SeaDaVie

@RoomWithaMoose

Like, you're right that 3rd-party games have historically been what sell on PlayStation in Japan. But why doesn't Sony have an ongoing JRPG series, then? Or their own Resident Evil?

Ghost of Tsushima actually sold 1m+ copies in Japan.Thats better than any of their Japanese style games ever managed. Spider-Man was over 250k physical only, and that is still much better than gravity rush 2, The Last Guardian etc.

If they actually wanted to make a game specifically for the Japanese market it would probably just be an anime gacha game like Genshin Impact.

Things I learned today: it takes an absurd amount of RAM to draw a man with 6 fingers, 1 arm and 3 feet.

Or, they could have just got me a pukka pad and a bic.

@GirlVersusGame You, are 100% the problem. Your ignorance and stupidity is beyond comprehension.

@CP2 Who was imprisoned for nonviolent statements exactly?

Based on Avowed and the Outer Worlds 2 I think that Obsidian need to combine both teams into one group(and hire a proper animation team) and fully commit to making the best version of one of these kinds of games possible.

A proper AAA game with high end cinematic storytelling. Also, I can’t believe i’m saying this, but, less words too. I think video games have gotten a bit out of control with the word counting for their epic RPGs and they need to go back to basics with the storytelling. Writing by subtraction; anything unnecessary or not fulfilling an important role should be cut.

I remember when Square Enix sold off these two western studios(Edison Montreal and Crystal Dynamics) and people were talking about how ridiculous it was that they only got $300m for them(plus the removal of a $100m a year upkeep cost for the 1100 employees).

Here we are 3.5 years later with no games released, and Eidos Montreal can’t even get a game picked up, never mind completed. They both appear to be Microsoft support studios now as they were probably the only company willing to spend crazy amounts of money on support studios of this nature and I suspect that gravy train has dried up now when existing contracts expire.

@species Why does being arrested represent some important bar? Being arrested can mean a million different things. You can have a police officer tell you that you will need to come into court one day and maybe get slapped on the wrist and a suspended sentence. Or you can go be going to jail for 50 years.

I can’t imagine there is anyone that has ever been given jail time in a European country for saying something that didn’t directly incite violence.

There was a group of people that got jail sentences for things they posted last year in the UK, but they were all for making posts that incited violence against immigrants. Specifically telling people to burn down hotels with them inside.

Is getting a slap on the wrist at a low level local court worse than getting sued for defamation for an amount of money that would bankrupt you for the rest of your life?

@species There are dozens of examples of trump suing people or threatening to sue over them saying things he didn’t like.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-sue-new-york-times-cnn-iran-bombing-b2777966.html#

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-threatens-sue-anonymous-sources-2036621

Wealthy demanding reparations for speech? Where did you get that? Do you have an evodence of someone actually arrested for speech in the US? The law applies the same to everyone.

Do you even know how US law works? Libel/defamination is a civil court matter. You can sue anyone for libel anytime you want, as long as you have the money to do so. Hell, even if you have absolutely nothing to go on, you still wasted their time and energy.

One of Trumps failed attempts at defamination(i.e. words he didn’t like):

https://newrepublic.com/post/203641/donald-trump-loss-guardian-defamation-james-comey

@species

Brother even in the biased article you yourself selected it says launch investigation, not arrest.

What exactly do you think opening an ongoing federal criminal investigation against someone is? That’s part of the arrest procedure. You can argue semantics of it makes you feel better about the head of state using law enforcement to fulfil personal vendettas against people that speak out against him.

Of course freedom of speech is a lot nicer when you have aggressive libel laws, that are basically only affordable by the wealthy, right? How often does the current administration threaten to sue people for billions of dollars for saying something they didn’t like? Oh, that’s fine though. As long as it’s a civil law it doesn’t matter.

So anyone can say anything they want, but only the wealthy can use the courts to demand reparations for it. Truly a brilliant place.

@Jammer Weren’t both of those started under the previous conservative government? So what exactly is the point?

Jury trial are most being removed, only in some cases, and already most cases are tried by magistrates and not juries.

Honestly the idea of being tried by a jury of your peers, rather than a legal expert, seems completely outdated and nonsensical to me. Have you met 12 random people on the street?

@species Let’s also not forget that Trump publicly directs his AG to arrest people that speak out against him

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5246524-trump-literally-wants-these-two-men-arrested-for-criticizing-him/

@Jammer I’m pretty sure they have bosses that make their decisions on these things, and not, you know, a phone call from Keir Starmer or whoever.

Especially since all communications between these organisations are openly recorded and vulnerable to freedom of information requests. Or I guess it’s better to ignore all that and live with conspiracies.

