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Feel like I remember reading awhile back that Sony had already chosen to go with AMD again for PS6 while Xbox were still shopping around.

It made me think Xbox was unsure whether to commit because they were still unsure whether they'll even make another proper next gen console.

Even more reason for Sony to try and buy them after they get Kodokawa then.

While everyone is crying about this it seems it may have been a move from Kodokawa and Sony to prevent a takeover from a South Korean conglomerate called Kakao which makes sense because Japanese companies prefer to stay in Japanese hands.

Well I just bought it dirt cheap recently but haven't tried it yet so I guess I'll wait for the update.

@Matroska Yeah it's 5th but the lowest 13 are only separated by a few hundred players and the rest just a couple of thousand. Like I said before a few of them don't actually hit their peaks until much later when they go into the steam sales. The point is Lego games just don't do well on steam at launch apart from one outlier. Even the 4 top games out of the 25 games with 5k odd peak players are not good numbers either, sure they are better than horizon but they are still bad.

Maybe they have some data that tells them PC players are more likely to buy expensive limited edition Lego sets or something because Lego games on steam always seem to flop.

@Matroska have you ever looked at the Lego games on steam? Apart from Lego Skywalker Saga they all have low CCUs and most don't even get their peaks until months and sometimes years later. Lego Harry Potter Collection only hit its peak last month.

Lifetime Peak Concurrent Players

• Lego Incredibles - 285
• Lego Pirates of the Caribbean - 468
• Lego Harry potter years 5-7 - 326
• Lego Star Wars Clone Wars - 832
• Lego Batman 2 - 523
• Lego Batman 3 - 2,186
• Lego City Undercover - 833
• Lego Harry potter collection - 620
• Lego 2k Drive - 1,039
• Lego DC Supervillains - 866
• Lego movie - 1,402
• Lego Marvel Avengers - 2,112

Out of 25 Lego games on steam 18 of them have less than 3k peaks and only 1 of them has more than 6k and that's the Skywalker Saga with 82k.

Lego games just don't do well on steam at least at launch to the point I'm wondering why the publishers even bother putting them on there, maybe they have long tails and are basically evergreens or something so they eventually make a profit otherwise it just seems like a waste of time.

Hopefully this is real and if it's it'll sail through no problem despite what the haters want people to believe then they can go after CD Project Red next.

Just realised that playstation is the only platform that you can currently play all of those game of the year games on.

@AdamNovice Yeah Sony is also the most nominated publisher this year as well with 16 nominations and Astrobot & Rebirth both have the most nominations with 7 each.

The fact that you can't play shadow of the erdtree without owning Elden Ring means it shouldn't even be eligible also if it or Balatro wins I'll never watch the game awards again.

EDIT: Black ops 6 can suck it as well.

Remakes yeah sure but remasters and DLC definitely shouldn't be eligible. They should get their own category.

@Porco why would they need to announce sales numbers for a controller, now the Xbox One X on the other hand, hmm, I wonder why we never got them.

@Porco you know exactly what I meant. It is off to a decent start and in Hiroki's own words the sales have been slightly stronger than the PS4 Pro's and the price is higher as well.

Keep hating though, in fact why don't you go on another rant about the Portal even though we only hear good things about the monthly sales for that as well. 👍

@Porco Except we know it sold well in Japan and the US already.

As Sammy has said this just seems to be a UK price match type of thing but we'll know more once Dring gives some info on it.

I read the headline and was scratching my head thinking was Shadows supposed to be live service game and I missed it anyway this game is definitely not for me.

@Ravix It already went back up to £690 at Argos.

So Xbox console sales still decreased even though they put Cod on gamepass.

Stick a fork in it Phil it's done and down 11% on MW3 which is one of the worst cod's that underperformed by cod standards lol. I guess the big question is how much it helped increase subs but Xbox will never give those numbers and I doubt it was massive if it couldn't even increase sales lmao.

So what's almost exactly the same according to Dring? 10% less? 20% or maybe even more. He's quick to throw out the percentages for other games but it's clear he can't be trusted with this one.

Dring also said it sold worse than Star Wars Outlaws which you've conveniently left out of this article and it took about a month for outlaws to sell about 1 million copies so this statement by him is so vague and pointless it means absolutely nothing.

He didn't even give any percentages like he usually does. He was as vague as possible and tried to paint it in a good light, which is hilarious because he ***** on Rebirth sales but suddenly Veilguard is doing okay according to him, yeah no make it make sense.

Ngl this did make me smile.

Pissing the night away... he drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink, he drinks a lager drink

Memories man, memories.

.@Mikey856 lighten up.

@breakneck If they did get the Physint IP in return then that's probably a good deal because a stealth action espionage game by Kojima will obviously have a wider appeal than death stranding.

Kojima probably had the option to buy the rights back or they just automatically reverted although I suppose there could have been some kind of deal where Sony gets the Physint IP in return..

Didn't Game Science hint at a DLC? If it does get a Pro patch it'll probably come with the DLC.

