>AlineaAnalytics (a crypto scam firm) approximates Saros sales around 300k>They are usually way off from the real numbers and favor Sony when possible>If they report 300k copies it must be closer to 100k>There’s info supporting this claim such as the game ranking 11 in US, 17 in EU, not even ranking in Asia and selling 2000 copies in Spain (digital counted)Go woke, go broke
>>738787051SAARS, OUR RESPONSE???
>>738787051Thank you for continuing to advertise this game for them free of charge.
>>738787243Do you actually think that peoplecwill see post dragging that piece of shit and buybit, on fucking /v/ ?
>>738787051Genuinely don't even care enough to shit on the game.
Go PS5 exclusive, your sales loss is conclusive
>>738787051when are we going to get single player games again that are actually aimed at straight men instead of the same feminist proganda over and over again
>>738787354>phone keyboard typos This is nu-/v/.
Having played and completed it, I think it’s a pretty good game. Genuinely feel most people would be put off with the Indian MC because they’re racist or they played Returnal and think it’s gonna be just as difficult.
>>738789275I don't wanna play as a Saaaros and I don't wanna support a game that pushes dyke shit on to society. Simple as.
>>738787051300k is pretty bad.
>>738789275I'm put off because I played Returnal and thought it was easy so I'm not buying Saros because it's less difficult. I want my sequels to be harder.
>>738789518It does have the option to make it harder but as in Returnal, if you get an OP build it just becomes a cakewalk.
>>738787603i think for a long time it was assumed men would focus on the cool gun/sword and ignore the story so you could go full blown pozz on the story with no downsides, gamers seem a bit smarter than tv viewers and noticed it more
>>738789798Yeah, I heard that it becomes very easy even with the sliders maxed but I prefer games that have 1 standard difficulty where everyone has a shared experience. I like it when I'm playing the intended experience that the devs came up with.
>>738789518>>738789798>Buying and supporting pozzed shitYou'll never make it.
>>738789275I'm not racist. I don't consider Indians to be even human. I have no problem with Whites or Blacks or other kinds of Asians
we must be stinkier men
I'm appreciate that I'm fucking moron who doesn't understand how sales are actually calculated, or how well or poorly things truly sell, but doesn't even 300,000 copies sound too high an estimate?
>>738790353To be honest, it doesn't matter if it was even double that. They spent 70+ million on that game.Even if it was double, it'd still be a flop. Even if it sold three times that amount, it'd be a flop. Most studios consider it a win if they get 50% more than how much they invested.They're not even close to that number.
>>738790353very antisemitic of you to wonder how pozz slop stays funded
>>738787243>nyooo don't make fun of meAfter /v/ posts saved Concord and Highguard they will now turn SaarOS into a smash hit.
>>738790353You have an icecream stand. Maintaining the ice cream stand costs $5 per month. You are retarded.
>>738787051does Playstation produce anything that's NOT a flop at this point?
Play the jeetDrown in the sheete (sales)
>>738787051>pulling back on PC support limiting reach and word of mouth>Indian MC (easily most hated racial group globally) limiting appeal>have barely seen marketing for the game>flopsWho could've seen this coming? Why does Sony even bother having studios? They should just coast on the cuts from Fortnite, CoD, and annual sportsball releases.
>>738790353It likely is too high an estimate. Alinea is notorious for estimating too high and having to adjust down when the actual figures get released. Also they are deceptive in their language precisely because they don't actually have any good numbers. Notice they say, "22M in all revenues." That means they are including the 30% store front cut as part of the revenue, but that revenue never reaches Sony because it is deducted at the store front. That means, for Sony at least, unless 100% of the sales were through the Playstation store, the actual revenue is lower. But Alinea doesn't actually know how much was sold, much less how much were sold in Sony store fronts not 100% owned and controlled by Sony.So, not only is the number of sales likely lower, meaning the revenue is lower, but the actual revenue going to Sony is some percentage lower as well. And revenue is not profit, it is just gross income before deducting any expenses.
>>738787051If that's anywhere close to accurate, it's a goddamn shame. The game is amazing and there's nothing else that plays like this and Returnal out there.Gamers always talking about wanting more unique games, gameplay first, etc but can't put their money where their mouth is. Please support Housemarque if you can afford to, people. I'd be devastated if they had to shut down, they're one of the best out there.Fantastic reviews, best shooter gameplay on the market, beautiful art direction, and still bombs. I hate this industry sometimes.
It's over.
>>738793723What's really funny is that if Saaros was a live service game it would have gotten much more marketing. The live service parasitical brain rot is deep in the Sony executives' brains right now. Fucking Horizon online or whatever that shit is has gotten more marketing, and absolutely no one wants that shit.
