According to Circana Marathon is the 4th best selling game of the year
>>737428569*^>excludes digital for participating publishers who aren't part of the Panel.Sure.
I still won't buy it
>mat pisscat's fantasy numbersyawn
Fake numbers. We'll see how Marathon really did when snoy closes down Bungie.
Looking at that chart it seems like March was a dry month. Only new game worth a fuck on that list was Requiem. Bungie lost to a 7 hour single-player game lol
>>737429174That single player game is infinitely better than Marathon.
>>737429265I wouldn't be surprised if more Bungie employees played it than Marathon
>spend months obsessively keeping track of numbers and posting about charts of a game you don't play>new numbers come out>"erm those are fake numbers okay"
>>737429360What makes Valve's data false?
>more people bought a rastlin game
>>737429419They aren't, but neither are Circana's. You don't get to pick and choose what fits your narrative.
>>737429360Let me explain it so simple a retard like you can understand it. Marathon sold 1.2 million copies, thats around 30 million dollars. There thats it thats the end, this data set is based upon revenue. So other games would have to sell more than 30 million dollars, lets say a game costs 20 bucks, itd have to sell 2.4 million units to even hit that 30 million sales figure
More people bought a wrestling game than the newest Bungie game. I guess I believe Circana
>>737429419Not false but steam numbers represent a minority
>>73742957470% is not a minority
>>737428569mhm. nice smash hit you've got there.
>>73742962070% what
Based on what I'm hearing Bungie has convinced Snoy and other retards to let the game live untill Autumn 2027. We have anything year and a half of this cancerous game being a thing unfortunately.
that's... actually really sad6th on a hilariously dry month (fucking rdr2 is 13th wtf), and we still do not have any number other than 400k discord users (now 450k)actually scratch that its not sad, im so happy to see bungie die in real time for their sins
>>737428569NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MARATHON IS A FLOP NOOOOOOOOO>>737429174Marathon surpassed Minecraft sales for 2026, that alone puts it at several million copies sold>>737429552>Marathon sold 1.2 million copiessource?
>>737429742It will be free to play within a year and then will have seasonal content until when you said to avoid legal troubles and being sued.
>>737429753>that's... actually really sadYeah it's sad how much you are coping>>737429753>6th on a hilariously dry month4th, in a month with Requiem, WWE and MLB, it basically is at the top and beat Pokopia
>>737429780>source?Paul fucking tassi who has bungie inside sources. He also confirmed marathon has a budget of at minimum 200 million>>737429723Pc accounts for around 70% of the playerbase, again as confirmed by paul tassi
>>737429879Pokopia is still selling. This isn't.
The price reduction is major red flag for this games "success".
Tendies BTFO
>>737429930>confirmedgot any solid sources for that or is it all "bro trust me"?
>>737429642
>>737429879The Circana chart leaves out a bunch of data. Go read the actual qualifiers on the data. It only has data that is shared with them, which Nintendo does not do. And it also doesn’t include digital.
WOW we went from>Marathon is a flop that will die in a weekto>Marathon is a flop because it's not the best selling game of the year overe RE9 and Sports gamesGood to knowHey guys are we done moving the goalpost? my back is hurting
>>737429930>confirmedsource?>bungie inside sourcessource?Because Circana literally takes publisher and stores data
>>737430035Surprisingly accurate. I wonder how much they are hating the fact they can't even get people to care about this in any way or form.
>>737430094They did say that Marathon has to sell 7M to break even
>>737429936we will see I guess, for now Marathon is on top, cope>>737430083Find me a more qualified and complete data aggregate thenYou won't lol
>>737428569How many copies are that?
>>737428645>does not include most gamesLMAO
>>737430148Tassi having connections with Bungie goes back ages and it’s been well known. Just like Schreier and his jew sources he can use to get news from everyone. Tassi is one of the biggest dicksuckers for Bungie. It’s only now that he’s saying some pessimistic stuff that he’s suddenly not trustworthy to the people that would normally trust him.
>>737430309Ok, sources?>>737430275cope
>>737430023https://x.com/PaulTassiHow can you be a bungie fanboy and not know who paul tassi is. This man has called several delays of destiny dlcs so many times as well as many other bits of information all about destiny https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/04/09/checking-in-on-marathon-a-month-after-launch/This guy is a trusted source when it comes to news on bungie, he has actual insider knowledge and sources.
