Personally, as someone who just got a PS5 for Christmas, I have yet to pony up for Midnight Suns for a couple of reasons. I love card games and I love Marvel Comics and I love a lot of the characters/ waifus featured in Midnight Suns including Magik, Wanda, and Nico is alright, so the branding is fine. The issues are:
- Price point. Spending $40-$70 on a game with gameplay I might not like or even hate is too much of an ask. I just got physical copies of Nier Automata for $20 and Mechwarrior 5 for $18. Were Midnight Suns < $20 then sure I'll take a flyer on it, just like MW5 I could take a flyer.
- Too much glut of must-play games right now. With so many games on the PS5 Plus subscription game catalog, even if there are only about 5 titles that are "must play", that's still several months of content - like it would take me at least half a year to play through Final Fantasy VIIR, Death Stranding, Yakuza 0, Yakuza Like a Dragon, Asscreeds and Bloodborne alone. Add in games that aren't in the catalog (Nier Automata, GTA V, RDR 2, NBA 2k23, Witcher 3, God of War) and games coming out this year, how would anyone find time to play Midnight Suns?
- Honestly, the card game/ tactical battle genre is a bit unappealing. At best it's Cardhunter, and its more likely a Gloomhaven (and I hated Gloomhaven).
- The nu-X-com reputation is a turn off for me as well.
- The plot seems generic if not downright popamole. Featuring the mainsteam Avengers characters is another red flag. Iron Man is only a selling point to MCU movie fans.
- Releasing at roughly the same time as Marvel Snap probably cannibalized Midnight Suns' main demographic.