Budget price for big budget game.
While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been received very well, some haters are trying to drag it down by giving it 0's and 1's scores.
Already got so many turn based franchises converted to real time. Even got Baldur's Gate III.
"Even got Baldur's Gate III."
*I meant to say, we even got another turn based high rated game in the form of Baldur's Gate III that became GOTY ... but even after all that we see these activities.
Should've elaborated.
I didn't mean Bladur's became real-time. That effort goes to the Dragon Age franchise and others.
I don't like turn based combat but I am. Willing to try it. Some people just hate for no reason. I mean if I don't like a game I can ignore it why do I need to spread hate
Pokemon was the main reason I got to experience turn based (before FF n all).
I didn't even realize it was turn based until a friend of mine pointed it out, that I've been enjoying turn based all along.
@Armaggedon
Yep, pretty much
There the same crowd who cry woke, this is their job. Always finding something to critisize.
I saw a review that gave the game zero because they thought Sciel (a hot babe in the game) was DEI, as she had a, what they described as, square face. lol
Funny because these are probably the same people Square Enix try to please with new mainline FF games.
Honestly, I stopped playing the FF games when they went away from turn-based combat.. That was FF. They should have created a new series or spin offs that had the real time combat.
That's pathetic. I don't like turn-based games but I don't hate them. It just doesn't do anything for me. I can still acknowledge that this is. Looks like an amazing game. WTF is wrong with people? Lol
The UK's physical sales charts for last week are here, and it's more good news for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
The RPG has debuted at number two, only trumped by Hogwarts Legacy, which has been top for several weeks in a row.
Furthermore, 96 per cent of the copies sold were for PS5 — perhaps not as shocking a statistic when you remember the game launched on Game Pass on Xbox systems, but in the realm of physical sales, that's quite the gulf.
Geez.
I don't even know how to put it.
I mean, yeah, ok, that's just impressive.
While still remembering times when Xbox discs were on par or even sold more than Playstation's in the UK.
That stark difference between sales on the different platforms, 96% on PS5 and 4% on Xbox, is much larger than I think anyone was expecting. The only people buying it on Xbox are likely the ardent physical game collector enthusiasts.
It demonstrates that including premium games as day one freebies with subscription services kills off any demand from consumers to purchase them. If Microsoft had 100 million Game Pass subscribers this business model would be profitable for it - but it doesn't so every game that launches this way has lost out. In time industry experts will look back at Game Pass and pontificate on day one releases' effect on customer buying habits and the harm it did to the Xbox ecosystem.
I think 60 million is realistic in the next couple of years. I guess we will see how the "this is an xbox" initiative goes with cloud and smart TVs. That's the only way they will be able to further expand gamepass numbers. XCloud needs to get out of beta first. More servers needed to mitigate wait times and continue to reduce latency.
Proud of those 4 percent of Xbox players supporting games with their wallet and going physical. Not a joke.
Certainly worthy of praise.
For the rest of you, you deserve Microsoft doing things like DRM check-ins. Y'all are too excited to see an all digital future without pushing these companies to do better with digital rights first.
Here hoping they got a healthy deal from Microsoft. If they do DLC they may be able to cash in on a bunch of GP subscribers. And of course really nice to see this selling so well on PlayStation.
Good! I'm glad Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 got a strong debut. We'll deserved and I hope it continues to sell well.
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While we’re at it, Maybe 50% of those wanted to buy it for Xbox but accidentally bought the PS5 version instead and will be taking it back to the store to exchange it in the coming days.
This is why devs praise being on Game Pass. They know that the Xbox install base won't buy their game anyway, and they get a nice payout upfront. It's a complete win win.
This game could have made more if it wasn't on gamepass. Only under the radar ones benefit that much from gamepass.
I'd guess they saw the potential of the game and paid Sandfall a very (!) good amount of compensation before-hand.
