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Considering that even a massive success like Wukong is making significantly less money than games like Genshin Impact and cost significantly more to develop then yes, single player games are pretty dead as far as profit goes. You know why NetEase and Tencent don't make games like Wukong? Not because they can't but because it makes no financial sense to make it.
@@None38389but single player games on general has more succeess if the game if good. Live service is unpredictable. It’s like saying winning a lottery is more money than going to a job. Ofcourse dummy. But jobs are reliable, lottery is not.
@@None38389 Genshin is an extreme outlier. Most live service games die very quickly and shut down, while single players can still be sold years after nobody is working on the game anymore.
Imagine being a success so much that the entire game industry gets affected in a positive way, from consoles to pc hardware, this game just made history
I have the same mentality for keeping my Switch. Don’t care for most of their first party titles but it can run Cytus, Deemo, Voez, and Lumines natively and portably 😂
@@joshjo9405i heard because Microsoft forces all games to release both in series x and series s at the same time otherwise they don't want the games to be released in there platform with some exception.
Literally 0 reason to buy an Xbox at this point. No exclusives and overpriced gamepass. I've been day one Xbox original and i built a PC and never went back. If i had to buy a console I would buy a ps5. Hardware is cheap now so really no reason to stick to consoles.
@@schassismx3115you do know your argument in that case goes to the PS5 too bro. Not everyone is able to afford a pc or knows how to set one up. Hence why we go with consoles
@@schassismx3115 Nintendo too they have amazing games and the console's as cheap if not cheaper than series S shit I'd rather choose mobile gaming over Xbox in this day and age
No. Business wise msft is in a great position as they can use 3rd place status to get acquisitions for cloud. This is why they don’t care too much about Xbox and will just flood their competitors. BMW will probably get released later as it’s in the publisher/dev to build a base for future games.
I can guarantee it. Someone called AlkaJugger has a PC build that is similar to a Series S in performance, and he tests games there to see what issues games are going to have in that platform. I think this game had to use extremely low resolutions to be upscaled, and even there he is having issues mantaining 30 fps. We are talking about sub 500p. It's really bad, so they are surely trying to figure out a way to optimize that. You can not release a game to the market in that state. This is good, because keep in mind good optimization on consoles translates to PC and the rest of the consoles, like with Jedi Survivor updates, that got so good to the point they now want to release that game on PS4. If it barely runs on a PS5, I can imagine how it would run on a PS4, but hey! It's much better for the rest of the platforms thanks to that now.
I have no idea why they even made the S. It’s like Microsoft wanted to handicap themselves by releasing a less powerful console that also has to have the same games that X has.
@@rickkcir2151 But I could say the same thing about any console, because they make even less sense in comparison to PCs now. The S being there is perfect, because it's a cheap platform that actually makes sense, and I'll explain why later. They (Microsoft) wanting devs to release games in both platforms is the actual issue. If a game can't run well on the S, then it shouldn't be on the S until it's better optimized and if it ends up being better optimized in the first place. Look at how long is taking Jedi Survivor to get releases on last gen hardware. No one is forcing devs to release the game in both the PS5 and PS4. They do it if and when they can. I say that because a PC that can do much more than any console costs $565 (Ryzen 5500 + 4060 combo + rest of the parts, including a P3 SSD that it's almost as fast as the one on PS5 and faster than the one on the X). You get DLSS 3 Frame Generation, which is A LOT better than FSR 3, both the upscaler and FG. For instance, on Black Myth: Wukong, using 1080p, you can have DLAA, which is native 1080p, but makes the image look higher resolution, at the same time you can use Reflex to have way better input latency than on consoles, and even lower than what you originall had before FG at 60 fps. Then you have optimized settings that look way better than the ones you see on PS5, FG to get to 100 fps, and you can enjoy that game with better image definition, way less input latency, way less artifacts (if you can notice one in the first place), better visuals, etc, and you save a lot of money in the long run because of cheaper prices and not having to pay to play online or to have cloud save. Even on front, a PC vs Xbox Series X is a no brainer to me, but try to build a PC that it's around the same price than a Series S, and you'll see how much issues you are going to have matching the same price, or a bit higher, and having a much better experience. For starters, the cheapest entry level GPU on the 4000 series is the 4060, so forget about that DLSS 3 and its Frame Generation. At that point, at least when it comes down to the hardware inside of the platform, the Series S is a really good deal, if you can find one for around $250.
@@rickkcir2151 it's because back at release they wanted to push the narrative that they are the end-all-be-all for value gaming, so they released a budget 'next gen' console, S, at the same time they released gamepass so they could try to scoop up all the lower budget people of course that failed them in countless ways over the long term, not least by making them way harder to work with than necessary
I’m proud of Game Science, I’m not chinese or part of the studio, but it’s just inspiring to see. As a game developer who worked on AAA for the last 5 years on mostly forgettable projects, I hope one day I’ll have the opportunity to work on something this heartfelt and special. Other than sales figures it really feels like a labour of love - no nonsense approach.
