I think DS remake and CP both flopped

[Spiffington]

Peak CP players 22000, peak DSR players 30,000. Not that big of a difference. Even though DSR gets great reviews it's pretty much the same game so lots of people will pass on the remake. A sad time for action horror.

Edit I was wrong it's only 15000 peak CP players. Make of this what you will

[Khanjima]

Alright but in the end one still surpassed the other so

[Seraphiel]

Maybe? We wont know until we see the sales figures.

Callisto was a far worse game though. This remake is a 7/10 while Callisto was a 3/10.

[Orion Invictus]

CP2077 had an all-time peak of over 830k players. Are you feeling alright, OP?

EDIT: Yes, I know. Scroll down a bit.

[Smetrix]

It’s sold on Consoles too lol… Steam is not the only place games are sold, the EA store is also another place.

Also, given that DS has overall positive reviews, and the last time I checked, Costello still has mixed reviews, I’d say that DS is far from being a “flop” lol.

[Khanjima]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

CP2077 had an all-time peak of over 830k players. Are you feeling alright, OP?

He's talking about Callisto Protocol

[Laughing With Salad]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

CP2077 had an all-time peak of over 830k players. Are you feeling alright, OP?

dude

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Doomulus:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

CP2077 had an all-time peak of over 830k players. Are you feeling alright, OP?

He's talking about Callisto Protocol

Well, now I feel stupid, lol.

That game honestly escaped my mind completely after I saw what it was like.

[koimeiji]

"there was only 30,000 people playing at a single time on steam therefor the game is a flop!"

what?

[Ting]

Probably about all you can hope to get with this IP. Fortunately, it's clear that DSR cost much less to make than CP, so Motive/EA will probably still make money here whereas Striking Distance's Callisto Protocol cost 160 million to make and won't likely break even for another 2 years.

[TheRacknker]

My brother in christ. its a remake ofc it would not sell that much as most people got their fun out of it in the past 14 years

[Traumaturgy]

I dont like wokeness, but i still bought this game on PS5, and i think that there are not a lot of people who will not buy game just because of it.

More obvious reasons for me are: horror sf genre is quite niche, game was released in January (and best sales ares in December before Christmas), and a lot of people who didnt like CP were worried DSR would also suck.
Also people who played original DS- maybe they decided that 70$ for remake of old game is just too much. I bought it because i had discount coupon, without it i would also wait for at least 50% sale.

[Ting]

I guarantee all of .001% of the people who bought this game were aware of the woke stuff added. It didn't play a role in success or failure.

[Gracey Face]

A thing to keep in mind is that because a remake skips half of the development process (namely conceptual and iteration) a remake is cheaper to produce (it's part of why they're so popular). So even if the DSR does end up selling the exact same as TCP (I hate it when people just put CP. CP is a different and much worse thing) it might still be a financial success.

No way to know this early in.

[Doktor Mandrake]

The cope and seethe on display is incredible

[Soren]

Originally posted by Spiffington:

Peak CP players 22000, peak DSR players 30,000. Not that big of a difference. Even though DSR gets great reviews it's pretty much the same game so lots of people will pass on the remake. A sad time for action horror.

I don't know where you're getting the 22k peak players on The Callisto Protocol. Steam charts says 15k. Which is half of the Dead Space remake. Oh, and TCP dropped off insanely quickly too.

The Callisto Protocol's budget was something like 161 million dollars to make. They say they needed about twice the sales to even be able to recoup costs long term. In comes the Dead Space Remake. It's steam numbers are twice as large. It's topping the physical sales charts in the UK too. The budget isn't anywhere near the 161 million to make DSR because EA does not trust the franchise to pull in that much.

I'm willing to bet the Dead Space remake was quite financially successful from all the numbers we have on top of it's critical success. I don't think there will be any caveat to calling the game a flop in the long term.