Did the game sell well yet?

[Smeagoleyes]

Did the game sell 10 million copies yet?

[Smeagoleyes]

Originally posted by Viper:

Originally posted by Smeagoleyes:

I don't assume 1 million is not 10 million, until they provide new numbers, this is the fact we all know, is that it just sold 1 million copies.

Yet you think they stopped selling the game after 3 days. Obviously the number is much much higher at this point. And when they release those numbers you will finally be shut up.

Not shutting up at all unless it's 10 million.

[Kaczor24]

inb4 he gets banned, like usually he does for spam rage bait posts

[Viper]

Originally posted by Smeagoleyes:

Originally posted by Viper:

Yet you think they stopped selling the game after 3 days. Obviously the number is much much higher at this point. And when they release those numbers you will finally be shut up.

Not shutting up at all unless it's 10 million.

Trolls usually don't. Nobody is expecting that and the game is very successful. Your opinion on it changes nothing. Why do you troll games exactly. I don't get it. You gain nothing.

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by Harry:

Why do fans of the demake keep moving the goalpost? Those numbers are really bad.

The opposite is happening, and your post here is one such example.

Fans of establishing a narrative that the game is doing "really bad" keep moving the goal posts after ignoring any posts that could poke holes in their tiny little argument. We all know why. The point isn't the have a good faith discussion, so defending their own argument becomes irrelevant. The point is to flood the forums out of pathetic little desperation to try and establish self-created narratives.

Why are some of you insecure and scared of the thought of... *check notes* a game selling well or being well received by the players?

What a strange way to spend time; spamming a forum for a game you don't even like with arguments that hold no water.

Originally posted by Harry:

Alan Wake 2 is widely regarded as a flop, and this Silent Hill 2 is putting up similar numbers. In comparison, Elden Ring sold 1200% more than this game did in its first month.

Translation, "everything that sells less than Alan Wake II did is a failure because that game was a failure with how many it sold".

If only sales totals didn't exist in a vacuum and there was some other important variable here.

I asked anyone, anyone at all... to present the number that it cost Konami to develop and market this, the amount of profit it's made thus far, and the number of expected profits Konami ultimately expected. Unsurprisingly, it's been crickets.

Waiting for that number. Any day now.

Originally posted by Harry:

I fundamentally disagree. This Bloober Team Silent Hill is an action-horror game. Compare it to Resident Evil 2 remake, which sold 300% more than this in its first week.

Wait, how much did Resident Evil 2 sell in its first week? Are you saying it was three million? If so, you're sort of making Silent Hill 2 sound pretty good here...

Silent Hill 2 sold 1 million in three days, not one week, so it was higher than that by a week (how much higher, we don't know). That potentially moves the ratio from "a third of the sales" to "perhaps between two fifths and one half of the sales"? As much as Resident Evil 2 sold in a week, no, of course not. Since when did "it did worse than the absolute Gold standard for modern remakes" constitute failure though? That's an interesting perspective, to say the least.

So if Silent Hill, a series that was basically gone for a decade or so, and doing poorly for around two decades, can come back and have a remake that has some very real performance issues still do even a third as good as an exceptional Gold standard, that's.... pretty good to me? The reviews are flirting between "overwhelmingly positive" and the top end of "very positive". Despite the desperate attempts to establish a narrative that it's not doing so well... it's seems it's doing fine, sorry. At least with the players. Now, sure, we don't know if Konami was expecting it to match Resident Evil 2 remake's success, or if it had some insane development budget... but something tells me neither were true. Call it a hunch for obvious reasons. Companies may be greedy, but they don't go "we absolute rely on more money than what the biggest success has earned for the next thing we always put out". That's not how it works; that's not how any of this works. They hope for amazing success, yes... but they don't invest development budgets every time that rely on it happening to keep them afloat. They'd all be out of business right now if that were the case.

Originally posted by Harry:

And Resident Evil 2 remake sold in 3 days what Silent Hill 2 remake did in a month. What's your point?