>>737428569sub 20k daily highs now, btwit really is a success!
>SealioningNobody is falling for it. If you have even the slightest bit of realization how fucking grim marathon is when even Paul Tassi the biggest bungie dicksucker is saying it's bad. It's bad
>>737430387ok, sources? anyy hard data sales? nothing? yeah I'm going to stick with Circana>>737430275Yeah it doesn't include indieslop #372981394793423847
>>737430241There is no qualified source for sales data outside company’s own reports. Like I said, these kind of aggregate charts can only go by the data they are provided and a lot of times they don’t have any real data.
>best selling gameWell good for them that they made a bunch of money, but how does that impact the gameplay for non-stakeholders like me?
>>737430094Marathon is already dead. We've reached the point where if the server is still up with a dozen Bungie slurpers on it, it's a "win" somehow.
>>737430512you stil have utter dogshit gameplay so nothing.
Funny how people are trying to lie about how successful the game is when a single Steam chart blows all those lies away
nobody in this thread plays marathon which makes the whiteknighting for bungie that much more pathetic
>>737430570Steam represents a minority
2 months of obsessive seethingFor nothing.
>>737430574Because they think Marathon is a culture war thing when it's just a shit game. People don't cares about the game they just think some imaginary chuds killed it when it was just a bad game nobody wants.
>>737430613steam is 70% of the sales
>>737430636that's sad, at least bungiebots have an actual reason to care
I think the only people that hate this game are retarded old people treating this game like politics like they must blindly support it and anyone that hates it is evil woke tranny. Every hobby I am part of is starting to devolve into this. My local sports team's subreddit calls anyone critical of the team a tranny leftist. What is going on with people today why is it like this?
>>737430574But I do play marathon.I don't care about bungie or what happens to them, I just think (you) are as mentally ill as the troons you proclaim to hate.
>>737430662Nope
>>737430685why are you talking about trannies out of nowhere? game still flopped regardless if it had trans or not obsessed fag
>>737428569>surpasses Sony expectationslol sure
>>737430613Steam is 70% of the entire playerbase per Bungie. Barrierstation I think was barely 12%
>>737430685>What is going on with people today why is it like this? Humans are inherently religious and Conservativsm has a hierarchy (within corporations and government), dogmatic and heretical principles, and flags and icons. It nefariously plays on peoples' same sense of goodness and justice as conventional religion, but instead of encouraging good human impulses for building community, it perverts these aspects of our personality an realigns them with "preferred races/genders/sexualities". So in this context, those people have realigned the team to be part of their church. Whatever got them making those accusations was obviously something heretical to the pillars of the Conservative church.
>>737430720Uh huh. What do troons have to do with this again? You keep trying tl force them in a game that doesn't have any, as far as I'm aware
>>737430804apparently if you yhink marathon is dogshit you're a transphobe or something
>>737428640>>737428832>>737429080So did Switch 2 not win March? Is Mat wrong?
>>737430685I blame twitter. The way rightoids arguing against anyone that disagrees with them. The same shaming and insult tactics they use for all topics now. You hate PI Mouse for Hire? You are a tranny journo. They have attached being critical of anything to being a leftist. That shit should be studied.
>>737430784Genuine mental illness
marathon won/v/troons lost
game is already on salenext stop: layoffsbut the game is fine!
>>737430848NoYes
I guess the Marathon shills have a new script.
>>737430889True
>>737430894The game is thriving anon! It has a dedicated playerbase and the vibes are good! I'm having a BLAST playing it!
>>737430889>on sale>less than 10k players
>>737430852called anyone a Nazi lately?
>>737430930He thinks copypasting chunks of his script in obvious samefag fashion won't look so obvious
>>737430685>>737430784>>737430852Is this your new tactic? Fucking seriously? The game is DOGSHIT nobody is playing it
>>737430463>ok, sources? anyy hard data sales? nothing? yeah I'm going to stick with CircanaWhere's circana's hard data sales? Paul tassi gave you a number confirmed with his insider sources, circana didn't even give you a sale number just said "yep its number 6 here you go"Unlike your retarded ass I believe both and know how the information is actually translated
>>737430848>winConsole wars fried your brain.
