• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There’s just too much bad rep.

    On the one hand, that’s not a bet I’d take since No Man’s Sky exists.

    On the other hand, NMS is definitely the exception, not the rule.

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      2 months ago

      I assume, NMS made money from their launch, despite it being so underwhelming, and that’s what they used to patch up the game.

      Concord seems to have made essentially no money…

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        2 months ago

        25K units sold TOTAL. 10 on steam, 15 on psn.

        Some quick math, steam takes a 30% cut (10k * 40 * .7 = 280k), and since this is a sony published game sony got to keep 100% on their platform (15k * 40 = 600k). Sony made less than 1 mill in revenue on this game which allegedly cost 100M to develop.

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      2 months ago

      People wanted NMS, they wanted NMS to be good.

      It was a let down when it wasn’t.

      No one wanted this. No one thought it would be good.

      It was a laugh when it failed.

      They aren’t the same.