Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026

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• Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Proof that gamers have no spine (once again. See also Switch 2 and PS5 sales) and that online discourse holds no prediction of real world value.

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• the_q@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Idiots will buy anything.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well…they won’t buy Concord.

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Concord was a brand new IP, this is an established popular IP. The brand recognition alone probably sells a million units.

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    • threeonefour@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lesson learned! You need a licenced character on the cover if you want idiots to buy it!

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    • Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn… even idiots know that game sucks.

      It must sting for the devs.

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  • ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idiots will pre-order anything.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This right here.

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  • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I mean sometimes you want to just zone out and play something dumb. You don’t get any gamer credibility but nothing wrong with having fun.

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  • dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doesn’t sound like it’s a bad game, it’s just not anything amazing

    I won a copy so I will play it one day

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How did you win it?

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• Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, because Sony released so many successful first party games in 2026…

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  • newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lol I had to double check because I couldn’t remember any.

    We got…

    • Marathon
    • Saros
    • MLB The Show 26
    • Marvel Tōken: fighting souls

    And this.

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• THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Seems like an alright $5 buy down the road.

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• rozodru@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  buddy of mine bought this and I went over to his place to play it. It’s boring. it holds your hand for everything and it’s impossible to fail QTEs so there’s just no point in doing them.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be honest, the only good quick time event is the one you don’t have to do.

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Flashbacks from Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy

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• ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This might be a lot but keep in mind the INSANE budget for this game so despite this it’s still nowhere near breaking even

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Even the insane funds, it looks like it was a complete failure.

    I suspect you may have seen the video of people going out of bounds in that one area? They were able to find larger portions of cities, small towns and so forth.

    It looks like the game was originally meant to be open world or closer to it, but probably due to constraints they bailed on that.

    I’m guessing that’s the source of a lot of people’s dislike.

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• jontree255@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What other exclusives did they release this year? Saros?

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They also put out Ghost of Yotei and Marathon (yikes).

    Marvel Tokon too if you count console exclusives that are also on PC.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Marathon. The best gamenmost people will never play.

      It really is very good.

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    • Desischnix@fedinsfw.app ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Marathon is not an exclusive.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The masses of non passionate gamers don’t care the public perception or what the press has to say about a game. Especially so with popular franchises, see Pokemon, FIFA and Call of Duty as an example.

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• Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just barely eking out heavy hitters like Marathon, Marvel Tokon or God of War Sons of Sparta.

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