we'll start to see movement towards the S, especially if the deal closes and Xbox can fully market and bundle COD
When COD goes next gen only (which isn't happening this year) I think that's really when we'll start to see movement towards the S, especially if the deal closes and Xbox can fully market and bundle COD
I think Starfield alone is going to move an insane amount of consoles. But yea I think once all the big games start finally getting released Xbox sales are going to pick up drastically.
View: https://twitter.com/IOInteractive/status/1630583728517832706
wondering if this is still an xbox thing
pentiment truly is a system sellerXbox estimatedly sells 300k more units globally across the span of an entire year for a single year
"this is why they don't need activision"
Yoshi-P says FFXVI is 6 months exclusive to PS5, but even with that the PC version won't be out after 6 months because they won't have time to port it/optimize it for PC in 6 months. So, say it's a year release to get it out on PC... well... if it takes that much effort to get it out on PC, who knows how much longer it would take to come to XSX/S if ever lols
Game Pass expanding is good to see. Hopefully they continue to work on their localization efforts.
6 months PS5 exclusive
Add another 6 months for repackaged PS5 edition with some goodies
Then 6 months Epic Store Exclusive
Just forget it. Square Enix is a lost cause on Xbox.
Shame to hear about the studio shutting down/getting absorbed, even after the poor performance of Forspoken, hope all the devs land ok.
A port can be done be any team really, so if they want to do it, it can be done.
That reminds me, Kingdom Hearts 3 has been exclusive to EGS for almost 2 years now (coming up on March 30). WACK
Now Square's Western studios are out from under them, Sony can have Square as far as I'm concerned.
interesting...., end of year figures will be interesting also(if they get their stock sorted), consoles are def one of their objectives along with MAU and GP, look forward to seeing all those figures come end of year.
Could be. Might be a way to attract developers without yet another cgi announcement trailer of a game that's years off. Xbox has maybe had a few too many of those pile up at this point.
yeah that's my line of thinking of it's still exclusive rn. way too many games without gameplay, so they handed off the job to IOI.
lot of xbox publishing peeps interact with IO stuff on social networks so i guess there is a chance it's still happening?
grubb mentioned the game in passing in one of the latest giantbombcasts when talking about hitman freelancer work and he said if was an xbox game still.
because they still need to recruit a lot of people for the game (and hitman is slowing down with support after freelancer)
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