@@spellsnaretheir very first AAA single player (non live service) game. Looking forward to more high quality single player games coming out from China.
Honestly, I'm not surprised. I've played the game for only 11 hours, and the amount of content is just shocking. Every character has a backstory/lore that you can read in the journal, even the minor characters. No go fetch me this, go fetch me that boring, chore-like side quests that require the players to run across half of the map for some half-ass rewards. The side quests are completely optional, and the rewards are awesome-plus, you can unlock secret bosses and secret maps by completing them. It's so refreshing to play a game that was clearly made with love and passion, not another soulless AAA title that get pushed out just for the sake of it.
@@DeathMetalThrasherWhat sucks is it's not like they are making fleshed out characters usually. It's just tokenism, token person of color, token queer person. As a queer person that's not what I wanted. Masako in Ghost of Tsushima is a decent example of a queer character - her actions (a secret affair with one of her servants) is treated in a way that makes sense for the game's era.
you'd be bitterly disappointed if you bought a console just for one game, remind yourself of the amount of half arsed shit games we've had before BM - it's pretty rare
"Dealt blows" is a choice of words, I guess. As a nay sayer for both games, it's just that these trailers coming out and the end game turning out to be mid or just trash is the norm these days, but I'm always happy to take an L and having a great game instead.
sony should invest more on studios from south korea, and china. korea has been rising in games, Stellar Blade, Life of P, inZoi and China with Wukong plus genshin impact. Sony is literally next door to them.
Fun fact. For the tiger boss. They actually just hooked up a house cat to a bunch of motion capture sensors, had it jump around, and used that for the animations.
Wrong China is mainly pc gaming market And suddenly casual gamers wanna try that game Casual gamer will never buy a gaming pc This is inventory miss management in china (I won't blame sony) cause they were blind sided by wukong demand There are many many stocks available in asian market Europe and america
The Chinese are really taking pride in this game not only for its cultural significance, but because it was made by their own and done so well. Personally, I'm very happy to see their success. This is a great game, I'm curious whats next.
Nah I just own both the series X and PP5. I just use my series X 90% of the time because it's my preferred platform and I will wait for it to release on there rather than buy it on sonys platform. I still can't believe the wifi is still so trash. It's the exact same problem ps4 had. I can easily and quickly download a game on my Xbox yet on my PP5, even though it's much closer to my router, it still takes a very long time to download stuff so Im forced to move it to another room just to be able to use the lan cable or w.e
The xbox series S was a huge mistake. It is a burden that makes many games arrive late or never arrive and the worst thing is that Microsoft can not abandon it because it is its best-selling console. The average xbox user buys the cheapest console and supplies it only with the gamepass, and that has destroyed the interest of developers in microsoft consoles in this generation.
Hell no, China is going to use this to change culture and make more fucking communist. I’m good, I’m not going to support the Chinese government, thus I won’t by from Chinese developers.
Xbox can’t stop taking major L’s. First, it was Baldur’s Gate 3, and now they’ve missed out on another hit by not having Wukong available at launch. It’s almost as if they’re purposely trying not to sell games and consoles.
@01:30... Don't leave out countries from the same time zone as China. South East Asia is home to 700 million people, the majority are non-English speakers as well. Surely, there are a lot of gamers from there.
Sony/Ps store doesn't even have this game in their front logo for promotion for the PS store and its getting its marketing from word of mouth. Every good thing
I mean it really has nothing to do with playstation. all their first party games are trash for the most part and they just happened to luck out. 😂 first party game companies have no idea what they are doing what so ever.
Did some basic math on a calculator, if 20 million sale, that is about 1 billion and 200 million dollars. That pretty much sets them in the AAA market budget now. Game service said they were working with only 40 million budget, that means they made 1,160,000 in profit. Yeah big pay day.
Yeah, the sales figures would have been even higher if you could bet it for series X. Also, a lot of people (me included) are holding out for a physical release.
I had to refund it on steam because it's poorly optimized, running on a 4060 and couldn't even play on low settings without it crashing, musta seen the starting cutscene about 20 times
@@miss_pelt honestly we really don't need any more multiplayer games because gaming as it is has become so competitive it's actually pretty disgusting I just wish these publishers would focus more into single player games
@@mychealmcknight7963 I know, right? But what big company so far have understood this? They are so out of touch. Me, due to time constraints, prefer single player all the way. Co-op, especially local, can be nice sometimes, but I don't have time for live service, least of all several.
has sony even had any big releases since launch? other than flash in the pan games like helldivers 2... I don't follow the consoles much since I'm on PC
Honestly, it's one of the MOST diverse games I've played. You play a monkey man fighting celestial beings, wolf people, rat people, tiger people... so much diversity
Oh no China is going to be pushing their Ideas, remember Free Hong Kong, I remember free Hong and all the people who disappeared… I won’t support China in anything.