I saw the manual and apparently the Pro has 18gb of ram as well, which I was not expecting.

@DennisReynolds I saw a post with a big list of reviews that had what I would call legitimate criticism of the game. Which said go check Steam to check if these reviews are still there and I looked and they had been deleted but I did see plenty of reviews still there that people are posting just to counteract any review bombing.

Blatant comments like the game is just a 3 star game but I'm giving it a 5 because of review bombers or others like the game is a laggy mess for me despite what digital foundry said I can't get the game to run properly but I'll still give it 5 stars to own the chuds and incels.

There actually seems to be quite a lot of reverse review bombing going on for it which is working exceptionally well because of Steam deleting critical reviews and if the concurrent barely surpasses launch day then we can assume there was quite a few refunds happening as well and that the game hasn't really sold well on steam at all.

@DennisReynolds Yeah but that's only because Steam has been hard at work deleting bad reviews, even a lot of the one's that had some legitimate criticism of the game but conveniently leaving the ones that say they are just scoring it 5 stars to counteract any review bombing.

This is just Sony port numbers of their old games which we know don't sell very well on PC in the long run.

A better comparison would be dragons dogma 2 it is a recent game that had 228k concurrent on steam and took 2 weeks to sell 2.5 million on all platforms. Except DD2 obviously had a much lower budget than DAV.

Gamalytic has this estimated to have sold about 211k so far and even if it has done 3x that on console (doubt) which is actually not bad but not really that good for something that was originally highly anticipated and part of a massively popular franchise.

Circana & Dring will obviously be very kind with their statements about the sales, for that I have no doubt but I think we're going to be looking at Star Wars Outlaws flop numbers for DAV when all is said and done.

Steam count and Gamalytic aren't that reliable half the time though and sales could have already dropped off a cliff.

The bottom plates fit but the top plates don't and I'm sure I already knew this. I remember reading about it on Reddit a few weeks back.

I've almost bought Ghostwire and Hot wheels a couple of times but never pulled the trigger so definitely happy with this.

Played it on release day and I'm definitely ready to jump back in now.

Looks amazing and I'm definitely upgrading. The only shot I liked more on the original was in the mountain pass with the red sky but could that partly be down to the day and night cycle maybe?

Yeah Firewalk definitely deserved to be closed.

@TheTraditional Twisted Metal was just a pitch that got rejected.

Well it was either close them or make them a support studio because it's obvious they couldn't be trusted to make their own game again.

@Titntin I'm happy you like what you see, good for you and I've watched plenty of reviews and videos about this game because I like the old dragon age games but I definitely don't like what I see with this one so I'm going to let that be known just like how you're saying I'm looking forward to it or you're going to give it a chance.

Unfortunately for you, you can't silence people. If you can't handle any criticism of the game then just ignore my comments on articles about this game, that should be simple enough right.

@Titntin The game has really bad writing and dialogue so it's definitely not a 10/10 so for that reason alone anyone giving it a 10 definitely cannot be trusted.

Especially Eurogamer, I've long since lost any faith I had in their reviews.

Forgot about this until I saw this article again but I just checked and I've still got a £10 option.

The 3 games that were cancelled were Battlecrush, Miniverse and Doguri adventure. There was no mention of the Horizon mmo mobile game whatsoever or any indication that its development was actually impacted but I guess that sub heading spices up this article.

I'm in the UK but I'm only seeing the £10 option so yeah it must be a bug.

Looks like a game you could get lost in but that UK pricing makes no sense.

I guess the upgrade isn't available for physical copies until release day because I looked and can't find it but I'm definitely buying it when I get the chance. It looks great and well worth it.

Looking at the sales charts for it in the month it released it was 13th in the US according to Circana and 4th in the UK from the Nintendo Life article with almost all the sales being split between Playstation and Nintendo.

Xbox's numbers for it were irrelevant as usual, I guess they just looked at it as a should've been on Gamepass game but I wonder what the PC sales were like, anyway it's a shame if they've been closed, hopefully the talent gets picked up by other studios straight away.

EDIT: looking at the Steam lifetime concurrent it definitely flopped on there as well.

@Keyblade-Dan Don't be, Christopher Dring said it was a massive hit across Europe and its launch sales are up 140% compared to FighterZ which was the fastest selling Dragonball game in Europe.

Well Sony are trying to increase their market share in China and Korea so maybe they thought this game could help them do that in those markets.

1st week sales splits between disc and digital for new popular AAA games would interest me more.

Yeah personally I'd prefer they focused on Wolverine and that Venom game if it's actually happening.

@Deoxyr1bose Would you have preferred if they waited 2 more days before they announced it? It'll have been 15 months by the time it releases on PC anyway and honestly I'm surprised this one didn't come sooner because of that leaked build from the insomniac hack.

@LowDefAl Then I guess you'll be happy to hear physical copies sold out in loads of countries really fast and now there's long wait times for a physical copy while retailers are waiting for new stock.