Yes, because has Sony released so many successful first party games in 2026...

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

What other exclusives did they release this year? Saros?

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.

The masses of non passionate gamers don't care the public perception or what the press has to say about a game. Especially so with popular franchises, see Pokemon, FIFA and Call of Duty as an example.

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.

Seems like an alright $5 buy down the road.

The bar is really low..

Atleast a new Hideo Kojima game should be coming soon...

Just barely eking out heavy hitters like Marathon, Marvel Tokon or God of War Sons of Sparta I bet.

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.

wow...shocking

well, not that shocking...

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.

It’s so bad that it’s good in the end

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.