>>737428569>4th best selling game of the yearread your own fucking screencapanyway, with the game out, daily player count is the most important metric, seeing as this is one of Sony's many live service gambles and was meant to replace Destiny 2's revenue stream
>>737430570Nigger its one metric… you steamies put way too much stock into your dead platform lmao
>>737430804>What do troons have to do with this again? That every thread has people bringing up that bungie hires them or celebrates them or whatever.Because it's culture war shit and the arguments for why the games bad is>other people think its bad>I hate bungie>troons and fags troons and fags troons and fags
The live service slop has no playerbase to sell shitty skins to, but hey at least it made enough money to burn on keeping servers up.Destiny 2 the game being left rot outnumbering Marathon's CCU means Marathon was a success actually, also trends reflected on one platform don't speak for the rest because they just don't, mmmkay?
1.2m estimated units sold, at $4080% of those sales are estimated to have been on Steam & Xbox, so taking the platform cuts into account Bungie is only walking away with $28 per unit sold on the majority of those salesWe can estimate that Marathon has earned $36,480,000 in revenue, on a budget allegedly exceeding $250,000,000. That does not include the ongoing dev/server cost. In other words, it has made roughly 1/7 of its budget back.
>>737430784>but instead of encouraging good human impulses for building community,Bro its not a secret that christians and conservatives are the group of people who donate the most to charity.
I hope bungie dies.
>>737428569bruh
TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY STOP TELLING PEOPLE YOUR FETISHES FAGGOT
>>737431147Copeonly Trannies hate marathon
>>737431091>ACCORDING TO MY CALCULATIONS!shut your bitch ass up, nerd, nobody got the real numbers
>>737431179So you love trannies?
>>737431192Transwomen are women.
Are you people dumb?It literally says that they don't have the digital data from other games.
>>737429502Our options are>look at Valve's own publicly available data and draw out own conclusionsor>use the new numbers from the experts at GoyCo
>>737431234Preach it queen#Marathon#TransRightsAreHumanRights#FuckTrump#MenWithHarris
>>737431250This website is full of esls and dumb Americans, what do you think?
>>737431250Nobody knows how to read.
>>737431250Delete this, it doesn’t fit my narrative
>>737431250it also only accounts for us where marathon did best
>>737430945I did this but it was acid at Target
>Shilling stopsI guess bungie ran out of rupees to pay
>>737431250Even ignoring the marked title wouldn't make a differenceLet's say Pokopia beats Marathon withthe total sales, Marathon is still selling several millions and beating all this year sales of Minecraft, which every year does tens of millions in copies sold
>>737431758>Marathon is still selling several million????In what world?
>>737431758>Marathon is still selling several millionsMaybe on planet retard.
Marathon went on sale a month and a half after release, this shit is a bigger flop than Veilguard was
>>737431805In the world where it outranks Minecraft in the same year and is right behind WWE
>>737431905MH Stories 3 outranked Minecraft too
>>737428569>beating crimson desert which reported 5m copies soldAnd yet Marathon only peaks at 30k CCU every day on PC, which is also lower than CD's peak?
>>737431946Yes and Marathon surpassed both
>>737431905where are you getting the "year" part from? anon?
>>737431905Do you even know how to read? This is for the month of March. And it hasn't even been an actual year yet.
>>737430387>How can you be a bungie fanboyi'm not, but good job being a retard> he has actual insider knowledge and sources.ok so it's all "trust me bro" and no actual sources? good to know
>>737431949There's no digital data from CD>>737431981From the chart
>>737431949Does the publisher participate?
>>737430620Lmfao
>>737432024>Do you even know how to read? This is for the month of March. No it's not>>737428645
>>737431905>new game sold more than 15 year old game.Charts are also in dollar sales, not units.
>>737431949it says it right there. CD doesn't include digital sales dataa lot of the other games on the list don't include digital sales data
>>737431250wait so it's all>marathon is best selling!*>*6th best>*this year to date>*in usa>*excluding some titles' digital sales(which is the majority of fucking sales nowadays)so it's literally an investor scam then? like lmaoing at this list, how does ANYONE fall for bullshit THIS blatant?
