Fallout 4 Ships 12 Million Copies in One Day, Breaks all Records in history of video games

[Fairfax]

 

[Turisas]

Clearly there's no need to invest in a new engine or anything, when the current one is performing so admirably sales-wise.

 

[Nomad_Blizz]

They should use the money and hire better writers.

 

[Makabb]

Fallout 4: PornHub sees a noticeable drop in users on launch day

PornHub told recently that it noticed a 10% drop in traffic on the day Fallout 4 launched.




Fallout 4 got the power to put porn business on the streets


http://stevivor.com/2015/11/fallout-4-pornhub-sees-a-noticeable-drop-in-users-on-launch-day/

 

[upwardlymobile]

the hype spread all by itself even without marketing

yeah right. bethesda is a viral marketing firm with a games section.

 

[Severian Silk]

It had the highest number of concurrent Codex players ever, too. Just sayin'.

 

[Immortal]

Fallout 4: PornHub sees a noticeable drop in users on launch day

Seems there is a huge overlap of Bethesda fans and Pornhub users.
Doesn't really surprise me.

 

[Volrath]

Seems there is a huge overlap of Bethesda fans and Pornhub users.
Doesn't really surprise me.

Bunch of degenerate basementdwelling wankers.

 

[Angthoron]

How about the next day when the nude skin mod was released?

 

[Makabb]

Black Ops III made $550 (£361) million in the the first three days of its release, outperforming last year’s Advanced Warfare.

Fallout 4, however is the bigger blockbuster in terms of sales as it made over $750 (£492) million in the opening 24 hours alone.



http://www.desiblitz.com/content/call-duty-black-ops-iii-vs-fallout-4

 

[Sykar]

I do not know why but this kind of news leaves a bad taste in my mouth suddenly.

 

[you know what time it is]

Black Ops III made $550 (£361) million in the the first three days of its release, outperforming last year’s Advanced Warfare.

Fallout 4, however is the bigger blockbuster in terms of sales as it made over $750 (£492) million in the opening 24 hours alone.



http://www.desiblitz.com/content/call-duty-black-ops-iii-vs-fallout-4

I should have started selling coke to game devs a long time ago.

 

[Seethe]

 

[Mexi]

Wasn't this the place that was talking about a crash in the gaming industry being on the horizon? GTA: V, Call of Duty, and Fallout: 4 didn't seem to get the memo.

 

[Lhynn]

Wasn't this the place that was talking about a crash in the gaming industry being on the horizon? GTA: V, Call of Duty, and Fallout: 4 didn't seem to get the memo.

If anyone said that hes a retard, but sounds more like wishful thinking than an actual statement.

 

[Gregz]

More proof the that Codex has lost touch with what makes games fun.

 

[catfood]

Its news like these that can convert one to atheism.

 

[m_s0]

More proof the that Codex has lost touch with what makes games fun.

It's not a Codex sentiment (not just, anyway), and the observation is not entirely without merit. A model which results in games selling millions of copies and somehow still failing to recoup their budgets - not to mention making any money - is not sustainable in the long run.

Ideally, you want to avoid every single AAA game being the equivalent of Cleopatra, especially if you're making several of those a year.

 

[prodigydancer]

games selling millions of copies and somehow still failing to recoup their budgets - not to mention making any money

Does anyone still believe this bullshit? How many major publishers went bankrupt, say, last year? The industry is choke full of people who laugh all the way to the bank yet keep telling us how poor they and their companies are.

 

[Kazuki]

I don't know, the article said shipped not sold.
Shipped doesn't mean all that copies of the game is sold to the customer, no ?

 

[m_s0]

games selling millions of copies and somehow still failing to recoup their budgets - not to mention making any money

Does anyone still believe this bullshit? How many major publishers went bankrupt, say, last year? The industry is choke full of people who laugh all the way to the bank yet keep telling us how poor they and their companies are.

Bankrupcy is just the most extreme result. Myself, I don't believe there's going to be a crash in the foreseeable future. I would like to see the major publishers making cheaper games, though. Might allow for more creativity to shine through.

I don't know, the article said shipped not sold.
Shipped doesn't mean all that copies of the game is sold to the customer, no ?

It still sold well, I bet. But yeah, and that's how the current gen console sales figures were reported as well if I remember correctly.

 

[prodigydancer]

Myself, I don't believe there's going to be a crash in the foreseeable future.

There won't be a crash because there's no reason for it. When you make a game with bland landscapes, dumbed down systems and fanfic-grade story using a 10 year old engine, the game itself is dirt cheap and you're free to spend 90% of your budget on marketing. FO4 is just the most notorious example but in truth every AAA publisher has been using the very same model for years. The only scenario where this model could be unsustainable is people losing interest in AAA games completely. But that won't happen because 5 years from now there'll be millions of new teenagers ready to listen to the same lies and spend their parents' money on the same garbage.

And as for the publishers not breaking even: LOL, just LOL. It's just what you're supposed to tell the public these days. You see the only actual change brought by the Occupy movement (I know that Occupy was an unfocused unorganized protest started by naive dumbfucks and hijacked by attention whores who turned it into a typical popularity contest) is that "social responsibility" crap doesn't fly anymore. So the new corporate modus operandi is to pretend that you're not as wealthy as you actually are.

 

[pippin]

The video game crash was a problem of marketing, not development. Also it mostly happened in America, the rest of the world kept making videogames.

 

[Roguey]

Wasn't this the place that was talking about a crash in the gaming industry being on the horizon? GTA: V, Call of Duty, and Fallout: 4 didn't seem to get the memo.

If anyone said that hes a retard, but sounds more like wishful thinking than an actual statement.

True, but it's also true that costs and expectations have resulted in a new console generation where quite a few are relying on remakes/remasters, releasing multiplatform games on not just the xbone/ps4 but the last generation, or bowing out of the AAA space altogether.

 

[Infinitron]

The "AAA crash" was a meme a couple of years ago when THQ and Atari went bankrupt, Bioshock Infinite took too long to develop and undersold, etc. It's not something people are talking about today.