Does Sony Overestimate How "Big" The Horizon Franchise Is?

[Neuromancer]

Of course it flopped, it sold over 32 million copies. Do you know how many people are in the world? Not even half of China bought the game!

Damn so old man Jing didn't buy it?

 

[Diondon]

They want a Disney princess so bad.

Well, they can't all be Hellblades

 

[Rekkapryde]

Did the game flop or not?

Not even close.

Just people for their own agenda.


Now that Lego Horizon joint should and is flopping. No one asked for that.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Well, they can't all be Hellblades

 

[The Mad Titan]

Well, they can't all be Hellblades

Don't disrespect Joanna like that

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Don't disrespect Joanna like that

Won’t sell half as much as horizon

 

[Jaguar93]

Perfect Dark vs Horizon 3 in sells? Mmmm…..

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Perfect Dark vs Horizon 3 in sells? Mmmm…..

You can keep it at horizon 2 since thats the one they’re saying flopped

 

[Jaguar93]

You can keep it at horizon 2 since thats the one they’re saying flopped

You seem confident

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

You seem confident

An xbox console exclusive hasn’t sold 8.5 million copies since george bush jr was in office. So yeah

 

[Jaguar93]

An xbox console exclusive hasn’t sold 8.5 million copies since george bush jr was in office. So yeah

 

[Hitchens]

Why are people trying to downplay Horizon success?

In North America, Horizon forbidden west sold about 1.1 million copies without bundles in its first month. The only other PS exclusives that have better first month sales in N.A .than horizon are Spiderman and God of War and maybe helldivers?

For comparison, Uncharted 4 did around 850k+ with bundles/ without bundles 600k-650k
Star wars Jedi survivor- 700k-1mil
Recent Resident evil games 600k-1mil.

with all these failed spin offs like the VR game and Lego game, the remaster flopping and Forbidden West not doing as well as they hoped, does Sony overestimate how popular the Horizons franchise really is? they seem to think it's some franchise cash cow or house-hold name, but do gamers really care about the Horzion games like that?

Prequels/spinoffs tend to sell significantly worse than the mainline games especially if they are made for niche product like VR. The only spinoffs that does better than the mainline are those Forza Horizon games.

 

[IgnorantDwayneWayne]

Off the top of my head:
Killzone (killzone 2 sold horribly and got greenlit for #3 to compete against other fps games and got squashed)

Recently:
Death stranding did not do that well. Theyre making a sequel right now

KZ2 + KZ3 both sold between 2-4 million individually on 2008/2010 budgets. That’s not a flop. Especially for that time. Internet hyperbole isn’t reality.
DS was fukking walking simulator trash but it sold over 5 million by march of 2021. That’s more than MG3 btw. That’s b4 the Directors cut dropped on ps5.. Again not a flop anywhere except to internet nerds.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

Horizon is mid, but it's clearly not a flop. I don't think it's super successful either. It was bundled and has been discounted for a while, but Sony clearly makes enough money off the series to not abandon it so I can't just call it a flop. Definitely a mid ass franchise though, Aloy is the most boring modern protagonist in gaming she has the personality of a cardboard box.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Imagine if any game could just clear 20 million sales with bundles and discounts