It's so funny how allergic to profits Sony is. I mean, it's all right there. Solo stuff do be breaking records. Macrotransaction-less games also do shockingly well, and they are *still* sitting on the DRAGON sized hoard that is free money of a Bloodborne PC port... Do they have anyone in higher up positions that have even played a videogame before, or do they still call everything a Nintendo?
9:13 The real reason why Black Myth Wukong isn't on Xbox is because the console has never sold well and isn't popular in the Asian market, PlayStation and Nintendo has always been the go to devices for gaming in Asia and PC has somewhat recently seen a resurgence in popularity.
Nope series S is the reason. Game is struggling to run on ps5 And Microsoft won't allow series x exclusive Or they will be buried in lawsuits Corporation are made to make money Profit is, was, will be the endgoal Almost everywhere in world, government allow board members to sue the company if the are intentionally Not making more profits Look into it
I hope Sony, Microsoft, and EA are seeing this and are starting to understand. And I would love a game like this but set in the world of The Never Ending Story.
That's why most are free and gain money every day, COD, fortnight etc, you can only buy a single player game once and gain nothing afterwards, make the next or new game and hope it makes money, some do some don't that's the nature of the beast.
@@Mark-mu4pj That's not most MP games, those are the biggest multiplayer games. MOST multiplayer games don't make squat, even if they're free. Most MP-only games have to be free because people won't pay for them. Sony's very recent Concord is a perfect example of people not wanting to pay for a MP game, and it'll probably end up FTP. When you have a game with single player and MP, 90% of people buy the game for its single player. And people play a single player more than once. That's why there's NG+ and higher difficulty levels.
Bummer for Xbox would have been a huge sales boost for them, but i suppose it's karma for all the awful s*** they have been doing lately, regardless of all that tho' i hope this will be a huge boost for PC Gaming and hopefully put a damper on Mobile Gaming.
Happy for the game and devs for this massive success and the fact that PS5 hardware ran out because of your game is a massive accomplishment on its own. I think "To achieve success and peace you must first be patient and suffer" showed itself here
Xbox missed out on the Baldur's Gate 3 release in 2023 and now the Wokong release in 2024. I recall there was worry PlayStation was in trouble with the Microsoft acquisition of Activision/Blizzard but it seems MS had done nothing but drop the ball and missed out on being at the starting get for two surprise hits.
Sony should get on their knees and do some serious ass kissing to these developers that saved their PS5 during a time when all their live services have been failing.
Sony getting free exclusivity windows on every big launch in the past few years, because of Microsoft's console parity requirement, is really doing wonders for their sales numbers.
Whether you dislike it or not. Yasuke was a real black guy in Japan. There's a dispute as to whether he was an actual Samurai but it's clear Nobunaga had respect for him.
China makes monkey game about their mytologi = big success. The West makes a cultural appropriate game about Japan, but to pander the West's ideologies = big failure
US government can also ban Chinese low cost and high quality EV cars, overnight. And Huawei phones, of course. And it will ask its allies to follow suit, despite their unwillingness. Hmm, that's not a problem .... if it is US government.
it not out on xbox yet because the dev said there isn't much xbox player in asia so they are prioritizing the platform their market play on. also 81% of the sales are in China. Mainland China isn't the only country to use simplified chinese. Singapore for example use simplified chinese as well.
Crazy how a single game like Black Myth Wukong can significantly boost the presence of a console like PS5 in the Chinese market, a market that has a much stronger mobile presence. The game not releasing on Xbox yet due to technical issues was a huge missed opportunity for Microsoft.
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Man this really gives the phrase: "made in china" a run for it's money huh?
- *Single player games are dead*
yeah right
Considering that even a massive success like Wukong is making significantly less money than games like Genshin Impact and cost significantly more to develop then yes, single player games are pretty dead as far as profit goes. You know why NetEase and Tencent don't make games like Wukong? Not because they can't but because it makes no financial sense to make it.
@@None38389brain dead take. Games like Genshin Impact barely make up 1% of the market and are anomalies than anything
@@None38389but single player games on general has more succeess if the game if good.
Live service is unpredictable.
It’s like saying winning a lottery is more money than going to a job. Ofcourse dummy. But jobs are reliable, lottery is not.
And it's still going strong to this day
@@None38389 Genshin is an extreme outlier. Most live service games die very quickly and shut down, while single players can still be sold years after nobody is working on the game anymore.
Imagine being a success so much that the entire game industry gets affected in a positive way, from consoles to pc hardware, this game just made history
You didn't watch......
Game of the year?
Facts 🎉
@@BTRshow yeah
Yes, at least game developers worldwide would rethink forcing the so-called DEI elements into the games
If "Suffering from Success" is a video game, this is the one.
Ironically at it peak.
I like how the console sellers this time is not a PS exclusive game.
