Stellar Blade Is The Best Selling Game Pre-Order On PlayStation Store & Amazon

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Shift Up's upcoming action adventure title, Stellar Blade, is the best selling game pre-order on PlayStation Store and Amazon.

[gold_drake]

oh wow, is it ?

very nice

[Tacoboto]

The importance of demos especially for single-player new IPs!

I went from get-it-if-reception-is-good-an d-on-sale, to preordering it as soon as I beat the boss challenge. Reading about the studio head buying all his staff PS5s after was the icing on the cake - stellar gameplay, a complete package, *and* a rewarding studio culture at the helm. Can't wait for it to release.

[Cacabunga]

The game is highly overpriced on the store..

[TheProfessional]

Now maybe people can lighten up about women in games. Clearly there is a market for this and if people don't like it then they shouldn't buy it but it doesn't mean it can't exist.

This is a win against the sjw garbage where having a video game woman in a bikini was a huge problem. There's more people who will buy this then who won't.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Very nice

[CrimsonWing69]

I did my part.

[ravens52]

I don't really think these metrics mean anything. Just like everyone is like ooooh Sea of Thieves, Sea of Thieves at the top. There are a lot of people who plan on getting the game but don't pre-order. This is a day 1 for me, but I don't pre-order.

[CrimsonWing69]

If you’re getting it Day 1, why don’t you pre-order? You’ll miss out on pre-order DLC. I mean, what changes between the time of pre-order to the Day 1 launch? Help me out with this one.

[ravens52]

Most of the time it's cosmetics, that really doesn't entice me.

[InUrFoxHole]

Just out of curiosity. Why do you not pre-order if you're going to buy day 1? This gen has made me pre order less games.

[ravens52]

People were talking about how Suicide Squad was at the top of the PSN pre-order list... Take from that what you will.

[Auron]

This definately isnt the results Kotaku wanted lol.

[Tacoboto]

... Except that Kotaku's preview for the game (based on the demo) is glowing with praise, as has been their general tone of coverage for it, too.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Or the majority of the gaming news media, you can see a lot of them have started back peddling, even Kotaku is back peddling now that they see they're the minority.

[Fonsecap]

Weren't gamers angry because of the sexualised protagonist? I thought the game wouldn't sale at all... Gaming journalists were saying that gamers don't identify with those kind of characters, I don't get it... Are gaming journalists wrong? 🫣

[MrDead]

Conservative right wingers and their evangelical followers will be upset, I never understood the US right wing and them freaking out over the human body but happy with extreme violence.

[qalpha]

Nice try but this isn't the 1980s. The puritans today are the far left journalists who hate the female form https://archive.ph/Et13r

[RiseNShine]

There's been a movie called Barbie recently, i think you should give it a look and check what radical left feminists think of oppresing female stereotypes aka attractive women.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

You shouldn't be listening to them in the first place, their opinion is the minority, a lot of them don't play games or hate the community in general. Some can't even play games (look at IGN with Doom 2016 and Cuphead gameplay), or they make stupid comments like "too much water" in a Pokemon game.

[Fonsecap]

My comment maybe was misinterpreted, I was trying to be sarcastic and failed miserably. LOL, I already downloaded the demo and it's awesome, don't understand the comparison with automata though (I played through automata twice), I guess it has more in common with soulslike games with more maneuverability. About the character I don't know why some people get mad about it, when the protagonist is a man almost shirtless nobody says a thing, but if it is a woman, man it seems the world is about to end. Players love attractive characters, I always give this exemple, go take a look at the nexus mods and see for yourselves that a good chunk of the mods there, for games like Skyrim, fallout and CP2077 is to make female characters attractive

[DivineHand125]

Good

[YourMommySpoils]

As it should be. Great news. Doesn't seem Stellar Blade has any rivals this month also, so they picked a great time for releasing.

[VersusDMC]

Glad Sony got it's shit together and spaced it's exclusive releases. I was dumbfounded when Guilty Gear Strive, FF7RIntergrade and Ratchet came out on the same day.

Now i have rebirth to still enjoy getting to 100%, FFXVI DLC on the 18 then Stellar Blade on the 26th.

[YourMommySpoils]

The first half of the year has been amazing.

[Demetrius]

This and rise of the ronin I will be getting soon 😌 glad to see these games turned out to be worth it

[Ra3030]

I think Sony will be fine if they sell around 18 to 20million PS5's this year. Can you imagine though if you were a console manufacturer and struggled so badly to sell a console that you can't announce your projected sales a year in advance and then when your forced to announce what you did sell it turns out to be less than the last generations console....that would be embarrassing.... Amirite!

[anast]

Prob. get Rise of the Ronin and this soon. The other games I was hyped about did come through.

[Gameseeker_Frampt]

Looking at the current list of games available for preorder, this really isn't that impressive. Just 3 places behind Stellar Blade preorders in Destiny 2: The Final Shape - which preorder numbers were down 75% resulting in almost 10% of Bungie staff being fired.

[nzjono]

Sweet Baby Inc Defeated!

[RiseNShine]

oh my sweet baby, what's happening here?

[Wretchedstain]

Demo's aside. Boobahs sold it.