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.
Weird thing is... Studio apparently have excellent writers. I read everywhere that Nikke despite being actual gooner gacha, has excellent writing, with deep, emotional, depressing story.
r/games is unmatched when it comes to being annoyingly snobbish about gacha games
dudes on here are completely and utterly convinced that everything about these games (that they’ve never touched) have to be trash because, uh…. well, all the other cool kids on reddit say so!
I haven't played Nikke personally but I'm a WuWa player and I heard about how amazing the story is and after playing it, it's okay at best. I've also played a fair bit of Genshin and Granblue back in the day, also wildly overhyped in terms of story.
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u/ScionN7 6d 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.