>>738787298because you refuse to stay in your stinking holes.
>>738787051They should have invested more into astroturfing on /v/ like Crapcom does
>>738794229>>738787051>this streetshitter expects me to believe this has 300k players which is more than marathonIn what universe?
>>738787298Nta, but I won't stop ridiculing you until you stop posting aqua poojeet. It's that simple
>>738789275I actually loved returnal, have a ps5 pro will not buy it because of the indian
>>738794205Saaaaar
>>738790007max sliders is actually extremely hard, I doubt you would even make it against the first boss let alone the final mission. (source: I spent longer beating the last mission at max diff than all the the rest of the game)
>>738790657>They spent 70+ million on that game.Seems like way more than it really was. Housemarque is a Finnish company with around 100 employees; In comparison another Finnish game, Remedy's Alan Wake 2, was around 50 million euros (58M USD) and they had Ebin Games funding it.
>>738794621>sales = players
>>738787051I shan't redeem the Saaros, saars.
>>738787243>Don’t worry, saars!>the free advertisement on the indian street food forums will save our game!
>>738789275On the contrary. I thought plot is more insulting than shit that even pol is coming out with. His relationship with Sebastian, and then getting kekolded by the black woman with his wife? >>738790353AlineaAnalytics tends to aim high. Just treat it as a rough estimate.
>>738794621How are you this retarded? Third worlders can use you as an example to feel good about themselves.
>>738795401>they had Ebin Games funding it.I hope you are not one of those people who think that "funding something" means that you're a charity.
Housemarque makes good games (super stardust hd, resogun, nex machina, etc.) but they shoot themselves in the foot by some stupid decisions with these new games. No one wants to play as a hag or a cuckold saar
>>738793550Helldivers 2. Ghost of Yotei made a small profit because it was super strict on budget. Unfortunately Marathon is bomb of the year.>>738793723They actually spent a normal AAA ad spend on this game.>>738794494Do you really think the only difference between Pragmata's audience appeal and this game is astroturf?Just hear me out, if they're spending summer blockbuster money on the games budget, make shit that the general audience likes instead of the equivalent of exotic oscar bait? Sony spends hundereds of millions of fucking dollars on market research. They know better.
>>738787051Why don' Sony fans buy games??
>>738787051based! hope this, concord and marathon fiasco serves as lessons to devs to never let Sony buy their studios.
>>738795401The budget estimate is from Housemarque's CEO himself in an interview. The idea from Sony was to go Hollywood on actors and presentation, combine it with Returnal's gameplay. It's double the budget for about the same sales.
>>738789275I'm so sick of interacting with indian tech support during my work. Every tech product support are indian.
>>738798985The devs don't get a say, and Marathon's boss bought a half dozen classic cars with jsut the employee retention bonus.
>>738787354Could you repeat that in English, Vanya?
>>738798880Playstation didn't make HD2, they just helped fund it. They don't own Arrowhead.I think every first party game Sony has made from the start of 2025 to today has been a net loss except for Yotei, and then only just.
>>738787051TOTAL EXCLUSIVE DEATH
>>738798585>saar we have 300k players trust us!!!
This is what happens when you abandon the master race, Sony. You abandon the master race, gamers abandon you.
>>738799224Correct. Sony is the producer on the game, not the developer. But Sony dev games are looking fucking dire. Their annual report listed only the massive failure of Bungie. Aside from GOY, I think MLB the show is going to make money and that's about it.
SAARSOS
>>738799820If you look at the financial report, it's clear that Sony makes it money from being a store and taking a little bit of each game sold, like Valve. I would bet Sony doesn't care how much a game sells so much as they want it to be a way that gets people onto PSN and spending money. Like this>game costs $50>one anon buys it and three anons don't>on the surface, Sony only made $50 out of a potential $400 (1 sale out of four)>but the anon who bought it stays on PSN and buys future games there instead of Steam or on third party sites>and maybe he even gets a PSN account >over the next few years, Sony makes $500 off of that one guy because he pays for PSN, buys skins, maybe buys other games, and other shitIt's a long term play. Sony could give a fuck about Saaaros selling units this month, but they do care about how much or how little these games get people into their store.Apple and most tech companies work the same way, everyone wants their own walled garden.
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>>738799013>The idea from Sony was to go Hollywood on actors and presentationFucking what? It really doesn’t look much better, and actors are probably the absolute worst return on investment.
