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[Lunatic_Gamer]

As reported by VGC, Sony specifically mentioned “a new sports title” (EA Sports FC 25 launched at the end of September) and “an action RPG title from China” (Black Myth: Wukong) for PlayStation’s sales success in the quarter.

Black Myth: Wukong, from Chinese developer Game Science, launched on August 19 and sold an eye-watering 18 million copies in just two weeks across PC and PS5, reportedly making over $700 million in revenue in the process. That’s enough to put Black Myth: Wukong up there with Grand Theft Auto 5 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as one of the fastest-selling games of all time, and is an astonishing return for a game that had a reported budget of $70 million over six years of development.

Sony Points to Black Myth: Wukong Success in Big PlayStation Quarter After Concord Disaster - IGN

Sony’s video game business saw impressive growth during the most recent financial quarter, boosted by sales of blockbuster action game Black Myth: Wukong that more than made up for the disastrous launch of Concord.

www.ign.com

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Very good for China and many congratulations to the boys.



Keeping in mind Hermen Hulst... He will be, as always, ungrateful.

 

[nial]

What did Concord have to do with anything? Nice clickbait, IGN.

 

[bender]

 

[nial]

Very good for China and many congratulations to the boys.



Keeping in mind Hermen Hulst... He will be, as always, ungrateful.

Why do you speak as if you personally know him...

 

[cormack12]

You will need to make outlandish revenue to subsidise our DEI portfolio. IGN now adopting, it wasn't that much of a disaster because you made enough cash to not trash it.

Please make more HH - oh wait, new article incoming!!!

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Why do you speak as if you personally know him...

He don't support Japan Studio .

And turns of life... The one who helped was China.

 

[Fabieter]

What did Concord have to do with anything? Nice clickbait, IGN.

Wukong is success of the quarter and concord is failure of the quarter.

 

[jm89]

What did Concord have to do with anything? Nice clickbait, IGN.

Yup what a dumb correlation.

 

[Little Chicken]

We don't even know how much money Sony made from it....

 

[Gaiff]

This is so dumb. How did Black Myth Wukong help recover that money? They pissed that money in the wind. BMW didn’t recover it. It just made its own money.

 

[jm89]

Wukong is success of the quarter and concord is failure of the quarter.

Any losses due to concord failure would have been over the course of years, wukongs success and whatever Sony earned from would be form that quarter.

 

[nial]

He don't support Japan Hulst.

And turns of life... The one who helped was China.

Sigh, please stop reading and believing everything you read on the internet.
People used to laugh at you when you made hating on Jim Ryan your entire personality, do you really want to be known as the Hulst guy from now on?

Wukong is success of the quarter and concord is failure of the quarter.

Zero correlation, still. It's a very stupid headline.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I’d like to thank Concord and Black Myth Wukong for delivering a successful quarter.

 

[Crayon]

Or maybe Concord wiped the wukong profits.

 

[ReBurn]

What a weird thread title.

 

[Pantz]

That's not how losing money works

 

[bender]

Sigh, please stop reading and believing everything you read on the internet.
People used to laugh at you when you made hating on Jim Ryan your entire personality, do you really want to be known as the Hulst guy from now on?

 

[Chris23]

Wow, that means Sony should 100% make Concord 2!

 

[M.W.]

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Another victory !

 

[Three]

As reported by VGC, Sony specifically mentioned “a new sports title” (EA Sports FC 25 launched at the end of September) and “an action RPG title from China” (Black Myth: Wukong) for PlayStation’s sales success in the quarter.

Black Myth: Wukong, from Chinese developer Game Science, launched on August 19 and sold an eye-watering 18 million copies in just two weeks across PC and PS5, reportedly making over $700 million in revenue in the process. That’s enough to put Black Myth: Wukong up there with Grand Theft Auto 5 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as one of the fastest-selling games of all time, and is an astonishing return for a game that had a reported budget of $70 million over six years of development.

Sony Points to Black Myth: Wukong Success in Big PlayStation Quarter After Concord Disaster - IGN

Sony’s video game business saw impressive growth during the most recent financial quarter, boosted by sales of blockbuster action game Black Myth: Wukong that more than made up for the disastrous launch of Concord.

www.ign.com

I think the unnamed sports title could just as easily be College football.

