One of the most common sources of alienation for me is seeing what other people, my alleged peers, spend their money on.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if everyone's spending habits became like mine. Lot of industries and practices would die.
Idiots will buy anything.
Well...they won't buy Concord.
Concord was a brand new IP, this is an established popular IP. The brand recognition alone probably sells a million units.
Or 1.9m in this case.
Damn... even idiots know that game sucks.
It must sting for the devs.
Idiots will pre-order anything. There were probably a lot of sales before the controversy even started.
This right here.
I am sure a shit load of those sales were pre-release sales made by consumers that assumed the goodwill of Insomniac would translate to a win.
There is no reason to preorder a game especially on a platform that doesn’t regularly offer refunds.
Doesn’t sound like it’s a bad game, it’s just not anything amazing
I won a copy so I will play it one day
Well it is a game for idiots
Yes, because has Sony released so many successful first party games in 2026...
Lol I had to double check because I couldn't remember any.
We got...
And this.
woof
Literally no reason to open a PS5 in the big 26’
It's always funny to see people on lemmy calling for boycotts, saying how stupid companies are for not making products they want to buy and predicting how badly things will fail only for the masses to completely ignore all this and spend money on the same shit as always.
Could be an echo effect. 90% of people don't really pay attention to gaming media or hate trains - they just see a cool new game in stores while most of their attention is elsewhere.
The "echo" element would be that if most of their knowledge of gaming is from playing things, not reading about them, they may decide "Wow, Sony usually makes great stuff, but last one I bought wasn't great. I may sit this out." I sort of saw that with Assassin's Creed Unity / Syndicate. Unity was shitty and released with terrible bugs, but Syndicate was sort of okay - and Syndicate was the one that saw lots of lost sales.
This might be a lot but keep in mind the INSANE budget for this game so despite this it's still nowhere near breaking even
So glad I canceled my pre-order for this. A three minute quick time event where you don’t have to do a damn thing?! No thanks.
The bar is really low..
Atleast a new Hideo Kojima game should be coming soon...
I can't imagine any reason to watch or play a game about american superheroes. Cringe asf.
Wolverine is Canadian.
What other exclusives did they release this year? Saros?
They also put out Ghost of Yotei and Marathon (yikes).
Marvel Tokon too if you count console exclusives that are also on PC.
Edit: Whoops, I forgot Ghost of Yotei was late last year. Unless you're counting fiscal year starting in October I guess.
wow...shocking
well, not that shocking...
Seems like an alright $5 buy down the road.
To stay on Marvel games. Midnight Suns was far from perfect but extremely enjoyable... Pretty sure you can get it for 5$ now.
I'm not convinced it's even worth my time, much less money.
Gotta save your money for the Stream Frame brudda. Every dollar counts 💀
Just barely eking out heavy hitters like Marathon, Marvel Tokon or God of War Sons of Sparta I bet.
buddy of mine bought this and I went over to his place to play it. It's boring. it holds your hand for everything and it's impossible to fail QTEs so there's just no point in doing them.
To be honest, the only good quick time event is the one you don't have to do.
Proof that gamers have no spine (once again. See also Switch 2 and PS5 sales) and that online discourse holds no prediction of real world value.
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