Doom: The Dark Ages reportedly sold less than 1M copies

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https://80.lv/articles/doom-the-dark-ages-has-reportedly-sold-less-than-1-million-copies

Making ray tracing mandatory probably had a lot to do with PC sales apparently slipping
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Raytracing has been a thing for over 6 years at this point. I don't think it's unreasonable to start releasing games that require it. Didn't seem to hurt the sales for Indiana Jones
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chris1001_the_sequel posted...
Raytracing has been a thing for over 6 years at this point. I don't think it's unreasonable to start releasing games that require it. Didn't seem to hurt the sales for Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones did not sell well at all. It's debatable how much of that is because of Gamepass, but other games also on Gamepass have sold much better on Steam than it did. It looks like pretty much all of its success was entirely on Xbox.

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chris1001_the_sequel posted...
Raytracing has been a thing for over 6 years at this point. I don't think it's unreasonable to start releasing games that require it. Didn't seem to hurt the sales for Indiana Jones
sure but most of the gamers run on budget builds and not a lot adapted to it yet cuz of how over priced gpu has become these last years
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HashtagSEP posted...
Indiana Jones did not sell well at all. It's debatable how much of that is because of Gamepass, but other games also on Gamepass have sold much better on Steam than it did.

Taking away options is never good.

My mistake saw an article and misread "played" as "sales". That article said 4 million plays though, so that gives some idea on Gamepass vs sales.
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chris1001_the_sequel posted...
Raytracing has been a thing for over 6 years at this point. I don't think it's unreasonable to start releasing games that require it. Didn't seem to hurt the sales for Indiana Jones
The id Tech engine is infamous for being so optimized that you can run Doom 2016 and Eternal nearly maxed out on the shittiest PCs at ludicrous framerates. It doesn't help that id's been outspoken about using ray tracing not to push their engine further but to save devs time and effort.
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chris1001_the_sequel posted...
My mistake saw an article and misread "played" as "sales". That article said 4 million plays though, so that gives some idea on Gamepass vs sales.

That kinda illustrates the problem, though. A vast majority of its success was via Gamepass, and most of that appears to be console. PS5 sales, while abysmal, were also better than PC, despite coming later. That suggests mandatory ray tracing did hurt its sales.
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CRON posted...
The id Tech engine is infamous for being so optimized that you can run Doom 2016 and Eternal nearly maxed out on the shittiest PCs at ludicrous framerates. It doesn't help that id's been outspoken about using ray tracing not to push their engine further but to save devs time and effort.

their engine is amazing. They could lease it out of company and make profit easily.

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CRON posted...
https://80.lv/articles/doom-the-dark-ages-has-reportedly-sold-less-than-1-million-copies

Making ray tracing mandatory probably had a lot to do with PC sales apparently slipping
Also Gamepass
I wonder if the sales failure of this and Indiana Jones is really going to make game companies slow down plans for mandatory ray tracing. One of the big reasons the industry is pushing ray tracing is because it lowers the time it takes to develop games.
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pretzelcoatl posted...
Also Gamepass
expedition 33 is also on gamepass and it just sold over 3 million
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chris1001_the_sequel posted...
Raytracing has been a thing for over 6 years at this point. I don't think it's unreasonable to start releasing games that require it. Didn't seem to hurt the sales for Indiana Jones
Raytracing is notoriously demanding, especially on the older cards that support it.
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The more a think of it, less than one million sales for a Doom game is a mindblowingly low number.

You have Split-Fiction, an original IP with unorthodox gameplay selling 2 million in a week.

Last year a remake of Persona 3 sold 1 million on launch day despite being on Gamepass.

Everyone know how crazy successful the New IP Clair Obscur is (also on Gamepass).

The silver lining is this is that game companies need to think twice about charging high prices for games and having high system requirements in a time when buying new graphics cards are expensive.
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CRON posted...
The id Tech engine is infamous for being so optimized that you can run Doom 2016 and Eternal nearly maxed out on the shittiest PCs at ludicrous framerates. It doesn't help that id's been outspoken about using ray tracing not to push their engine further but to save devs time and effort.
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I didnt buy this because the physical version is just a disc that triggers a download

Ill get it on deep discount eventually
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TheGoldenEel posted...
I didnt buy this because the physical version is just a disc that triggers a download


Same. That decision cost them a sale.
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Kain_Highwind posted...
expedition 33 is also on gamepass and it just sold over 3 million
Fair enough!
I thought I heard it was the best selling of the Doom games.
TheGoldenEel posted...
I didnt buy this because the physical version is just a disc that triggers a download

Ill get it on deep discount eventually
I would pay real money for a real physical release, but I'll pass on this one.
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HashtagSEP posted...
Indiana Jones did not sell well at all. It's debatable how much of that is because of Gamepass, but other games also on Gamepass have sold much better on Steam than it did. It looks like pretty much all of its success was entirely on Xbox.

Taking away options is never good.

I got Indiana Jones for free from buy an nvidia gpu end of last year.
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I don't even know who Ray Tracing is or how much he got paid for this game but surely launching on Game Pass cost them more than that
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I'm interested but I'm not shelling out for a 70$ game at full price, also my computer is getting older (6 years old this November) and I'm unsure it can handle it. Planning on replacing the thing this coming Black Friday.
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whatever deal microsoft cuts to put stuff on gamepass, it's *disastrous* for game sales

(granted, high price tag and high specs for a doom game probably don't help either)
Why not go all in?
Voidgolem posted...
whatever deal microsoft cuts to put stuff on gamepass, it's *disastrous* for game sales

(granted, high price tag and high specs for a doom game probably don't help either)

Plenty of games have sold well despite being on Gamepass. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 and Persona 3 both sold like crazy despite being day 1 Gamepass.
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As did Lies of P, Palworld, and many others. The comments I've seen from developers (and not Jim Ryan) say that they're very happy with Gamepass deals.

Given the number of developers that have put multiple titles on Gamepass, it is safe to say that they have no problem with the deals that they get from Microsoft.
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Also didn't help they turned Doom into parryslop with the shield.
Good of them to try to mix things up but I dunno if that was the way.
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pretzelcoatl posted...
Fair enough!

nah there are definitely different layers to it.

1: clair obscur is much better reviewed
2: doom carries a fucking standard price of 80 vs CO's 50. even on sale it's a hard price to swallow which makes CO all the more attractive.

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NeonPhoenix posted...
I heard your PC explodes from this game

That's only the people running on Argent Energy
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YellowSUV posted...
Plenty of games have sold well despite being on Gamepass. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 and Persona 3 both sold like crazy despite being day 1 Gamepass.
Yeah. I tried games like Palworld and Grounded on Gamepass and decided I wanted to buy them. So now I have them both on Steam. Gamepass isn't necessarily the death of game sales.
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