Atomic Heart is a good game everyone should experience that game for its beautiful design. I do believe that they could have structured the story in a different way. This game could have been told solely through in-game lore rather than cutscene and the player would have to piece everything together.
Also, Atomic Heart, as well as A plague tale Requiem, have both been deemed successful. So the day one game pass release did not so-called "cannibalise" sales instead they had millions of people playing those games.
Not to be rude but this isn't an exclusive. We don't know the sales figure per system so u can't really say gamepass did anything for it. Sales could have been higher perhaps? We don't know so to say gamepass helped or didn't help is kinda of an assumption. All we can safely say is more people probably played it due to gamepass that wouldn't have otherwise bought it, but that dosnt mean it didn't hurt sales. Either way though congrats to them and hopefully we get a sequel from them since it sold above expectations
"All we can safely say is more people probably played it due to gamepass that wouldn't have otherwise bought it, but that dosnt mean it didn't hurt sales."
Yeah, there you go. more people played it because of gamepass. For every player that plays the game which was most likely in the millions the studios were paid in revenue share. There is a certain amount that the studio would get paid if they reach a certain threshold. Hi-Fi Rush, Atomic Heart and a plague tale reached those thresholds. The money that those studios would not have made in sales from Xbox they made through the revenue share from gamepass.
The more of those games that players play on gamepass the more of an audience they are gathering. I am not a big fan of Asobo Studios because of the spectacular A Plague Tale Requiem. This is why relating more variety of games like Japanese games will be beneficial to create a Japanese game audience.
Nop. Both are niche games and gp cannabalise sales. Hi-fi rush is another example. There no spin there all metrics from Microsoft are lower this year from last year. No spin possible
Source? I know it sold well on steam with 200k on its first week. But curious to know where you got your data from.
In the meantime, the game reached 5 Millions players and since it was a game that was popular amounts PC fans and it was available on gamepass. We can easily come to the conclusion that the 5 Million players were mostly on Gamepass.
Now you wondering how that's relevant since it does not equate to sales. Since the game was made available for game pass subscribers a service where players who pay for the service to access the game, Xbox pays a revenue share to the developers for reaching players reach milestones.
Atomic Heart, as well as A plague tale Requiem are on PlayStation, im sure its the sole reason both games made a profit, if them 2 were only xbox, we would be reading how both games massively undersold and most likely killed both franchises. Im not even trolling, there's many articles about xbox exclusives from 3rd parties launching on gamepass and selling horribly.
They sure didn't help game sales. Those sales probably can be attributed to ps and pc. If anything the developers of atomic heart probably undercut themselves by giving it away on gamepass. All boils down to what ms gave them, studios first game unproven developer ,yea undercut. Just don't think gamepass helps as much I at all like some believe.
But I thought Gamepass Kill sales? Yall have to come up with a new narrative. Im happy to the developers and publisher for the success of their new ip.
It's a very solid game. Good!
Nice
loved this game so much
Atomic Heart is a good game everyone should experience that game for its beautiful design.
I do believe that they could have structured the story in a different way. This game could have been told solely through in-game lore rather than cutscene and the player would have to piece everything together.
Also, Atomic Heart, as well as A plague tale Requiem, have both been deemed successful. So the day one game pass release did not so-called "cannibalise" sales instead they had millions of people playing those games.
But I thought Gamepass Kill sales? Yall have to come up with a new narrative. Im happy to the developers and publisher for the success of their new ip.