MULTI [OT] Horizon Zero Dawn | More than 10 million copies sold lifetime

psh..people take gaming too seriously!!

Why so serious?

I don't get the fuss over this. Some PS fans seem to be sad about losing exclusivity; some (including myself) are happy that more people will get to experience HZD. Some PC fans seem to be happy while others sound indifferent. In any case, PS fans aren't losing anything and PC gamers are gaining something. I get the concern about losing other PS exclusives but that's not the case for now and there's a difference between HZD and other PS exclusives. HZD's Decima engine has already been used by third party developers, including Supermassive Games and Kojima Productions. So it's not that surprising that HZD is coming on PC but I don't see a parallel with other PS exclusives.

Necrokiller said:

So you are happy other people get to play HZD but still concerned about more people getting to play other exclusives?

As of Sept 2019, HZD had sold more than UC4.

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I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon but if it does, I'm just uncertain as to how it's going to work considering exclusives are a defining feature of PlayStation. So while I wouldn't mind other exclusives going multiplatform, I wouldn't, in that case, see a reason to own a PlayStation anymore - which makes me think why Sony would do that to itself.

Necrokiller said:

So you are happy other people get to play HZD but still concerned about more people getting to play other exclusives?

As of Sept 2019, HZD had sold more than UC4.

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Wrong.

It sold 10m as of Feb 2019 (which is the latest figures I can find online):

https://www.vg247.com/2019/02/28/horizon-zero-dawn-over-10-million-sold/

Uncharted 4 had sold 15m as of Summer 2019:

https://apptrigger.com/2019/05/21/god-war-surpasses-10-million-sales-ps4-uncharted-4-tops-15m/

I doubt Horizon sold 5+ million copies in 3 months years after release.

Necrokiller said:

You will still get to play all those first party games and multiplatform games on your Playstation console. What changes for you?

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That those first party games are available elsewhere as well and so my platform options are now open unlike before. Might as well just get a PC for broader gaming and non-gaming purposes.

Necrokiller said:

Ah, I see. I assumed you're locked in the Sony/console ecosystem which clearly isn't as valuable once the options open up to you. Makes sense.


Yes, that data was based on the biggest market i.e. US, where Horizon ZD outsold UC4.

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Again, you're kinda wrong, in terms of PS's biggest market at least. The US is 'biggest', sure, but PS is equally huge in Europe.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/453604/playstation-4-unit-sales-in-europe/

As of 2018, the PS4 had sold upward of 35m in Europe. Adding in approximate 2019 figures, it's safe to assume 1/3rd (or even more) of the PS4's 100m sales are from Europe.


Yes i know the US is still the biggest market, but UC4 has sold 5M+ more WW, which is a pretty large chunk of extra sales.

But WW UC4 has sold 5M+ more than Horizon, that was my point. The world doesn't revolve around NA (which sounds weird from one guy in NA telling that to another guy in NA :laugh1: )

Necrokiller said:

I was telling SS that HZD is a bigger deal than he makes it sound compared to other exclusives. If Sony had to port over a Decima Engine game, Until Dawn was also an option

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You know I would have personally preferred if they ported Until Dawn, that game never got a Pro patch and performance is very uneven.

Also, HZD is a pretty big fucking deal. The success of that new IP and Sony's confidence in Guerilla led the guy incharge of that studio to be promoted to head of PlayStation. If that doesn't say success, I don't know what does.

Necrokiller said:

I was telling SS that HZD is a bigger deal than he makes it sound compared to other exclusives. If Sony had to port over a Decima Engine game, Until Dawn was also an option

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Oh, HZD is a big deal as an exclusive - no doubt about that. I just meant that a Decima game going multiplat, especially after Death Stranding, is not as surprising as, say, Uncharted, God of War, or Spider-Man would've been had one of them were to go multiplat. That's where I don't see a parallel between HZD and other major PS exclusives. And it's not like Guerilla is giving away everything. Killzone is still an exclusive (although it's not that big of a deal when compared to HZD). Also, HZD sequel, if and when it happens, is most likely to be a PS exclusive, at least initially. So, HZD PC version seems like an experiment at this stage. I agree that Until Dawn needs more love than HZD, and that it would've been a better choice for a PC port if we are considering Decima, but then it probably wouldn't have been such a big deal as HZD. I'm not gonna bet on anything though. Who knows if exclusivity will be a thing in the future.

[h=1]Horizon: Zero Dawn confirmed for PC[/h]

"I think it's important that we stay open to new ideas of how to introduce more people to PlayStation, and show people maybe what they've been missing out on," he said.

"And to maybe put a few minds at ease, releasing one first-party AAA title to PC doesn't necessarily mean that every game now will come to PC. In my mind, Horizon Zero Dawn was just a great fit in this particular instance. We don't have plans for day and date [PC releases], and we remain 100% committed to dedicated hardware."

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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-03-10-horizon-zero-dawn-confirmed-for-pc

RIP the dream of TLoU 2 on PC before 2023.

I bought it on ps long time ago. Dont have time to play such lengthy games anymore. Maybe this rerelease will ignite my fire again.

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Nothing says 100% committed to dedicated hardware than releasing Death Stranding, Dreams, Horizon zero Dawn, Detroit: Become human and others on PC

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