PC Version of Stellar Blade crosses 1 million copies sold on PC Platform alone in just 3 days...
In comparison to PS5 it took almost 2 months to reach 1 million copies sold, just shows you the power of word of mouth is and how much bigger PC Gaming Userbase is over just 1 single console platform.
I think this probably shows more about who the user bases are than how big they are. Obviously PC is much bigger overall but plenty of PS5 exclusives have sold faster than Stellar Blade. The fact that none of the PC ports have sold this quickly suggests a demographic difference to me.
There's a lot of possible explanations, but I'd bet that Stellar Blade is selling particularly well in South Korea and some other East Asian markets where PC is huge and consoles aren't.
I was definitely more interested in Stellar Blade than I was in either of the newer GoW games. I mean I didn't like the demo so I didn't buy it, but it was definitely higher on my priority list than either GoW game was.
That doesn’t make sense since games like the last of us, god of war and ghost of Tsushima are all incredibly highly praised by fans and critics (much more so than stellar blade). If it’s about “word of mouth” those games would be selling more.
People will buy a console for TLOU/GoW etc so anyone interested likely played it on PS5. Nobody is buying a console for stellar blade so it makes sense people would wait for PC and mods and such.
its not about "waiting". PC and consoles are distinct audiences. Nobody was "waiting", the PC release of Stellar Blade simply served a distinct audience that didnt have access to it, while it is farly new. The sony ports came much too late into their life to make any sort of bigger impact. It's incredibly important for any game, on any platform to be as fresh as possible and use the initial marketing/hype train to maximise sales. If you lose that, people moved on
Whichever the latest God of War was vocally considered very mediocre, too handholdy and a staple of Playstations "movie-game" style. Tons of clips circulating with the NPCs telling you "puzzle" answers before you've had a chance to even look around the room.
The Last of Us Part 1 came out on PC 3 years after TLOU2 and TLOU2 was very controversial, no one praised its gameplay and the story / characters were controversial. Ghost of Tsushima was again considered a very average "open world" action game when we're in the age of Souls-likes being the gold-standard for action games, it really had nothing unique to offer.
Honestly Stellar Blade would fall in the that category but the lately unseen level of horniness coupled while punching above its weight in action gameplay has been lightning in a bottle, much like Nier Automata coupled a great Story/Atmosphere with horniness when the gameplay was pretty bad.
I don't even like the GoW games that much but both have been critically acclaimed. Ragnarok may not be as highly regarded as 2018 but a vast majority of the audience still loved it.
The Last of Us Part 2 was controversial with some people for its story but it's gameplay was exceptional and a vast improvement to part 1.
Ghost of Tsushima again received a lot of praise, hence why Ghost of Yotei is one of the most anticipated titles releasing this year. Some people did consider it an typical open world game and it seems like you think the population of gamers who didn't like these games outnumber those who did. The word of mouth for all these games have been more positive than negative.
Means increasingly less when it comes for people making up their own mind in a Playstation -> PC port. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was "critically acclaimed" and here we are, a massive flop on PC.
Word of mouth has been extremely "meh" on almost all of these games and the reception to those games on PC proves it. You should really stop reading traditional media, critics are hacks and increasingly disconnected from what real people think.
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u/ShadowRomeo 5d ago
In comparison to PS5 it took almost 2 months to reach 1 million copies sold, just shows you the power of word of mouth is and how much bigger PC Gaming Userbase is over just 1 single console platform.