 

[nial]

Holy fuck lmao didn't see it before, did he already have that +10 minutes ago?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Go woke, go…. successful and profitable quarter. Suck it chuds

- Jason Schreier

 

[Punished Miku]

Once Heimdall_Xtreme sets his sights on a CEO, they tend to retire within a year or two.

Dude's lethal, don't let him fool you.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Very good for China and many congratulations to the boys.



Keeping in mind Hermen Hulst... He will be, as always, ungrateful.

Truer words couldn't be told. That madman will waste that money on another flop, again embarrassing Mr.Totoki and the Playstation family.

 

[Punished Miku]

What a weird thread title.

"AI helped MS make back all the money from Activision / Blizzard purchase. Even if it is $70 billion, they already made it back."
- IGN

 

[T-0800]

Wukong is success of the quarter and concord is failure of the quarter.

All the money spent on Concord wasn't spent in one 3 month period.

 

[Represent.]

If Im Sony I buy GameScience immediately. Invest in them like you did Bungie, skys the limit with these guys, that studio is pure young raw talent.

Also need that PS5 Pro patch immediately. stop being lazy

 

[Bradamante3D]

It makes zero sense to lump together Black Myth Wukong and Concord into one article. It suggest a connection or correlation where there is none. Black Myth was not developed to make up for other titles failing. The success of Black Myth is supposed to finance a more expensive sequel, just like the success of Concord was supposed to finance sequels, spin-off, cross media etc.

 

[Neilg]

lol at everyone complaining about the correlation. You know these quotes are from their earnings reports to shareholders? They lost money over there, made more over here. The shareholders only care how the books are balanced, and wukong was the thing that made the biggest difference. It's somewhat relevant to talk about both games in that context.

 

[Self_Destructive]

Or maybe Concord wiped the wukong profits.

LOL

 

[Fahdis]

We don't even know how much money Sony made from it....

Tree Fiddy.

 

[adamsapple]

Or maybe Concord wiped the wukong profits.

 

[Punished Miku]

What a weird thread title.

He's had more normal thread titles in the past, so it balances out okay.

 

[Dafegamer]

Not sure how a Third Party Games success can compensate for Concord's failure, but whatever

 

[Alebrije]

Once You loss money You never recover it.

 

[Schmendrick]

another bullshit clickbait article from people pretending not to understand how basic accounting works...

 

[WoJ]

That's not how business works, but thanks for playing.

 

[WoJ]

lol at everyone complaining about the correlation. You know these quotes are from their earnings reports to shareholders? They lost money over there, made more over here. The shareholders only care how the books are balanced, and wukong was the thing that made the biggest difference. It's somewhat relevant to talk about both games in that context.

That's called spin. They have to prove to their shareholders they aren't incompetent asshats who know what they're doing. Of course if a shareholder asks you're going to spin it as "Yeah concord sucked, but we made all this money with Black Myth Wukong so it's all good".

 

[Banjo64]

It’s ok that we lost $400m on this game because we made $400m on another.

You can’t be serious.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

I don't believe this nonsense.

Most sales(90%??) were on PC. It is highly unlikely that Sony can compensate for the Concord flop with a few wukong copies sold.

 

[Magic Carpet]

A Draw is a Draw.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

it was never about the money.... but the message.

 

[cormack12]

Lunatic_Gamer right about now

 

[ungalo]

da fuck are you talking about ? BMW is not a Sony game, they didn't make that much on royalties.

 

[MarV0]

That's one hell of a weird cope to be honest.

 

[yogaflame]

I never like Chinese government and communism but in fairness there games or even movies produce by China does not force or push any agenda. I might purchase this game in physical copy any time soon.

 

[Utamaru1706]

"Action RPG from China"

lol, both Genshin and Zenless Zone Zero also falls into that category, and both games has been making money for Sony this year, especially Genshin that has won the Playstation Partner Grand Award literally every year, so I honestly think that the game Sony mentioned is either these 2 games, and not Black Myth Wukong, although BM: W does seems to perform greatly on Playstation.

 

[BouncyFrag]

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