Stellar Blade has sold more physical copies than Dragon's Dogma 2 in Japan, despite PS5 exclusivity

By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.

[Hugodastrevas]

Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!

[BrettAwesome]

More than it got? It got tons, by everyone except the sad wankers who's idea of a sex life, is pulling on their dicks while watching big fake cgi titties 😂

[gerbintosh]

Don't see the difference between cgi titties and fake boobs. Also no difference to wanking it to either one of them since both aren't physically there

[RiseNShine]

Salty that the game is doing well hm? ;) I suggest some cheese with your whine.

[Skuletor]

So you're saying the people that like watching CGI tits didn't praise the game? An educated guess is you meant the opposite.

[BrettAwesome]

@Risenwhine
What the fuck are you talking about? I think it looks like an awesome game. I don't get the sentiment that it didn't get as much praise as it deserved. The only ones who's been shit talking it, are sad wankers with no sex life. Am I whining? How? 😂

[Cacabunga]

I think we can safely claim that Stellar Blade 2 is confirmed!
I got it day one, i have some backlog due to RDR2 i just platinumed.. i will get to Stellar Blade in the near future

[shinoff2183]

Same but I'm hitting yakuza right now. Stellar blade looks cool though.

[neutralgamer1992]

Capcom really dropped the ball with DG2. They had easy success on their hand but instead with their stupid decisions ruined the games success

Stellar blade is an amazing game and deserves all the success. For all the artificial hate it got from people who had no interest in the game to begin with this shows if you make a good game it will sell. The so called 1st party drought from PlayStation has meant 4 exclusives in 2024 so far. Other companies need to learn how to run a business and plan for the future

[H9]

Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one

[Redemption-64]

DS2 sold 2.5M in a little over a week, what the hell are you talking about?

[H9]

"there", that's Japan, this article is about Japan, the bad word of mouth is about Japan

[Hereandthere]

Exclusives matter. No matter what bumbling phil and bond try to say, exclusives is why you buy a console.

[The_Hooligan]

How dare you speak common sense!!??

[YourMommySpoils]

Cause Hellblade 2 really matters?

[jznrpg]

It would if they added a lot more combat and didn’t focus on graphics

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Stellar blade is great excited for 2

[anast]

They dropped the ball with dogma. SB is a solid game, it just had to weather the social storm.

[shinoff2183]

Said that dd2 was missing things the first one did,like mass effect 2? I haven't played it so I'm really asking.

[spss11]

I've played both and I have no idea what people say when they claim it's "incomplete". I've only noticed new things in comparison to DD1 (I would give a list but spoilers). Sometimes I wonder if some people actually played DD1 or maybe they remember it differently. Anyways, if you liked the first one and want more of that, you'll probably like DD2.

[anast]

Yeah, the content, combat movement is slower, less vocations, the armor system, it's more simplified, and dungeons are lacking. It's like they rushed it out or something, but didn't forget to add in youtuber pawns and micros. At least ME 2 upped the content.

[Eonjay]

Even if every game was multiplat it would still effectively be exclusive in Japan. Still Stellar Blade topping DD2 on PS5 is a heck of an achievement for a new IP.

[Huey_My_D_Long]

Good for Stellar Blade Devs, although no surprise it would do well.

[Demetrius]

I think it sold cause of Eve also tho, if it were a guy mfs wouldn't bat an eye

[Barlos]

That's what I think. Without Eve it would be just a pretty average game. I didn't find it very impressive, or even much fun.

[Luc20]

Seen adds often on the Tokyo subway. It was nice to see that Sony is promoting the game.

[ZeekQuattro]

Not a shocker. The Series consoles combined sell around 3k a week there and it's overall small install base isn't helping either. Series S/X lifetime sales in Japan haven't even cracked 1 million yet. Coupled with poor word of mouth for DD2 in Japan and this should of been expected.

[Barlos]

Sex sells, because the game itself really isn't that great.

Good to see it doing well though, whatever the reason. I'm not keen on the game myself but it's always good to see a new IP seeing success.

[HyperMoused]

AH japan loves the sexy AKA Hentai etc, negative birth rate...

[DafunkyRebel]

It really helps that Shift Up isn't runned by corporate shills. The people there have passion and actually take their time to make a great product. I remember seeing this game being announce maybe 5 yrs ago so for them to be allowed this much time to bring the game out without needing a major patch to fix bugs and serious glitches is amazing. Game studios nowadays are no longer allowed such development times by the publishers in favor of short 2yr crunch periods to make investors happy.

[gigoran8]

When it only has once rival company in Japan it makes the accomplishment a lot easier. All the other countries have to compete with Microsoft in addition to Nintendo.

[Skuletor]

You do know they sell Xbox consoles in Japan, right?

[Rikimaru-00]

I have DD 2 and I got bored of this game. I should give SB a try.

[TheLigX]

Makes sense since Microsoft only sells around 10 Xboxes per year in Japan.

[Skuletor]

I wonder how many get returned out of those.

[jznrpg]

I just started the game a few days ago and the game is really good. Combat is tight, there are a lot of combos even when you first start out and you can go different routes with the skill trees and o haven’t unlocked all of them yet.
. I like the verticality of the game with little hidden spots all over. For a first entry this game is much better than I expected it to be. Sure eye candy is nice but the actual game itself is where it’s at