>uhhh marathon sold millions okay???Lmao so its back to delusionposting again
>>737432195Year to date includes january and february when it wasn't out
>>737432123Minecraft sold for 220M dollars in 2024 and keeps selling every single year, consistently topping the chartsThe idea that Marathon is selling badly is now out of the window because it keeps pacing with a top sellerAlso clearly the game playerbase is not so heavily centered around pc
>>737430083>And it also doesn’t include digital.Literally what the fuck is the point of the ranking then, people are buying their games digitally in CURRENT_YEAR
>>737432371>so heavily centered around pcIt is though?It has fuckall presence on consoles. The only thing this shows is that Marathon did well in the US but we already knew that.
>>737432343and? are you implying that if it came out on january it'd be first place and a smashing success or some shit?
>>737432420I'm 100% not surprised that the millennials that are the main player base for marathon still go to the funko pop store to buy their games in a plastic box like it's 2006.
>>737430361Where is your source that the Steam player numbers are the minority?
>>737432459Source?
ONE MORBILLION COPIES ON PCMARATHON CHADS RISE UP
>>737429502What is the methodology behind Circana's numbers? Where are they sourced from? Is it just some analysts making their own estimates based on publicly available data?>>737430148>Sure, but what's Tassi's actual source?Oh, we're doing this again, huh? >because Circana literally takes publisher and stores dataNo, they don't because that data is guarded more closely than your sister's cunt. Companies don't give that data to anyone and the only time they talk about actual sales numbers is when they want to brag, like with Pragmata, Crimson Desert, etc.
>>737432597Psn and xbox rankings
>>737430241>Marathon is on topI thought you shills would've learned your lesson after trying to brag about Marathon being in the top 5 Steam sales chart (briefly), but, like that one, I guess you don't understand how these Circana figures work, either.
>>737432371It didnt "sold for $220m". It generated $220m in revenue.
Is this list worldwide?
>best selling game>bungie has not actually confirmed sales numbers, only discord users>as of this post being written the game can't crack 20k CCU and regularly bottoms out below 10k
>>737432693lmao noCircana is predominantly US based
>>737432616Is this list worldwide?
Reminder that if not for the Bungie acquisition we would all be playing the global phenomenon of Factions 2 right now.
>>737431250Am I really supposed to believe a fucking baseball game is the highest seller even when it doesn't count xbox and nintendo sales
>>737432747i dont fucking knowtheir entire page is full of buzzwords and ai-generated videos, i can't figure anything out
>>737432792Murica's pastime.
We lost yet again /v/ros.... *sigh*....
>>737432792normies show up for and buy annual sports games, this is known
>>737432827It's a very cagey way of saying Circana doesn't have insider information and can only aggregate publicly available sales data, and makes a lot of inferences.Sony, MS, and others aren't letting Circana see their books, and anyone who believes otherwise is a literal retard.
>>737432907But I'd expect that from madden and nba, and fifa for the euros, not baseball. You never hear of normies buying those games.
>>737432792All the white collar people got laid off and the only people with jobs in the USA now that can afford videogames are Dominican construction workers, makes sense that baseball is topping the charts right now.
where did all the blast havers go?
This is the same circana that wasnt able to succesfully track e33 and arc raiders last year btw
>>737431250That just means that Pokopia might be above Marathon.
>>737433087And Crimson Desert
>>737428569>4th best selling game of the yearit only sold 1 million copies so thats not physically ossible
>>737433002baseball fans are another breed anon, i don't know what to tell you. they have an acceptable form of hobby autism having to do with america's pastime
This is the last hurrah for shills before everything comes tumbling down during the Sony May financial report
Where have the blast bros gone and where are all the sales?Where's the Indian paid-off shill to fight the charts of chuds?Isn't there more funding to get from Sony's deal?Late at night, I toss and I turn and I know this ship will sink
>>737433079Circana has access to the same data that /v/ does, which is to say a combination of Steam data, those 'best seller' lists on consoles, and cryptic information from our dreams.>>737433162>6th best selling game of the yearIt's possible when you remember the year has only been January, February, and March and fuck all else has come out.>>737433290I hope Tahnit and Travis are on suicide watch when that report lands.