@species https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country

USA currently ranked 54th for global freedoms in 2025. One point behind Argentina, equal with Mongolia and a point ahead of Panama.

Of course, if the freedoms being eroded are not the ones you care about then it’s ok, right?

@species Do you actually think that in the USA you can just say anything you want anytime you want and you will never be arrested?

@species https://abcnews.go.com/US/report-warns-disturbing-normalization-book-bans-us-schools/story?id=126152594

6873 books banned from schools in the last year. And not for “sexual violence” stop being a fox news echo chamber. Some of them just got banned for simply exploring themes like racism.

And guess what, this came directly from government. This is the government telling people what they are allowed to talk about. How does this fit in with the narrative of letting people say what they want and then facing the consequences?

@species The law has dictated what one can and can’t say for hundreds of years. I don’t know what reality you live in where you think it has been otherwise.

Secondly, the government has never once arrested anyone in Germany or the UK. Only the police and other authorities can do so.

@species

Barring inciting violence you should be able to say anything you want and then face consequences(like getting punched in the balls)

The consequences are getting arrested.

Thank god i live in the US where it isnt a goverment deciding whats gross and offensive and what should and shouldnt exist.

Jesus Christ you must live in an alternate reality, or at least get news from nowhere except Fox. The current US government is one of the most aggressive in the history on the modern western world of censoring and banning things that don’t align with their belief set.

USA school book purge
The USA school book purge has become a significant issue, with a report indicating 6,870 instances of book bans in the 2024-2025 school year across 23 states and 87 public school districts. The bans primarily target books about race, racism, LGBTQ+ issues, and some books for young adults that include sexual references or discuss sexual violence. The bans have affected 2,308 authors

https://abcnews.go.com/US/report-warns-disturbing-normalization-book-bans-us-schools/story?id=126152594

@species Millions of people post memes in the UK everyday without getting arrested, and zero people are openly gay in Saudi Arabia without facing outrageous punishments.

Not to mention both of those countries are looking more 3rd world than SA every day.

GDP per head in 2025 as per the IMF

Germany - $59,993
UK - $56,662
Saudi Arabia - $35,231

That’s despite massive oil revenue and the numbers being skewed by vast amounts of money being concentrated in a very small group of people. Without oil Saudi Arabia would be a full-on third world country with mass starvation and poverty. Isn’t it funny how the countries with the most restrictive regimes are always the ones run the most poorly and inefficiently.

This just sounds like one of those faux defiant statements aimed squarely at appeasing their own fanbase over a issue that was never actually real. Was there actually anyone in the world demanding a Yakuza set in America starring Joshua Smith the ex-investment fraudster?

Shovel knight made so much money that they should have been set for life. If they're in this position I'd assume some really poor management decisions were made.

The team size apparently being well in excess of 15 seems like one those decisions.

The game should easily sell 200k copies though.

@Vipor007 PureXbox headlines use the exact same formatting. I'm pretty sure it's for search engine algorithms.

@darylb24 Every single Sony first party game sells for years and years. GoY easily sells 10m+.

@darylb24

I think if both consoles were available for the whole year then we all know who

In the UK? That seems bold since the PS5 has outsold the Switch across Europe for the last 3 months, from August to October, and it wasn't even close. In Spain last week it was over 5:1 according to GSD(the 4:1 source was actually under tracking the PS5). The Switch 2 had the big launch boost and will do well in December buts it's European sales are somewhere around decent, but looks a lot stronger since they're being compared primarily to supply constrained consoles in the past.

@SMJ Exactly(although the PSP outsold the GBA*). So maybe reread what you said before.

*Also outsold the Virtual Boy

@Blaze215

For a sony AAA first party game 3.3 isn't good

😂😂😂

@SMJ

I get what you're saying but I think the whole "Japanese Gamers Only Want Handhelds" is a myth. Yes there's a huge handheld market in Japan. But that has always been true (since Game Boy) and doesn't tell the whole story.
Japan likes good games

The PSP sold more units in Japan than any dedicated home console in Nintendo’s entire history. That’s basically the whole story right there.

The N64 had Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time and it sold 5.54m units in Japan.

@Realist Battlefield 6 went on sale, on PSN, for the first time on November 21st at 15% off.

Destiny and Destiny 2 have done so many things wrong, for so many years that it’s basically a lost cause now. Despite there being a lot of very good content in there.

I hope they learned a lot, and they are going to take it on board for Marathon and Destiny 3, They already implemented a ton of things in Marathon that was requested after the April test - Prox chat, Solo queues, moving back slightly from the hero system. I hope this is a sign of things to come, as core gameplay by Bungie is still completely exceptional.

These ones were so obviously fake though. I don’t think any proper sites even bothered to report on them.

