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@nomither6 That chart should be updated to include Fairgames.

@Fizza Actually, it was the top 5 of the NPD charts that Marathon allegedly needed to hit to be considered a success within Bungie. It that's true, whoever set that bar to hit within Bungie is a moron.

Alinea Analytics isn't one of the sources I have the highest amount of trust in, so I'm taking this information with a large grain of salt.

That being said, given every other publicly visible bit of info out there concerning player numbers, chart positions, and third-party estimates, these numbers wouldn't surprise me. Marathon is a demanding game within an already niche genre, and Sony and Bungie spending the colossal amount of money they did on this project and its developer almost guarantees nothing but meteoric success and retention will be seen as satisfactory in their eyes. Sorry, this isn't "haters caused this game to fail" or "PlayStation gamers won't try anything but single-player games" type of stuff. This situation is yet another case of Bungie and modern PlayStation making very bad business and financial moves.

LOL what the hell is going on at PlayStation??

Really, really excited to see what this game is all about. Even with their recent blunders, RGG remains a studio that has my attention.

Stranger Than Heaven? I'm there!

Wow, that gold Alicia case is stunning.

Both ranked and Cryo being locked to weekends only is a really stupid idea imo given the slowly bleeding player numbers.

Let's see if Bethesda can properly update it without breaking things and causing new problems.

Square Enix is the beacon of dumb business decisions, so this doesn't surprise me.

It should be nominated for even more awards.

I still just can't believe the bubble of delusion they created within that studio.

Buy a PS5, crybabies.

@Oram77 It will, but at least we get much clearer pictures of what is true and what isn't than we do now by only having a limited peek at Steam's stats. Even as it is now, I wish we got way more information with Steamdb beyond active players and peak concurrent counts.

If we got in-depth insights like that, I would gladly accept the trade-off of a bunch of annoying and lying grifters using the stats to push their narrative.

The only thing that can combat information misrepresentation is more transparency and context. Frankly, regardless of who uses it for whatever purpose, I think we need a Steamdb-type service for every single publicly-usable platform. Steamdb only seems to be a problem when it affects certain games negatively, and we never have these conversations about "maidenless behavior" when Steamdb shows a game doing really, really well without much other context to go on.

For a moment, I actually thought that was a Charizard in the thumbnail.

The first Legends was one of the very rare live service offerings I put a significant amount of time into with friends, and I'm sure this version of it will be really fun too. Legends is what Last of Us Online should have been imo

I had my problems with Returnal, but I maintain the opinion that it's easily the most unique game from Sony this gen. It must have done something right with me that I was willing to grind for the platinum trophy. I trust Housemarque to do some cool s**t with Saros.

Oh, give me a ****ing break. Bungie knew damn well what they were doing when they designed the microtransactions that way, and are only pivoting because they got called out.

Also, 88k peak concurrent players on Steam during your release weekend is not good, considering Sony spent nearly $4 billion on Bungie, spent millions more on Marathon, and has to spend many more millions to support it. There's no way Sony is pleased with these launch weekend numbers. Bungie is also obsessed with daily active users as their main metric, so they're going to pull every scummy trick in the book to increase that number.

As others have said, I'd love more games on the scale of Sons of Sparta but not the quality of it.

Ugh this breaks my heart...

A damn solid 7 for me. I enjoyed it a lot.

This was maybe the biggest disappointment of last year for me. Its beautiful art and music are almost completely wasted on such a dull and shallow game.

This is actually Kojima. Trust me. 🤡

Wow, sooner than I thought.

Shame Team Asobi didn't contribute. I need a sneak peak at a Marathon VIP bot.

I've been eagerly awaiting this day from the perspective of someone who is fascinated by game stats and this whole Sony live service saga.

Also, for those who are expecting/want this to fail, I can GUARANTEE you it won't in the short term. Bungie's name alone will drive a lot of sales.

Music to my ears.

@TheArt As suicidal as that would be for Xbox, I'd greatly respect the balls to do something that extreme.

@ButterySmooth30FPS I very rarely say something "offends" me in the gaming space, but Xbox's nakedly cynical reasons for gaslighting people into thinking exclusives were bad and antiquated were genuinely offensive to me. I didn't tolerate that for a second.

@Weebleman It blows my mind when people I personally know don't understand this basic concept and then cry that PlayStation is dominating due to a lack of competition. Gee, I wonder what the major thing that drives competition among consoles is... 🤔🤔🤔

@Krlozgod I don't own an Xbox, but I would have been ecstatic if Xbox had removed their exclusives from PC and told me verbatim "if you want to play Bethesda games, buy an Xbox". I'm a firm believer in exclusives, and I'd gladly miss out on a few games due to not owning the system if it meant Xbox was thriving and competitive in that space again.

I will forever resent Xbox for driving this crap narrative that exclusives are bad and anti-consumer because they are ass at attracting people to buy their own exclusives and consoles. Good riddance to that nonsense.

@Oram77 God bless whoever that faction is within PlayStation that thought going to PC dilutes their identity.

Excellent news. I will always champion PlayStation Studios first-party single-player games staying exclusive to PlayStation consoles. Very few people cause drama when Nintendo games are exclusive to Nintendo consoles, yet when PlayStation does the same thing, it's labeled as "anti-consumer" by some. Cry me a damn river.

Then how about an hour of uncut PS5/XSX footage to prove people's suspicions wrong? If they really have nothing to hide, that level of transparency shouldn't be a problem.

Concord 2: Highguardin'

@MrPeanutbutterz Harsh but true!

I guess I'm in the minority who thinks playing as Faye possibly at the peak of her power is a far more enticing prospect than playing as Freya or Atreus.

@johnedwin I'm sure that's what it will be. Just some hopium on my end that they take this in a far less boring direction than a prequel.

Faye is an intriguing choice as a protagonist. I loved her scenes in Ragnarök and really like Deborah Ann Woll, but I really hope it's not a prequel. My hope is it's set after her death in the Norse realm and she's reincarnated in a separate Egyptian realm. The detail about it having combat way more in line with DMC pleases me.

@somnambulance I think there's so much potential for a really dark and disturbing sci-fi body horror single-player FPS with Marathon, but the tone in the cutscenes and the actual game feels like a mismatch. I'm just not sure what Bungie was going for here.

I'd say thoroughly whelmed is how I feel about Marathon. After spending a few hours yesterday in both solo and squad with friends, there's something lacking about this that I can't quite put my finger on. Even the friends I was playing with seemed pretty indifferent to it, and they're way more into PvP shooters than I am.

Slime Rancher 2 is the big one for me.

What a massive waste of talent.

LOL anyone believing her carefully corpo PR-crafted nonsense is waaaaay too naive for their own good

Asha Sharma is the WORST person they could have gotten as the next Xbox lead. It's over, Xbox gang. Xbox is truly dead.

I don't need a full-on Bloodborne remake. Just update the damn thing to 60fps and I'll be golden. The lack of that when other PS4 games have gotten this patch is insane to me, especially given how beloved Bloodborne is.

@LogicStrikesAgain Them closing Bluepoint after more than 15 years of successful partnerships, during this gold rush of remakes, and after recently announcing a God of War trilogy remake is absolutely on the level of them closing Naughty Dog to me. Both follow a logic of brain-breaking stupidity and mismanagement.

@Oram77 I am too lol. It's like a bad dream I can't wake up from.