You say "obviously" first party could refer to Sony or Nintendo, but that is 100% wrong. It is obviously only referring to MS because Sony and Nintendo are not first party when Microsoft speak about first party.
It's not really comparable because we're talking about Game Pass, not XBL Gold.
It probably won't since it's an always online, online only game that has been pushing game pass, so buying digital makes sense. We're already seeing 50%+ digital adoption for regular games, I'd wager this game will have a much higher percentage.
Sorry, I was referring to the debate about how many units have been sold. Most companies post a figure like all the MHW updates we keep getting. MS has left this info out and it's inspiring a lot of debate and math equations
NPD tracks digital sales, however SoT isn't charting number 1 with the release of Far Cry 5 and MLB The Show 18 releasing this month.
Oh right they track MS digital now, my bad. Game pass would absolutely make charting high difficult too though.
That's honestly pretty good for a new release pushing 2 weeks old.
Considering the direction that MS is going in, I'd say it doesn't matter.
You talking about the selling part or the 2m players?
This will not happend untill MS has some good numbers to show, till then we will only get these vauge pr spins.
Now we're using twitch viewership to try and discredit the game? Lol
Or the other person paid money and subscribed to game pass. Even if they got the free trial, if they like the game they'll either buy it or continue subscribing.
MS don't do sales numbers anymore, period. They didn't do sales numbers when halo 5 sold gangbusters. They didn't do sales numbers when Forza sold gangbusters. They haven't done sales numbers when Sea of thieves did great numbers. MAU, as much as people around here try to laugh about them, are the most important metric for services. It's what almost every service company reports. Sony have now even publicly acknowledged that MAU are more relevant and have started reporting MAU.
How on earth do you think you know that anyway? And why do you think that's something that they need to tell you?
MS would know based on unique players, actual sales and game pass subscriptions. As for joe public.....you probably wont unless it charts high.
Sony and Nintendo which both are platform holders give sales numbers of games and consoles every year, MS is the only one which is being very secretive regarding them.
I'm a consumer and I'm fine with the subscription, I think it's great. I can either pay like $250 every time they release a new version of office just for office, just for myself or I can pay $10 a month and get office on 5 computers that I am allowed to share with friends and family, along with 1TB of OneDrive storage each. I split that $10 a month with 2 other people as well, they each give me $25 a year for it. It works for me, and I much prefer it to buying a new version every other year.
Another crusade post that have to sound like "everything Ms touch is poisoned" right? .....))
That doesn't sound like a very good drop, how do we know it's pretty good compared to other high profile releases? Is there a chart or database available?
I mean, gamers don't need to know anything, sales numbers are just commonly released info from almost all publishers and console makers, people are used to it.
Yep, They also said Ori made profit in only a matter of a week and we got Cuphead numbers as well (not a MS IP I know but still), there is a pattern for sure, I'm not saying it's bad that they are doing this (Sony does it too for some titles that don't do good), being more open would be good though.
The Ori dev said that tho on the other forum. Not MS i believe.
Reviews came after release for this title, they can affect sales for sure but that's in the long run.
