MachineGames has been working on other unannounced projects alongside its latest action-adventure game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
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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.
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.
Proud of those 4 percent of Xbox players supporting games with their wallet and going physical. Not a joke.
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.
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.
Wolfenstein III?
Quake Reboot?
Good. Indy looks great and I’m looking forward to playing it, but I’d to see Machine Games getting stuck making just Indiana Jones games
No they haven't.
Good news. They did a great job on IJ. Cant wait to see what they do next. Hopefully another Wolfenstein is coming.
Praying for a proper Wolfenstein 3 that throws Young Blood into a what-if alternate timeline. I didn't even hate YB like most - the gameplay and killing Nazis was still solid and fun, but it was short and repetitive.