>>738800376That's what Sony is currently making their money on, but it's not like they're TRYING to have their first parties be loss leaders. They're just being miserable fucking failures. It's their difference makers for choosing PS over xbox. And they would love to have a big, first party movie game success that they can turn into a TV series or movie for their other division.
>>738800470It's what they tried. Doesn't mean it was a good idea or successful. Apparently the indian dude they picked is some sort of actual actor. They spent a lot of fucking money on hollywood writers and actors.
>>738800597Definitely Sony would prefer these games to be commercial successes and probably doesn't fund them knowing they're going to flop like this. Sony can get away with a lot right now in the console space because their main competitor, Xbox, committed sudoku last year and isn't a threat anymore, and Nintendo hasn't been a direct competitor for more than a decade. (Nintendo doesn't try to fight Sony for AAA dominance, I'm saying.)The problems in Sony's dev studios are the same ones in all the western studios, which is why games from China/SK are mogging western ones from pozzed studios. Until Sony fixes that (which they won't, because they're californian and don't consider this woke trash to be a problem), they'll keep releasing Saaroses, Marathons, and Fairgame$s.
>>738787603Starfield is the best selling game on the PS5 last month next to Pragmata and Crimson desert because it's a single player game that directly panders to straight white men. Times are changing.
>>738801132>Saarfield>panders to straight white menHow? Every clip I've seen of the game has you walking around in Space Mogadishu surrounded by the ugliest creaturas in known space
>>738801132there’s no white people in starfield
>>738800810>(Nintendo doesn't try to fight Sony for AAA dominance, I'm saying.)Nintendo strategy is on the long term, focusing on these aspects:> huge install base>1st party games that are top tier quality, focused on popularity or both>major indie support >major 3rd party support.They already got 3 of those during the Switch era and its slowly, but surely creeping up on 3rs party support.Japan is a done deal for Sony. US and Europe market is mainly sports based game or COD/Battlefield. The moment EA decides to make 60FPS games on the Switch 2, its GG for Sony.Leaving only online games, which is dominated by Steam.Their only hope to survive for now is EA and GTA6. That's it. They killed their 1st party output and even if they decide to focus on Astro Bot or old japanese franchises, that userbase is long gone.
>>738801612I think Sony makes most of its gaming money through CoD and Fortnite store fees, with sports in a close third. 'Gun and ball' consoleniggers are the biggest group that spend money and always have been since the 360 era.GTA6 is going to be big enough to carry Sony for years because PS5 is going to be the main place to play it. The only thing that would change this is Valve did some secret billion dollar deal with Rockstar to launch GTA6 on Gabecube as an exclusive (because it just works on SteamOS, not on Windows or something) that launches at the same time as the console version. 99% chance that won't happen, but it would be a huge dick punch to Sony if it did. And could you imagine the shit storm? The board would be unusable for a month at least.
>>738787051>PS5 Exclusive>pajeet game for pajeet >MASSIVE FLOPSAAAAARRRRRRS
>>738799085Why are people so retarded? The guy sold his company. Which means he traded his company for money. Which means that the company is no longer his, but the money is.The faggots who think the guy should use the money, that is now his, to fund the company that now belongs to Sony have a boot so deep down their throat that it cut off the air supply to their brains.
>>738801872>And could you imagine the shit storm? The board would be unusable for a month at least.I want it. lmao
>>738801132>me seeing the last beth-fanboy going from thread to thread with his Starfield is for white people cope Sad. Also very insulting to white people.
>>738803427So do I, and I want it to be a surprise that only gets announced a month before launch, which is when the Gabecube goes on sale.
Returnal is honestly top 5 in the decade it was releasedSaaros is a waste
They thought the pajeet audience would be jumping to get this game. But forgot that most of them are shitting in the streets and don’t own a PS5. For normal people, seeing a pajeet on the cover in 2026 is an instant no-buy.
>>738794205I'm waiting for a sale im not dropping 70 on this
>>738787243>Thank you for continuing to advertise our game free of charge.
>>738805476is it really $70? thats fucked
>>738794205I don't know if this is ironic or not but I'll bite.It doesn't matter how is the gameplay if the artstyle and characters are not unique/attractive.The main character is literally an Indian dude ( which statistically is the least attractive of all races) and the art is generic as fuck. Same deal with Marathon, nothing attractive.Graphics and artstyle come first in a videogame, it has to look interesting before playing well.Mixtape graphics are unique and is selling a lot, despite having literally no gameplay.Pragmata is a new game, generic graphics but cute main character, sold millions.New Starfox has the same gameplay of a game that launched in 1997 and the only new thing is a new coat of paint with VERY distinctive characters, yet is already top seller in preorders.