Zero chance I'd ever buy an Indiana Jones game for 80 bucks though. Would much rather put that towards something like assassin's creed shadows. I did quite enjoy Indiana Jones on gamepass though.
More likely they were taking the safe option and getting a payout up front in case it didn't sell and now they are regretting it as it could have been a big hit .
who knows that ratio could have been closer to 60 40 had it not been on Game pass
The ratio will never be 60/40, not even close whatever game it is.
If this game wasn't on GamePass, the ratio would in best case scenario reach maybe 90/10.
1. Playstation install base is more than double (almost triple of Xbox).
2. Xbox gamers don't tend to spend as much money on games
3. Jrpgs are still way more popular on the Playstation consoles than on Xbox.
Many triple-A games are emphasizing graphics over depth. Not Clair Obscur.
God if War is a great game. I really enjoyed Callisto Protocol. Why do lame journos always try to knock games? I like variety. I like open world, I like linear games, I like story games, I like action games.
You don’t have to pit different style of games against each other to try and make one look better. You could make an article saying we need more turn based games and I would agree. There is so much negativity in the gaming space. Why not try telling us why this game stands on its own merits instead of shitting on other games? But Negativity gets clicks and that’s all you care about even though it’s hurting gaming.
I don't think there's as much negativity as people are being led to believe. I think there's a lot of emphasis on the very hateful/spiteful but small group of gamers. Over the years I've noticed that criticism gets lumped into the hateful speech and devs/publishers completely ignore valid criticism. Harder still for people with valid criticism to be heard when mainstream buys up everything blindly. The gaming industry is not in a good place at all with all these anti consumer bs that keeps being pushed.
Anytime I see an author/person start comparing other games. I lose interest, I don’t need you to knock or drag some other game to elevate another. I just want to know about THE GAME IM INTERESTED IN!
“There is so much negativity in the gaming space. ”
The sad truth is that negativity gets hits, so bad sites (like The Gamer, which is one of the worst examples) uses 'hot takes' to get hits and thus make money. I've run a few sites over the years and it was frustrating that a thoughtful positive piece would get a quarter of the hits of a sloppy negative piece.
One of those makes money, one of them doesn't. Eventually people either leave gaming journalism (like I did) or they lean into it and tell themselves they're keeping the industry honest or something so that they can sleep at night.
Yeah even among gaming fans people hate others for being excited about things they don't like no matter how little.
It's like someone saying hey I liked forspoken
And it's met with your a piece of s***t and you suck because your funding bad things in the industry
Its perception. People view certain aspects of gaming to be superior to others. I try to appreciate games for their unique, virtually irreplicable traits and features.
Typically the negative people are the loudest and have the largest platforms like Youtube and Instagram promoting their content to the level of pop superstars. Unfortunately publishers and the gaming press listen to them most.
I’m confused. The author complains about linearity experiences in these games that are pretty… and then praises Expedition 33 for linearity and neglects that it’s also a looker? Also, the phrase Pretty-‘Em-Ups is absolutely stupid.
Poorly thought out opinions that read like GenAI Slop is kind of The Gamer's brand.
I don’t know if I would really call Clair Obscure a “looker”, Artistically its pretty amazing, but on a technical level it 100% feels like a last gen game that can be maxed out on PC.
But lightning, shadows, especially textures (those can be quite bad for some things), etc, they can be pretty average looking
Not that I’m necessarily complaining, good art direction will almost always trumps over those things specially if its a matter of prioritizing other areas like gameplay or story(which this game definitely does)
If i wasnt playing Oblivion this is what i would be playing, will defnitely be getting this in future
I'm not complaining about the price because I was thinking of picking this game up. It looks pretty good
This will generate an awful lot of goodwill. Hope the game is decent and sells well for them
It looks really good though. What the..
At that price along with positive reviews, I expect it to sell over 1 million in 24 hrs.
Well it will be on Gamepass, so that is where the majority of sales will come from anyways.