More so now that €79.99 is becoming a thing. I can count the number of games I’ve bought full-price at launch over the past ten years on one hand though. just speaking for me personally as a developer, I don’t work for Sony, I don’t know what the numbers are. “It’s like, God of War got whatever number millions of sales at launch and, you know, Days Gone didn’t. “I’m just saying, you don’t, but don’t complain if a game doesn’t get a sequel if it wasn’t supported at launch,” Garvin replied. “But how do you know you love a game until you’ve played it?” Jaffe responded.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen gamers say ‘yeah, I got that on sale, I got it through PS Plus, whatever’.”
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“If you love a game, buy it at fucking full price.
“I do have an opinion on something that your audience may find of interest, and it might piss some of them off,” Garvin replied.
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John Garvin was speaking to game designer David Jaffe on Jaffe’s YouTube show, where he was asked if he’d heard anything about any “meaningful uptick of engagement” with Days Gone since the game was added to the PlayStation Plus Collection on PS5.
No they aren’t working on Days Gone 2, but they are pushing ahead with a new IP that can hopefully meet both sales figures and garner more critical acclaim.The creative director and writer of Days Gone has said that players should buy games at full price if they like them, instead of waiting for them to go on sale or be given away as part of services like PlayStation Plus. The good news, as was revealed last year, is that Sony Bend is able to continue on. Priorities can also have changed in the games Sony execs want to produce, and while Days Gone was developed under Jack Tretton and Shawn Layden’s leadership, incoming boss Hermen Hulst could have wanted to push for more standout and unique feeling games. Ghost of Tsushima has held a premium price for longer, especially when accounting for the enhanced PS5 release that helped fill some gaps in the 2021 lineup after upcoming games were delayed. For example, not every one of those 8 million sales is going to be equal once factoring discounts. While it might seem like and apples to apples comparison, there’s a lot more that Sony is able to consider. We had to do all that from scratch, and we made the game in 6-7 years, depending on how you measure.” “ worked on for 6-7 years, and had an open world engine, and a team who understood open world. In the here and now, Ross noted that they actually had a comparable development period to Ghost of Tsushima. The other suspicion is that Days Gone suffered from a protracted development cycle and a few public delays, all of which will have expanded the game’s budget – Ross previously admitted that the budget ballooned. You gotta crawl before you can walk, and walk before you can run.” Further reading: Does Days Gone deserve a sequel after all? Even the first Killzone got a 70 on metacritic, but the sequel roared back with a 91. “I was planning on building on top of the original for a kick-ass sequel. In follow up tweets to commenters, Ross drew upon other games from Sony’s library in response to other tweets, mentioning that not every Sony franchise started with universal acclaim, when compared to Days Gone’s 71 Metacritic score. While the decision making at Sony not to greenlight a sequel has never really been clarified from their side of things – except that Bend is now working on a new IP – it certainly feels that Days Gone’s critical reception factored in. Local studio management always made us feel like it was a big disappointment.” He added that it “Definitely didn’t generate God of War numbers, but neither did Ghost… or Death Stranding,” It’s since gone on to sell more, and then a million+ on Steam. “At the time I left Sony,” he tweeted, “Days Gone had been out for a year and a half (and a month), and sold over 8 million copies.
It seems there’s still some bitterness about this as Ross took to Twitter. Sony Bend pitched a sequel in 2019, but this was shot down by Sony and eventually led to a bit of fallout as he and fellow game director John Garvin departed at the end of 2020. However, Days Gone while sold a similar figure in its first 19 months, the general response to the open world zombie game was more muted – we scored it 6/10.
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Ross was tweeting in reaction to the new that Ghost of Tsushima had sold over 8 million copies, and is widely seen as a success story thanks to continued interest in the game, the PS5 upgrade and Iki Island expansion, and positive critical reaction.
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