It hasn't even been a month though? It released just over two weeks ago.

And no, "the pre-orders were available earlier" doesn't matter because for one, that was only a couple of days, and regardless of early access time duration, those are just people who would have otherwise still bought it day one and were willing to spend more for early access. The day three sales numbers likely would have been about the same if anything.

[Kagato]

Damn, you all got baited hard.

[Clef the Mouse]

Originally posted by Smeagoleyes:

Originally posted by PRAET0R1AN™:

It doesn't need to sell 10 million copies to be considered a success.

Over a million sales apparently across both PS5 and PC.

Just 1 million? It's def not making those sales then.

1. RE7 had fewer peak concurrent players, and it eventually sold just under 14 million copies. "It's def" premature, at best, to say this game won't get to 10m at some point.

2. You're not the one who decides how many copies sold = success. You pulled 10 million out of your ass and/or are continuing to perpetrate a bad translation that's been clarified over a year and a half ago: https://www.pcgamer.com/bloober-team-wants-you-to-know-it-never-said-silent-hill-2-is-done-no-matter-what-google-translate-says/

[Harry]

Originally posted by Clef the Mouse:

Originally posted by Smeagoleyes:

Just 1 million? It's def not making those sales then.

1. RE7 had fewer peak concurrent players, and it eventually sold just under 14 million copies. "It's def" premature, at best, to say this game won't get to 10m at some point.

2. You're not the one who decides how many copies sold = success. You pulled 10 million out of your ass and/or are continuing to perpetrate a bad translation that's been clarified over a year and a half ago: https://www.pcgamer.com/bloober-team-wants-you-to-know-it-never-said-silent-hill-2-is-done-no-matter-what-google-translate-says/

No one buys the Resident Evil sequels. Only the remakes.

[Clef the Mouse]

Originally posted by Harry:

Originally posted by Clef the Mouse:

1. RE7 had fewer peak concurrent players, and it eventually sold just under 14 million copies. "It's def" premature, at best, to say this game won't get to 10m at some point.

2. You're not the one who decides how many copies sold = success. You pulled 10 million out of your ass and/or are continuing to perpetrate a bad translation that's been clarified over a year and a half ago: https://www.pcgamer.com/bloober-team-wants-you-to-know-it-never-said-silent-hill-2-is-done-no-matter-what-google-translate-says/

No one buys the Resident Evil sequels. Only the remakes.

Not really good at the ol' reading comprehension, huh?

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by Kagato:

Damn, you all got baited hard.

I mean, it's obvious certain people aren't discussing these things in good faith and are just "trolling". That was easy to pick up on for me. Sometimes it's a good time or boredom killer to pick their weak arguments apart anyway.

[Rastrelly]

Originally posted by Smeagoleyes:

Originally posted by Viper:

Yet you think they stopped selling the game after 3 days. Obviously the number is much much higher at this point. And when they release those numbers you will finally be shut up.

Not shutting up at all unless it's 10 million.

I like how you consistently ignored all requests to provide source for your 10 million claims, as well as all mentions of 10 millions not being set as a goal, while screaming how virtuous and non-troll you are. Quite pathetic.

[Rastrelly]

Originally posted by Kagato:

Damn, you all got baited hard.

Nah, the creature received nearly 0 points, people are learning.

[Marhier]

This conversation is so pointless.
Until they release what the budget was for this game, you're never gonna know if this was a success or not.

[Kron]

It sold 1 million in 3 days and has now sold around 3 million total since. The franchise prior to this games release had sold about 10 million copies since 1999, so in less than a month Bloober have sold almost a third of the total franchise sales on just this game alone.

[ingueferroque]

Why don't you buy it, OP?

[Smeagoleyes]

Originally posted by Kron:

It sold 1 million in 3 days and has now sold around 3 million total since. The franchise prior to this games release had sold about 10 million copies since 1999, so in less than a month Bloober have sold almost a third of the total franchise sales on just this game alone.

source of 3 million?