@Haruki_NLI The Switch 2 was reduced by 50 euros in Spain according to the source of these charts.

Edit: Looks like it wasn't an official sale but retailers taking a 50 euro hit on their own profit margin. Probably quite indicative of the Switch 2 underperforming in the country, which was a very strong country for the Switch.

This is interesting as lifetime sales of the PS4 and Switch in Spain were much closer than other European countries(except France I believe).

Not sure how accurate it is but I read the PS4 sold 3.9m in Spain and the Switch 3.5m.

The Switch 2 was also discounted by €50 euros for the base model and the MK bundle. However, Nintendo consoles tend to skew more towards December sales than Black Friday.

@UltimateOtaku91 In as much as Ghost of Yotei is a sequel

Do you know how many games in the Nintendo Switch top-25 best selling games are not sequels? One. Ring Fit Adventure. Which is a spiritual successor to Wii Fit.

That artwork is really quite something 🤣

@nessisonett I'm pretty sure it's a fully licensed product

I’m 42 and never been happier with a system. I took a big break at one point from playing console games, had an Xbox 360 but not a PS3 and then never had another console until the PS4 in 2019. Maybe that’s why I’m not a miserable sod.

@MasterChiefWiggum I know parrying has become synonymous with the souls like experience but it's actually a massive msinomer.

The parry mechanic was core to Sekiro, and to a lesser extent Bloodborne, but it was never a essential skill in Dark Souls or Elden Ring. In fact I've never once parried in those games, and don't even have a shield equipped 95% of the time.

Noah hawley is one of the best in the business. Him making a Farcry series is quite unbelievable.

Everyone knew A.I. Would f*** us, we just didn't have the imagination to envision how.

@Striker21 lol, I'm not reading another wall of text. You just keep focusing on one stat and saying it defines the entire industry despite record revenues, record profits, record software sales. You're talking nonsense. The video game industry is massive now compared to 15 years ago.

Revenues have increased 400%. Console stagnation though eh mate.

Hardware doesn't make profit. Software does. Services do.

Higher prices of hardware have pushed out the lower end of the market meaning their is now a greater proportion of high end spenders. That's how markets naturally evolve.

A greater number of people are playing the PS4 still this generation. Those are all active market participants that are just as relevant as PS5 owners.

@cburg It's pretty funny the way Xbox fans suddenly regard CoD as one of their own, that must be defended, and anyone attacking it is an xbox hater. Like, you wouldn't see a bunch of PlayStation fans getting offended at people bashing Destiny 2, 99% would jump in to pile on.

@Lavishturtle

The faster live service games fail the faster money starts going to good games again.

Bad news for you then, the 3 biggest games of the year were probably all live service: Battlefield 6, Monster Hunter Wilds and Arc Raiders

Meanwhile, games like League of Legends and Fortnite continue to have 100m monthly active users, but don’t let me disturb you guys from your alternate realities where the failure of every live service game validates your innate biases, but the failure of any single player game is irrelavent and not even worth mentioning.

@Striker21 The distinction beetween ps4 and 5 is irrelavent. They are sales right now, sales to active customers. Those people are part of the current market. Happening within a single generational period.

The PS2 sold 160m but it did it over 13+ years. It was released in 2000, and discontinued in 2013. It was sold at $99 eventually and made a lot of sales during the period of the PS3. It’s no surprise the PS3 was the worst selling PS. That 160m sales represent sales over 2 entire generations, and not within a single generational period. The PS3 released in 2006 and during the fiscal year ending march 2007 the PS2 sold 14.2m units. The year after it sold 13.7m, then 7.9m, then 7.3m, then 6.4m.

In March 2006, 8 months before the PS3 released, the PS2 had shipped 103.69m units. That is closer to a single generational period.

Entire Software sales were 1.537m for its whole lifetime, 13 years of production and more than 13 years of sale. Software sales in the current year are now 300m+ a year.

Hardware unit sales are not increasing because the Barriers to entry are much higher, prices do not decrease so low, but everyone that buys a console now generally buys more games because the higher price creates an effect where the less casual players don’t get it and a higher percentage of more dedicated customers do. So overall revenue is massively increasing, along with overall profitability, and active users.

@Striker21 Yes, I checked every one. I check them every time they release a new quarterly report(I was previously an economics researcher and ACCA chartered accountant so it’s not exactly unusual to be looking at this kind of thing).

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/archive.html

Here is all the reports. Click on Supplemental information and go to page 12(it actually varies slightly, but normally 10-15)for the most recent report. It will tell you the yearly software sales in units and also the breakdown for every quarter. Each full year report will have the current year and the previous year. So you can check 10 years in like 5 reports.