And Xbox just straight up suffering
Xbox stay seething
no thats helldivers
Love how "can play wukong" is a salestag for hardware xD.
I have the same mentality for keeping my Switch. Don’t care for most of their first party titles but it can run Cytus, Deemo, Voez, and Lumines natively and portably 😂
Can it run Crysis
Last time: can it run crysis?
Now: can it run wukong?
AAA GAMES PC just doesnt have the same quality
should be "can play monke" "can be monke"
It's almost as if people like single-player games without a circulation of micrtotransactions.
That's crazy
Or pointless politics dont forget that.
@@draw2death421 AND pointless politics
Crazy idea man. XD
Or maybe it’s because it’s the first good journey to the west game, so tons of people in china are buying it.
Thanks to accidental release exclusivity, Sony has managed to make up for a lot of the loses made by Concord.
Isn't that mostly because Microsoft made Xbox hard to work with?
@@joshjo9405i heard because Microsoft forces all games to release both in series x and series s at the same time otherwise they don't want the games to be released in there platform with some exception.
@@joshjo9405yeah, that's why it's "accidental"
I think PS will include concord as free when you buy their console...lol
Haha. Suck it Xbox/ Phil Spencer.
Sony should promote more games like Wukong and less games like Concord.
naw
Probably not with the current board.
Doesn’t fit the agenda so they won’t
@@LarixusSnydes Make YongYea as Sony President and see the sales figures go skyrocketing
@@TurtleChad1 Doesn’t fit the agenda
Whoever says singleplayer game is dead, show them this.
Fact
they already know and they are pissed
The massive popularity this game received is incredible. I might get it in the future.
when it's on plus extra maybe, this is not my type of game anyways 🤔
i dont play soul game or GOW type...but this wukong damn addictive
buddy nobody is playing this dumb monkey game 😂 get on Concord if you wanna become a alpha so that latina girl in class can finally talk to you
Im getting it straight away
@@HUYI1 k nobody asked.
Man Xbox really should have made just the Series X and not the S. That alone has held back so many games.
Literally 0 reason to buy an Xbox at this point. No exclusives and overpriced gamepass. I've been day one Xbox original and i built a PC and never went back. If i had to buy a console I would buy a ps5. Hardware is cheap now so really no reason to stick to consoles.
@@schassismx3115you do know your argument in that case goes to the PS5 too bro. Not everyone is able to afford a pc or knows how to set one up. Hence why we go with consoles
@@schassismx3115 Nintendo too
they have amazing games and the console's as cheap if not cheaper than series S
shit I'd rather choose mobile gaming over Xbox in this day and age
I want Series E and Y
No. Business wise msft is in a great position as they can use 3rd place status to get acquisitions for cloud. This is why they don’t care too much about Xbox and will just flood their competitors. BMW will probably get released later as it’s in the publisher/dev to build a base for future games.
I can almost guarantee that a huge issue with releasing on Xbox X/S is mainly about the S not having enough power to run the game.
I can guarantee it. Someone called AlkaJugger has a PC build that is similar to a Series S in performance, and he tests games there to see what issues games are going to have in that platform. I think this game had to use extremely low resolutions to be upscaled, and even there he is having issues mantaining 30 fps. We are talking about sub 500p. It's really bad, so they are surely trying to figure out a way to optimize that. You can not release a game to the market in that state.
This is good, because keep in mind good optimization on consoles translates to PC and the rest of the consoles, like with Jedi Survivor updates, that got so good to the point they now want to release that game on PS4. If it barely runs on a PS5, I can imagine how it would run on a PS4, but hey! It's much better for the rest of the platforms thanks to that now.
I have no idea why they even made the S. It’s like Microsoft wanted to handicap themselves by releasing a less powerful console that also has to have the same games that X has.
@@rickkcir2151 But I could say the same thing about any console, because they make even less sense in comparison to PCs now. The S being there is perfect, because it's a cheap platform that actually makes sense, and I'll explain why later. They (Microsoft) wanting devs to release games in both platforms is the actual issue. If a game can't run well on the S, then it shouldn't be on the S until it's better optimized and if it ends up being better optimized in the first place. Look at how long is taking Jedi Survivor to get releases on last gen hardware. No one is forcing devs to release the game in both the PS5 and PS4. They do it if and when they can.
I say that because a PC that can do much more than any console costs $565 (Ryzen 5500 + 4060 combo + rest of the parts, including a P3 SSD that it's almost as fast as the one on PS5 and faster than the one on the X). You get DLSS 3 Frame Generation, which is A LOT better than FSR 3, both the upscaler and FG. For instance, on Black Myth: Wukong, using 1080p, you can have DLAA, which is native 1080p, but makes the image look higher resolution, at the same time you can use Reflex to have way better input latency than on consoles, and even lower than what you originall had before FG at 60 fps. Then you have optimized settings that look way better than the ones you see on PS5, FG to get to 100 fps, and you can enjoy that game with better image definition, way less input latency, way less artifacts (if you can notice one in the first place), better visuals, etc, and you save a lot of money in the long run because of cheaper prices and not having to pay to play online or to have cloud save. Even on front, a PC vs Xbox Series X is a no brainer to me, but try to build a PC that it's around the same price than a Series S, and you'll see how much issues you are going to have matching the same price, or a bit higher, and having a much better experience. For starters, the cheapest entry level GPU on the 4000 series is the 4060, so forget about that DLSS 3 and its Frame Generation. At that point, at least when it comes down to the hardware inside of the platform, the Series S is a really good deal, if you can find one for around $250.
