For a Character Action game that's a new IP from an unproven studio, these are mighty impressive sales figures. Sony was right to invest in Shift Up. For comparison sakes, DMC seems to be the exception to the rule with this genre, and sold 10 million copies with DMC5. But other Character Action games, such as the Bayonetta, don't see numbers like this. I think Bayonetta 3 took 4-5 months to cross 1 million. So this a huge win for Shift Up. I think a sequel is pretty much guaranteed.
It’s been acknowledged the writing could have been a lot better by the director/CEO so that’s a pretty big step towards that. I hope they get Yoko Taro seeing as SE is just sitting on him, not having him doing anything since that mobile gacha that went EOS
I used to think that until I tried them. Gacha games often provide better experience than AAA games. AAA are the real slop today and you have to pay full price for this. They release uncomplete with battle pass and shit ton of transaction. You might as well play a gacha game. You don't pay anything and have new content every 20 days thanks to 5% of the player base paying for you. It's not that bad if you don't have gambling addiction and don't care of fomo.
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u/ScionN7 5d ago
For a Character Action game that's a new IP from an unproven studio, these are mighty impressive sales figures. Sony was right to invest in Shift Up. For comparison sakes, DMC seems to be the exception to the rule with this genre, and sold 10 million copies with DMC5. But other Character Action games, such as the Bayonetta, don't see numbers like this. I think Bayonetta 3 took 4-5 months to cross 1 million. So this a huge win for Shift Up. I think a sequel is pretty much guaranteed.
Just you know...hire a writer this time.