the funniest shit is pajeet marketers coming here to larp as /v/ anons posting shit like "/v/sister our response?!"lmao go fuck your sister pajeet
If Marathon actually sold a million copies Bungie social media would have been stroking themselves off about it publicly
Now THIS is what a success looks like
>>737433481400K DISCORD MEMBERZ
>>737433481I think it definitely sold 1m, but Bungie learned from ACS that you don't make the 'we sold 1m,yay!' news post if you aren't confident you're on track to sell 2m/3m/4m.Because the moment you post about sales, but then go quiet, people will know 'Oh, they sold 1m but not 2m, lol'
>>7374295521.2 million is nowhere near what they need to sell to turn a profit
>>737430094If it doesn’t turn a profit or makes very little profit, it’s a flop. It has a LONG way to go to even turn a profit.
>>737432624>guarded more closely than your sister's cuntGenerous of you to assume she isn't the town bicycle already
>>737433539>Chud TassiYou lost, Marathon outsold CD chud
>>737430889It’s doing so great they already cut the price, kek
>>737433539r34 on that shell
>>737431131Bungie has fallen so damn far…
>>737432371A brand new game with a diminishing player count barely selling as much as a 10+ year old game is not a good thing….
>>737434038Bungie hasn't been Bungie for a decade at least. Those original devs are all gone and retired in 90% of cases.
>>737434167Anon, you're talking to a brainlet who probably couldn't understand how Steam's Top Sellers chart worked and made these same claims a month ago.
>>737428569Still not playing (buying) extraction copycat slop.
>>737430094You back hurts from bending over backwards to defend a failing game because you're either a paid shill or a deranged delusional fan.
Okay, let's be honest here. Why did marathon flop so hard?
>>737434276because the market trend is friend slopno one wants sweaty no life slop
>>737428569So the US has shit taste in games, or are we only getting shit games?
>>737434276normals/casuals/midcore gamers aren't interested in a second string extraction shooter that is geared toward player aggression rather than player communication. the visual language of marathon doesn't help, it looks both overdesigned and underdeveloped at the same time. it gives the impression that it is developed to please no one but freaks and streamers.
>>737434348how do you make marathon more casual and friendly
>>737434583you can't, at least not in a way that sony will actually pay for. this is why joe ziegler should have been fired yesterday. he made a game that is basically pointless to fix because almost everyone has made a decision about how to feel about it already.
>>737430980crazy he never replied to this uhh
>>737434276These three reasons, basically:>niche game type (extraction (hardcore) PVP)>no ability to reasonably play solo>challenging art styleIf Marathon cost 1/10th of what Bungie spent to make it, it would've been a financial success.
>>737428645>3 days period>both physical and digital sales>across all platorms>ranked on "dollar sales"could this be any gayer
>>737429502>>737429360Silly anon. You throw out bad data or deprioritize it all the time, like 400k discord members. I actually think Circana is correct here. OP of course is a bitch, a liar, and a lying bitch, and you'll see anons, possibly with puts on the line make blatantly wrong statements, and then pretend to be retards. And OP is of course completely lying about Sony's expectations, and what Circana said about sony's expectations. >>737429780Like this anon >Marathon surpassed Minecraft sales for 2026, that alone puts it at several million copies soldAnd then the pretending to be retarded phase. >source?>Tassi's source?Or this anon:>>737429879>it basically is at the topAt the AAAA level, it needs to be the undisputed top, and be there next month. Keep in mind for the budget of this game, you can fit Ghost of Yotei, Tears of the Kingdom, Helldivers 2 entire budget including the ongoing, and still have enough for pokpia.Or the anon who pretends that an anthem class flop is a victory, which is dumber than GCJ.>>737435845You could also lie about Sony's expectations like OP.>>737434583You make Destiny or halo.
Mbappé... It's over...
>>737439395S-STABLE 10K IS ENOUGH FOR MATCHES, CHUD!
>>737440075you tell him sis its time to blast!
>>737434583Make it also have co-op and solo PVE. That new barebones pirate jank game sold a million copies because people wanted to sail a ship with friends. Bungie used to be able to make good FPS games that had both PVE and PVP that appealed to a wide range of people. That bungie is obviously dead and buried these days
>>737440146Team Concord, blasting off again!