The s was a neat idea but making it so weak was such a poor idea.
@@rickkcir2151 it's because back at release they wanted to push the narrative that they are the end-all-be-all for value gaming, so they released a budget 'next gen' console, S, at the same time they released gamepass so they could try to scoop up all the lower budget people
of course that failed them in countless ways over the long term, not least by making them way harder to work with than necessary
Wait, I thought single player games were dead and we should be comfortable not owning our games? 🤔
Well wukong is only digitally available
i mean...as far as owning goes, we don't own them anymore, especially on pc/Steam.
You can buy the disc version when it eventually releases but steam is fine no issues with them for so many years
This game has denuvo DRM lmao
@@crocodilegamer93 it will get cracked eventually
0:07 Who is this "Juan" that has broken all kinds of records?
He's popping off these days, but I still don't know who he is.
The Chinese market sure didn't rush out to buy Dustborn or Concord
Neither did the western market...
They have so many freemium games, why bother?
Reddit is down the hall to the left
Love to see single-player games get this kind of recognition 🎉🎉
I’m proud of Game Science, I’m not chinese or part of the studio, but it’s just inspiring to see.
As a game developer who worked on AAA for the last 5 years on mostly forgettable projects, I hope one day I’ll have the opportunity to work on something this heartfelt and special. Other than sales figures it really feels like a labour of love - no nonsense approach.
that also the first time that a china video game sell so much outside of they're home countrys.
@@spellsnaretheir very first AAA single player (non live service) game.
Looking forward to more high quality single player games coming out from China.
There’s a reason why even the films industry prioritizes releasing their films in China. Serious money can be made from there
Don't be fooled, people are buying ps5 and pc for 2024s GOTY concord
Concord is already dead tho
LMAO
I thought Dustborn was 2024s GOTY
@@ardent835nah bro its flintlok
@@ardent835 close second lol
Honestly, I'm not surprised. I've played the game for only 11 hours, and the amount of content is just shocking. Every character has a backstory/lore that you can read in the journal, even the minor characters. No go fetch me this, go fetch me that boring, chore-like side quests that require the players to run across half of the map for some half-ass rewards. The side quests are completely optional, and the rewards are awesome-plus, you can unlock secret bosses and secret maps by completing them. It's so refreshing to play a game that was clearly made with love and passion, not another soulless AAA title that get pushed out just for the sake of it.
Sony marketing team right now “wOw, BeTtEr GaMeS = mOrE CoNsOlE?”
Marketing leader: "Aie thot dey wan moar queer & non-binarie?!?"
But daddy phil spencer say Great games DONT sell consoles!
-xbox fanboy's
@@DeathMetalThrasherWhat sucks is it's not like they are making fleshed out characters usually. It's just tokenism, token person of color, token queer person. As a queer person that's not what I wanted. Masako in Ghost of Tsushima is a decent example of a queer character - her actions (a secret affair with one of her servants) is treated in a way that makes sense for the game's era.
Astrobot comes out next month
@@samc9133bitching about minorities, the 13 year old gamer elite right here.
Good thing Sony is focusing on Live Service games. Look at how well Concord is doing.
If they had purchased Bungie sooner, they may have gotten a warning they’d take seriously and not thrown away $150 million on this turd 💩 Concord
@@chincemagnetwhat does buying that awful studio have to do with crappy live service games?
@@GentleJellicent Well, they have to flush away the crap left by Jim Ryan lol
All their main studios are making single player games. They launched 5 games this year.
Not only in China. It is sold out in Japan too
But how much of that is then directly imported into China… 🤔
Phil spencer said that good games wont sell consoles. Wukong proved him wrong.
you'd be bitterly disappointed if you bought a console just for one game, remind yourself of the amount of half arsed shit games we've had before BM - it's pretty rare
This, Stellar Blade really have dealt blows to all the neigh sayers and haters that insist these games upon first trailers are "tech demo baits"
Neigh sayers? I didn't know horses played video games.
@@authurstretchygreenthing8464 lmao.. good one
*naysayers
"Dealt blows" is a choice of words, I guess. As a nay sayer for both games, it's just that these trailers coming out and the end game turning out to be mid or just trash is the norm these days, but I'm always happy to take an L and having a great game instead.
sony should invest more on studios from south korea, and china. korea has been rising in games, Stellar Blade, Life of P, inZoi and China with Wukong plus genshin impact. Sony is literally next door to them.
