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Group #3 is now being used as the scapegoat for not buying enough Ghost of Yotei physical discs to keep up with the Roblox kiddies and annual sports/COD crowd.
Playstation released a small catalog of questionable single-player exclusives this generation. Then they killed physical entirely when group #3 understandably refused to buy their overpriced trash. Now group #3 is currently being gaslit into believing that they collectively chose to kill physical.
I am so sorry but I have to be blunt here: they brought this upon themselves
For years I called out Snoy for being complete dipshits and they better off abandoning ship and go to Steam , Nintendo or whatever if they care about single player games because there’s nothing here. But “no” they said “you are trolling”
1) The diehard annual sports and COD crowd. These franchises are treated as disposable. Multiplayer on the sports games shuts down a year or two after release (I don't know about COD). Physical copies have no resale value. There's not much incentive to buy physical, especially if you own a digital-only PS5.
They don't fall off as quickly as the sports games do but.. and just going by gamestop prices for which they'll likely give you a whopping 10% of what they'll sell it for yet retarded consoomers have refused to let this business fucking die(I need my resale value so I can sell it to gamestop for $2.50 and they sell it for $25 bullshit)
Black Ops 7(current game) $45
Black Ops 6 $25
Modern Warfare 3 $30
Modern Warfare 2 $20
Vanguard $10
That's all PS5 pricing. For some reason the ps4 versions of madden go for more? Maybe because they're rarer or something? I don't know. CoD's value falls off but nowhere near as quickly as sports games, even if the next Madden and CoD are due out in a few months.
You've also forgotten another aspect of these games, and the consoomers that buy them. "pre-loading". Even though it's been stated for years to stop fucking preordering games, especially digital purchases of games, people continue to do it. But now, they can do their digital preorder, and a couple days in advance download the 150GB game and it's day 1 patch, and have it be playable at 12:01am launch day. Rather than lining up at Gamestop or wherever for midnight releases, then having to still drive home, install the game, and download a giant patch before being able to play.
Gamestop actually did a midnight release for black ops 7.
yeah i remember when midnight releases were HUGE for call of duty. i actually worked the gamestop midnight release and only 2 people came... & there were tons of people lined up with tents, blankets, lawn chairs, etc. waiting for the 10am release of pokemon phantasmal flames card expansion. mind you, one of those who came for the midnight release came to overnight for pokemon cards, just decided to get cod and the midnight release tote bag lol. so just one person showed up specifically for black ops 7 midnight release.
Sure it's an anecdote, but more people lining up for pokemon cards, and only 1 person actually showed up just for the midnight release of black ops 7 at their store.
This midnight release only seems to have been much of a thing because the youtube guy treated it like a meetup or something?
5 people
10 people, with more camping for a 10am release of pokemon cards
Now compare that shit to Black Ops 2 midnight release back in 2012
Clearly there has been a massive shift in buying habits, and it isn't like CoD is suddenly not selling anymore. And it's not just CoD either. You can find midnight release videos for Madden '12 and '13 with again tons of people lined up and madden still sells and rakes in a bunch of money thanks to microtransactions.
Think about it. You're FromSoft, you've got other IPs to work on that don't involve Sony, and it's a safe bet that if you do use the IP that you're married to Sony with, Hermen Hulst if going to fuck you any way he can.
Makes sense, though in fairness they've had plenty of earlier opportunities to remaster/port the game prior to Sony's public exhibitions of retardation. Though of course you're completely right that they might have had internal indications earlier than that of Sony's mental decline. What was that old chestnut from a reasonably-sane developer? Something like "a game launched in bad shape will always be bad, while a game launched late will only be late once"? Maybe they're waiting out the contract clock knowing a late delivery is better than a shitty one.
Damn ... I haven't seen a good midnight launch party in like ... two decades. Why are they still bothering? That shit was great back in the early 2000's, you had tents, fuckin' grills and cookouts, people made it into a god damn party. Hell, the decent store managers handed out water to make sure nobody passed out. Made it real fun and made sure people left happy.
Sigh... they don't do it like they used to . A 5-man turnout? I'd write to corporate and say "lol fuck you no, I'm not paying my staff to rot for hours after normal closing hours to sell a no-margin product to five people, this is bullshit."
Damn ... I haven't seen a good midnight launch party in like ... two decades. Why are they still bothering? That shit was great back in the early 2000's, you had tents, fuckin' grills and cookouts, people made it into a god damn party. Hell, the decent store managers handed out water to make sure nobody passed out. Made it real fun and made sure people left happy.
Sigh... they don't do it like they used to . A 5-man turnout? I'd write to corporate and say "lol fuck you no, I'm not paying my staff to rot for hours after normal closing hours to sell a no-margin product to five people, this is bullshit."
Absolutely. People want to say that physical media is still popular, I'd beg to differ with that. And remember, it wasn't just Madden and CoD that got midnight releases. Pokemon games, WoW expansions, Halo, Skyrim, Destiny, God of War 3, Gears of War, etc. You can find videos of all kinds of this shit from 2010-2015 and the lower turnout games would only have dozens of people and that's still more than modern Call of Duty. And it isn't like Gamestop didn't announce they were doing a midnight release for black ops 7, they did announce it.
Here's a midnight release for black ops 6, that looks like it had a whole 10 people in line
Compare it with the original modern warfare 2 release
I'm not saying I agree with Sony dropping physical sales. But clearly there's been a huge and obvious shift.
. A 5-man turnout? I'd write to corporate and say "lol fuck you no, I'm not paying my staff to rot for hours after normal closing hours to sell a no-margin product to five people, this is bullshit."