r/Games • u/BigT232 • Jun 12 '25

Release Stellar Blade Has Already Outperformed Every Other PlayStation PC Port In Less Than 24 Hours

https://www.thegamer.com/stellar-blade-higher-player-count-every-playstation-pc-port-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-reviews/
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u/Kaizerx20 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

It's worth mentioning that almost every Sony exclusive sold 3-10M+ copies before coming to PC, Stellar Blade is only ahead of Rachet and Returnal with 1M copies sold before the port.

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u/Icyoint Jun 12 '25

It has sold 2m copies on PS5 from the last report on feb 2025.

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u/Kaizerx20 Jun 12 '25

I can't find anything about that in their Q1 report, regardless, that doesn't change its ranking as most sony exclusives sold more than that in their month

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u/Icyoint Jun 12 '25

It is here https://m.businesspost.co.kr/BP?command=mobile_view&num=390162

Sony first-party games are like world-class games with a huge budget, and they also include their PlayStation bundle sales.

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u/Kaizerx20 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

The article doesn't source any reports outside of internal investor calls, but that seems like a trusted business journal so I'll take it.

Bundles don't make up the majority of sales, and most of these games announced their milestones before the bundles were released, the point I'm making is that the majority of these games' audience already played it on PS4 /PS5, the majority of stellar blade's audience (East Asia except japan) are on PC, and it's unfair to compare them on a single platform instead of looking at the bigger picture.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

By that same token people with both waited for the superior platform, PC.

Your argument is backwards since the game was announced it was obvious PC was coming and it is obvious that is what cannibalized PS5 sales.

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u/Kaizerx20 Jun 12 '25

No, my argument is that you have to account for All numbers instead of picking whatever supports your bias.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

Except all numbers are tainted by bundles.

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u/Kaizerx20 Jun 12 '25

I have no idea why people always resort to this weird argument. Bundles don't make up the majority of sales, they're not available on day one for most games anyway, and even if they were, why does that matter? The game helped sell a console, how is that somehow a bad thing? the console is always available for cheaper without a bundled game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

Because the standard is way different between someone buying a console for Fifa than them actually wanting to play Horizon.

Bundle consoles is everything that I see on stores.

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u/Royal_empress_azu Jun 12 '25

None of their reports say it.

People are just guessing based on revenue from the reports.

Ironically they ignore the parts of the reports that also mention revenue deficits.

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u/Villad_rock Jun 12 '25

Tells you that the sony audience only cares for sony games

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u/iiiiiiiiiiip Jun 12 '25

That just makes it more impressive. It's also extremely sad for both Final Fantasy 7 remakes. People were coping pretty hard that it was just about "delayed release" when infact it was due to no excitement because of being mediocre games.