Fun fact. For the tiger boss. They actually just hooked up a house cat to a bunch of motion capture sensors, had it jump around, and used that for the animations.
I wonder how many scalped PS5 there are for Concord 🗿🗿🗿🗿
Nobody ever planned on buying that. And Sony still gets big money from Wukong's sales, fucc a Concord.
Win some, lose some. Maybe Sony will gain some insight from this.
They had to pay people to take those ps5's
Probably in the negatives
Bro corncord is the game of all time🗣️👌🔥😎it already made 1000 corncordillion dollars 🎉🤩💸🤑
Hopefully Sony will see the difference between Wukong and Concord and reevaluate their priorities going foward
The good thing is that Sony has china hero projects and they have dozens Chinese games for release
Yeah they’ll lean more into a Chinese audience.
Concord won't get one sell in China 😂
Perhaps Taiwan would be a more appropriate reference for its openness to diversity.
@@ultracapitalistutopia3550 Nah If the game is shit, taiwan also wouldnt buy that shit.
This is what happens when you create a masterpiece of a game, it literally breaks records!
Fact it just like Guinness world record.
Four years later and Sony still can’t keep up with demand. /s
Wrong
China is mainly pc gaming market
And suddenly casual gamers wanna try that game
Casual gamer will never buy a gaming pc
This is inventory miss management in china (I won't blame sony) cause they were blind sided by wukong demand
There are many many stocks available in asian market Europe and america
More like game companys will now switch the demand back to Single Player games if they are done right. Screw the live service games.
Poor xbox . No spiderman , no helldivers 2 and now no wukong
no FF7 Rebirth, no Stellar Blade
Salute all those Chinese people that went out and bought a PS5 just to support this game, thats incredible and should go down in history. Respect!
I'm from Asean chinese..l will get one this week😊
The Chinese are really taking pride in this game not only for its cultural significance, but because it was made by their own and done so well.
Personally, I'm very happy to see their success. This is a great game, I'm curious whats next.
Black Myth: Jiang Ziya Black Myth: Zhong Kui, already in preparation
A SINGLE player game.
It sold millions across PS5 and PC already. Xbox must be salty. Starfield is another pronoun game and Fable will be too, probably Avowed as well. 😂
black myth will be released on xbox...
@@theundertoker35 It got delayed on Xbox “indefinitely”, meaning it’s out of picture entirely until further notice.
@@eviljerm still not sure what that's got to do with pronouned games like fable and avowed 🤣🤣 back under your bridge you neckbeard
but I thought "11 out of 10 games don't sell consoles" Phil. I say this proves that theory wrong because only need a 9/10 game to sell consoles.
Nah I just own both the series X and PP5. I just use my series X 90% of the time because it's my preferred platform and I will wait for it to release on there rather than buy it on sonys platform. I still can't believe the wifi is still so trash. It's the exact same problem ps4 had. I can easily and quickly download a game on my Xbox yet on my PP5, even though it's much closer to my router, it still takes a very long time to download stuff so Im forced to move it to another room just to be able to use the lan cable or w.e
@@johnparker1853goodluck waiting for Wukong to download on Xbox then, it'll probably take about a year or two😂
Just to counter Phil Spencer... GAMES do sell systems.
Don't forget, the game still doesn't have disc versions. Once that happens it will be even more.
The xbox series S was a huge mistake.
It is a burden that makes many games arrive late or never arrive and the worst thing is that Microsoft can not abandon it because it is its best-selling console.
The average xbox user buys the cheapest console and supplies it only with the gamepass, and that has destroyed the interest of developers in microsoft consoles in this generation.
All facts
Gamers all over the world should be happy about this. China will continue making great games for the world.
Hell no, China is going to use this to change culture and make more fucking communist. I’m good, I’m not going to support the Chinese government, thus I won’t by from Chinese developers.
Live service games are begging like why can't we get those numbers
i mean..uhhh....honor of kings?
"Make a genuine good game would result in good sales? Are you crazy? That's never happened. DEI is the way.*
Valve has made a fortune with this game selling millions on steam. I love Asian games Dreadfall is a great game still one of my favourites
Xbox can’t stop taking major L’s. First, it was Baldur’s Gate 3, and now they’ve missed out on another hit by not having Wukong available at launch. It’s almost as if they’re purposely trying not to sell games and consoles.
_For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction._
Fact
That is Game Science.
@01:30... Don't leave out countries from the same time zone as China. South East Asia is home to 700 million people, the majority are non-English speakers as well. Surely, there are a lot of gamers from there.
Like another great game said……”You’ll never see it COMING!!”🎉🎉🎉
Joker agree that statement
Don't underestimate The Journey to the West.
It is not only popular in China, but it also popular in most of Asia countries
Suffering from Success.
