Piscatella pointed out that half of the games that made the list were launched before the 2020s. Most notably,
Elden Ring, which
we gave a 10 and
quickly became the best-selling game of the past year, ranked 20th and fell short to older games like
Rocket League and
World of Warcraft.
Piscatella accredited the game’s surprisingly low placement to the success of evergreen and live service games, calling them “gravity wells for player attention, time and spending.” Q1 is typically defined as the period from January to the end of March, so Elden Ring would also have only been released for one month.
Piscatella expanded on this thread by stating that more AAA games should seek the help of services like
Game Pass and the new
PlayStation Plus, saying he believes these plans can help “get games funded, released, and to help them break through the barriers of the big evergreen titles.”