>>737440514In Bungie's (extremely limited) defense, Windrose has the benefit of being in a genre that is woefully underserved. Black Flag is 13 years old, Sea of Thieves isn't stellar and Ubisoft thought it was a great idea to make a game where your only combat is ship-based.Meanwhile Marathon's competing (very badly) with ARC, Tarkov, Hunt, Grey Zone and Delta Force, all very active as we speak.But yeah game needs a massive overhaul.
If it's selling so well... Why isn't anyone playing it?
>>737443724In all ways except commercial, Marathon is a success, chud.
>>737443724They're busy working and being a benefit to society unlike you, chud
>>737429419Steam is smaller than Xbox lil bro
>>737430848lmao eric melty
>>737428569There is the thing bozo.Even if Marathon was number 1 on the list, the real thing that matters is for how long it will keep players.And considering how quickly people are leaving, it's a matter of time till it all goes down.
>>737436024>Keep in mind for the budget of this game, you can fit Ghost of Yotei, Tears of the Kingdom, Helldivers 2 entire budget including the ongoing, and still have enough for pokpia.source?
>>737428569And it still is down 200 million USD
The fact that anyone still cites Circana is embarrassing. Ignoring all the other reasons why (that people have mentioned in this thread), the biggest reason you should stop listening to those faggots is that their entire business model is selling publishers what they want to hear. "Yes, Mr. Publisher, Black Samurai was a massive seller, and you too should substitute your successful franchise with DEI slop. No, you won't lose money! Promise!"
so, steam charts are trustworthy or nah?
>>737445554didnt see these posts when the PS5 was winning
>>737446631>didnt see these posts when the PS5 was winningthis thread is a mild Sony win for Marathon.
Why does this game invoke so much seething in both its haters and its defenders?
>>737444410The source on Marathon's budget is staff size (300 average) x dev time (5 years) x staff salaries ($150k/yr/per staff member). Those numbers haven't changed and the napkin math lines up with what Tassi heard from his people in Bungie about Marathon costing $250 to $300m in pure development costs, which doesn't include marketing, outsourcing, or daily operations. The total figure is probably close to $425m at least.>>737446589They're objective data from Valve, and marketers have been reeing about Valve needing to take them down for years. So, yes, they're valid.
>>737446786Bungie has a really long history with really popular but also divisive games, so combine that with the current GAAS meta and new Sony overlords, and you've got a perfect recipe for drama. Basically the ongoing narrative around Marathon has a wider audience than the game itself.
>>737446746>win
>>737428569>circana ranking KWABOOTY
>>737442518lmao i love these breads
>>737428569I am all in support of Bungie conning themselves into thinking Marathon is doing well solely so it cucks /dg/ even more
>>737434583The most cooperation Marathon will get without removing Arachne is Rook teamups. The game is themed as "kill on sight", as opposed to Arc Raiders, in which every player is a human survivor fighting against a greater evil.
>>737428569notice how bullshit manipulated chart thread gets to stay but actual user numbers on steam get you banned if you post themI AM NOTICING
>>737428569wrong
>>737428569reading comprehension is hard. It says for march.Its #6 best selling in US for the year so far. 3months into the year the biggest ip was resident evil.
>>737429360>dude trust us, it's only the numbers you can check yourself that are bad, all the secret numbers are greatok, I'll believe you
>>737429723Of 100%.
>>737430094Marathon is a flop because it was very expensive to make and made about 20% of its money back while bleeding players each day. You can go "no, this game that lost triple digit millions is totally not a huge flop, because that other game lost slightly more money", but I don't think that's gonna save it.
>>737439395That sale is really drawing in new players.
>>737452415It was a success in their minds, though. The shills and Bungie sycophants, I mean.>>737452461The sunday peak should tell the story about whether the sale did anything.
Anyone that had interest in the game has already purchased it. Especially with the sales. There's no excuses any more. There never was.The game is not appealing enough to attract big numbers.
>>737452906>Anyone that had interest in the game has already purchased it.I think the achievement stats told the same story the last time I checked, with shit like 'extract 10 times' still only having 60-65% earn rate across all Steam players.
>>737428569>>737428645>no actual $ numbers>just rankThis is bullshit.