One things is for sure, series x users are getting screwed bad by the parity clause,
I'm obsessed with this game. Some of the bosses are insanely creative.
Sony/Ps store doesn't even have this game in their front logo for promotion for the PS store and its getting its marketing from word of mouth. Every good thing
How does PlayStation keep getting these weird wins in their ongoing video game struggles? This has got to be studied.
Only because Xbox required all their games to come out on the Series S. They gotta be kicking themselves in the face right now.
Facts. It'll eventually hit Xbox. I'm gonna hold out for a series x version instead of buying it for PP5.@@a_passing_cloud
I mean it really has nothing to do with playstation. all their first party games are trash for the most part and they just happened to luck out. 😂 first party game companies have no idea what they are doing what so ever.
@@Born2DoubleUp Yup, most are trash 😮💨 opinions invalid
This is a case where you don't have to be good yourself, you just have to make sure the other side is more incompetent then you.
The game has 14.6million units sold by now. It wouldn't surprise me if it reaches 20 million by Sunday as Friday is pay day for most people.
Did some basic math on a calculator, if 20 million sale, that is about 1 billion and 200 million dollars. That pretty much sets them in the AAA market budget now. Game service said they were working with only 40 million budget, that means they made 1,160,000 in profit.
Yeah big pay day.
Next Chinese game on the horizon is Phantom Blade 0. Let's see hw it performs. :)
Games sell consoles. It’s been a fact since forever… feels like the industry forgets sometimes lol
Black Myth is still delayed on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S due to a memory leak issue. Us Xbox users suffering rn.
This is why you get both consoles. Screw that console war BS.
Yeah, the sales figures would have been even higher if you could bet it for series X. Also, a lot of people (me included) are holding out for a physical release.
I had to refund it on steam because it's poorly optimized, running on a 4060 and couldn't even play on low settings without it crashing, musta seen the starting cutscene about 20 times
I really hope Sony don't mess this up but knowing their track record they most likely will
They will take one look at this and think 'Live Service is the way to go, clearly!' 🤪
@@miss_pelt honestly we really don't need any more multiplayer games because gaming as it is has become so competitive it's actually pretty disgusting I just wish these publishers would focus more into single player games
@@mychealmcknight7963 I know, right? But what big company so far have understood this? They are so out of touch. Me, due to time constraints, prefer single player all the way. Co-op, especially local, can be nice sometimes, but I don't have time for live service, least of all several.
I’m so confused what live service game has Sony dropped recently?
@@Darth_Arashi Concord, unless we are pretending that the game does not exist.
Sony hasn’t seen these kind of sale demands since the console was out of stock everywhere.
has sony even had any big releases since launch? other than flash in the pan games like helldivers 2... I don't follow the consoles much since I'm on PC
@@theundertoker35spiderman 2
Crazy how a lot of games still come out for 60 dollars as well and they are always better than 70 dollar games
I hope gaming companies take the right thing away from this.
More single player one time purchases.
And not just pander to China.
chinese market is insane. Stellar Blade from South Korea did great as well. These regions colliding and working together with Sony could be incredible
Ps needed this after the Concord disaster
Probably the Concord and the Dustborn develop teams are now playing BMW to cope with their sales disaster.
It boosts Playstation sales much better than its own 1st party game Concord.
Also the fact that the game costs 60 dollars and not 70 is a HUGE deal that I don’t think a lot of people bring up
PS5 is much cheaper than 4090
Scalping, the bad part of physical ownership on games.
The system is not flawed, only the HUMAN element is to blame.
Greed, greed never changes.
The xbox series s has caused more damage than any good it brings. Holding back games for no reason at all
I really enjoyed playing Black Myth Wukong, even though I have some gripes with it. Definitely gonna be Game of the Year
Concord looks like a game that Michaels son from gta 5 would play
The game is amazing. Really exceeded my expectations that was the first game I had pre-ordered in a very long time.
I fuckin love to see this man.
Honestly, it's one of the MOST diverse games I've played. You play a monkey man fighting celestial beings, wolf people, rat people, tiger people... so much diversity
Korea, China showing the western world how to make games without pushing ideologies.
Oh no China is going to be pushing their Ideas, remember Free Hong Kong, I remember free Hong and all the people who disappeared… I won’t support China in anything.
It's so funny how allergic to profits Sony is. I mean, it's all right there. Solo stuff do be breaking records. Macrotransaction-less games also do shockingly well, and they are *still* sitting on the DRAGON sized hoard that is free money of a Bloodborne PC port...
Do they have anyone in higher up positions that have even played a videogame before, or do they still call everything a Nintendo?
The Series S continues to be the worst decision since the One's reveal event.
Microsoft fumbled this generation
9:13 The real reason why Black Myth Wukong isn't on Xbox is because the console has never sold well and isn't popular in the Asian market, PlayStation and Nintendo has always been the go to devices for gaming in Asia and PC has somewhat recently seen a resurgence in popularity.
Nope series S is the reason.
