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Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) Mat Piscatella has revealed the PS5 version of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle boosted sales for the game to number one in the US for the week ending April 19.
First and foremost, this must be great for the folks at Machine Games. Well done & congrats!
Xbox making BIG money out of Playstation nation this year!
Oblivion Remaster is already the third biggest release on PS5 this year! Only behind (so far) of Monster Hunter: Wild and Assassins Creed Shadows!
Shadow Dropped!
Zero Marketing!
Instant Success!
So is Sega these days.
Funny really you make a good game and make it available for sale and people buy it. What a world we live in
Still this argument? Lol.
The truth is the Xbox division cannot even survive without PS now, not the other way around.
Since the majority of Xbox players absolutely REFUSE to buy and pay for games, it wouldn't be even possible to make these types of big budget games without releasing them on PS5.
It's a shame that Xbox players don't respect games and game culture enough to support them.
Playstation making BIG money out of Xbox nation this year.
Zero work, zero costs, zero risks... just collecting gold.
Just like with Sega and other big third party studios 🙌
And it's not just that 30% cut only.
Imagine if there's just one person saying:
"Mmmh, Indiana Jones is now on PS5. I just wanted to buy a new console. Oh, look here, Forza on PS now, too? Oh, what's that - Death Stranding 2 only on PS5? I guess I'm gonna get a PS5 then."
These are the decisions that lead to quarterly financial reports seen in the last one.
When Playstation made almost double the revenue of what Xbox did, with increased, even record hardware sales and profits.
It's not just that "30% cut".
Now that Xbox fanboys have accepted that xbox games will be released on PS5 (and Switch 2), Microsoft will be able to release them on Day one from now on. Just had to get people to swallow the pill.
I really gotta say I am a bit curious about E-Day.
With hardly any sales anymore, wether hardware nor software, probably not even subscriptions in a quantity they would want to have:
Is Spencer going to pull the trigger and bring Gears D1 on Playstation?
It’s what a good game from a good franchise deserves.
I still think it would have done better if it came out on PS5 day one.
That's my guess, too.
In hindsight, it's really been a bold decision to not release it on Playstation in a month like December.
But instead back in August already to announce it's going to come to Playstation, then proceed to make it a weird "4 ½ months timed exclusive", and then to release it in a time with so much competition/big games being around.
Isn't this just weird?
I mean why would you do that, purely from a business point of view speaking.
Well in reality Microsoft probably wanted to release D1 on PlayStation but probably made the decision late in development... remember in an interview Spencer said, just a few months earlier, that the game would not be coming to PlayStation.
So this is probably the result of a bunch of 'inside baseball'.
The result is that Microsoft is on pace to dominate PlayStation sales charts for the month of April and May. It's great for Sony too as they get a windfall of platforming fees from a former competitor.
All in all this is good for both companies and even better for PlayStation consumers that get access to PlayStation exclusive games like Death Stranding and Ghost of Yotie on top of games like Indiana Jones, Forza, Doom, Oblivion, 33, and GTA all in the same year.
Well, yeah. Nothing to disagree with you.
Although, as far as "dominating Playstation charts" goes:
We'll see. I have nothing against anyone dominating anything.
But this term of "domination" shouldn't be used too losely I suppose.
Indiana Jones was #1 best-selling game in a single week (so far). Let's see how Forza went.
And after May we'll have better numbers, or even after 2025.
I guess it's safe to say Clair Obscure already surpassed Indiana's sales on PS5.
It's sad that it's come to this. Sony should have just sold the PS5 Pro with the damned drive or made it so anyone who purchased one had the option of getting one at the same time.
...I just added the drive to a cart on direct.playstation.com.... If it were sold out i would not have been able to do that, or proceed to the checkout screen.
https://direct.playstation....
I got one off Best Buy a month ago, but it's silly how Sony can't just increase production. They knew people would need disc drives as not everyone who jumps to the Pro wants an all digital world.
None in stock anywhere in the UK other than scalpers on eBay.
I do agree though. Sony should really of had plenty of stock ready for the pro release.
If there was more incentive to buy digital most wouldn't even care that it doesn't come without a disc drive. If tomorrow they come out and say "you own what you buy digitally" and start having better sales, and preorder discounts I think most would probably not think twice about going full digital. Maybe also start making it standard to download only the portion of the the game you wanna play, and no forced updates that're actually just the dlc, stuff like that would convince people. Maybe even a digital trade in for physical collections. The all digital "experience" is much better on PC, 1 because prices are better, and 2 piracy ensures consumers don't get screwed over with the licensing bs. People just need to feel sure of their purchases.