Game is struggling to run on ps5
And Microsoft won't allow series x exclusive
Or they will be buried in lawsuits
Corporation are made to make money
Profit is, was, will be the endgoal
Almost everywhere in world, government allow board members to sue the company if the are intentionally
Not making more profits
Look into it
I hope Sony, Microsoft, and EA are seeing this and are starting to understand. And I would love a game like this but set in the world of The Never Ending Story.
Most people play games for single player content. Multiplayer is ok, but it doesn't really sell games like single player does.
Depends on genre
That's why most are free and gain money every day, COD, fortnight etc, you can only buy a single player game once and gain nothing afterwards, make the next or new game and hope it makes money, some do some don't that's the nature of the beast.
@@Mark-mu4pj That's not most MP games, those are the biggest multiplayer games. MOST multiplayer games don't make squat, even if they're free. Most MP-only games have to be free because people won't pay for them. Sony's very recent Concord is a perfect example of people not wanting to pay for a MP game, and it'll probably end up FTP.
When you have a game with single player and MP, 90% of people buy the game for its single player. And people play a single player more than once. That's why there's NG+ and higher difficulty levels.
Ah right, the dark side of success: Scalping and out of stock. Been a long time since I've seen that.
Bummer for Xbox would have been a huge sales boost for them, but i suppose it's karma for all the awful s*** they have been doing lately, regardless of all that tho' i hope this will be a huge boost for PC Gaming and hopefully put a damper on Mobile Gaming.
its wild that one game could do all that. that being said devs take note, thats how you make a video game
Xbox, pay attention instead of buying studios. Make great games and the console will sell.
And Sony keeps pushing live service games instead of high quality single player titles such as Bloodborne 2 e.g. Insane.
I’ll only play if there’s a physical edition
After their success, I'm sure there will be soon. Just like BG3.
Wait there isn't one???
@@-castradomis-1773nope
@@-castradomis-1773 Nope not at the moment
@@D4rkKn1ght311screw bg3
Happy for the game and devs for this massive success and the fact that PS5 hardware ran out because of your game is a massive accomplishment on its own. I think "To achieve success and peace you must first be patient and suffer" showed itself here
Xbox missed out on the Baldur's Gate 3 release in 2023 and now the Wokong release in 2024. I recall there was worry PlayStation was in trouble with the Microsoft acquisition of Activision/Blizzard but it seems MS had done nothing but drop the ball and missed out on being at the starting get for two surprise hits.
Sony should get on their knees and do some serious ass kissing to these developers that saved their PS5 during a time when all their live services have been failing.
Sony getting free exclusivity windows on every big launch in the past few years, because of Microsoft's console parity requirement, is really doing wonders for their sales numbers.
Ohh, so that's where most of the player numbers are from.
China is hyped to see their mythology told on global scale.
I , as a German, am proud that BMW is doing so well in China :))
Imagine if Ubi's devs invested similar love and effort AC shadow to promote the locate culture.
Whether you dislike it or not. Yasuke was a real black guy in Japan. There's a dispute as to whether he was an actual Samurai but it's clear Nobunaga had respect for him.
@@johnparker1853 Well, let's wait and see how well the game sale then.
China makes monkey game about their mytologi = big success.
The West makes a cultural appropriate game about Japan, but to pander the West's ideologies = big failure
What's sad is Xbox is missing out now that the game is at it's peak sales and still going.
The problem with the Chinese market is that the government can destroy your business model overnight on a whim.
They just don't want propaganda pushed on there citizens from the west if you follow the rules the government will support you.
Essentially this. Hence the frustration of companies appealing to the Chinese market: You can't say shit about their "glorious" government.
US government can also ban Chinese low cost and high quality EV cars, overnight. And Huawei phones, of course. And it will ask its allies to follow suit, despite their unwillingness. Hmm, that's not a problem .... if it is US government.
Ha... U are right. Just like what the US did to Hwa wei ... Kidnap people too.
The real problem is US gov sell the lgbt products to the world especially in entertainment industry！
So sick of the Series S holding back the Series X. Another game were getting late because of microsofts idiotic policy.
These TH-camrs milking the F out of this game my god, if you aren’t aware of all this news already, you’re living under a rock! 😂
The issue with Xbox also happened to Baldur's Gate 3.
it not out on xbox yet because the dev said there isn't much xbox player in asia so they are prioritizing the platform their market play on.
also 81% of the sales are in China. Mainland China isn't the only country to use simplified chinese. Singapore for example use simplified chinese as well.
can we stop using this shitty term "mainland china"?
china is just china
hong kong, taiwan, macau etc... are independent countries
@@imStorm3r hong kong, taiwan, macau is not independent countries never is never will be.
@@imStorm3rHongkong, Taiwan, Macau is part of China who was colonized by Europe.
@@imStorm3r are you an idiot??
@@kleberson777 Only the Chinese government believe that they "own" other nations