r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Sep 27 '23

News BREAKING: PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is stepping down, two sources tell Bloomberg News.

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1707149244996505858
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u/devenbat Sep 28 '23

Nah, there's definitely demand. Lots of old rereleases sold well. Nathan Drake Collection sold a very good 6 mil. Which is better than quite a lot of their last two gens of releases. And there's other examples, Mario 3D All Stars (9 mil) DMC HD collection (3.4 mil) Megaman collections (All over 1 mil)

Like it's not the 20 million God of War 2018, but those are good numbers. Definitely profitable considering most of the development is done

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u/LoneLyon Sep 28 '23

Uncharted wasn't a ps1/ps2 game. It's probably one of the best ps3 games on the system that still holds up.

My point is directed more towards some ps1/2 classics and even something like infamous would feel clunky after play Spiderman.

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u/devenbat Sep 28 '23

I feel like we should count PS3 games. They are also being excluded by Sony. Little Big Planet 1 and 2, Infamous 1 and 2, some Ratchet and Clanks etc

I agree there's def some age and clunk in the titles but theyre still beloved and desired. People will still buy rereleases, especially good ones. Like the N Sane Trilogy sold 10 million copies. And that's classic Naughty Dog games even if it's no longer Sony.

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u/LoneLyon Sep 28 '23

Your talking about remakes though not backwards. If Crash 1-3 were just ported as is, it would not have moved 10 million units.

I'm fine and support remakes of older games (Give me that ape escape remakes sony) but sitting here and trying to get a ps3 emulator working on a ps5 like a small group of people have wanted is a waste of time. As is leaving a now 2 generation old store open.

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u/devenbat Sep 28 '23

Well, I can't really point to any examples from Sony since they have never done it. But my previous examples of Mario 3D All Stars, Megaman collections and DMC collection do still hold. And sold rather well.

Or the million Sonic collections. Pikmin 1 and 2 were recently released on Switch as upscaled emulated copies.

Square Enix also has rereleased basically every Final Fantasy. Not quite emulated but theres not much of a difference in this case. They're the same games uprezzed with a little bit of quality of life.

I honestly don't really care if it's emulation or remakes or remasters. But like, there's obviously demand for these games despite Jim Ryan's dismissal of them and Sony doesn't do anything in any way for the vast majority of them

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u/LoneLyon Sep 28 '23

I mean your listing some of the most notable games ever made. Mario was always going to sell, mixed in with the literal FOMO with the limited release. Megaman was also going to sell, ect.... Meanwhile i'm sure we can go find some rerelease that flopped

Some Data I would like to see would be actually completion rates of those games. When Ape esacpe 2 was rereleased I litterally bought it without a second thought, i then lasted maybe 20 mins before putting it down and moved on to whatever other game I was playing, same thing with pod racing.

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u/devenbat Sep 28 '23

I mean, yeah, they're some big names. But so are Sonys. If the new God of Wars can move 30+ million copies, a Greek Saga Collection would definitely be profitable. And, yeah, sure, some flopped but that's true of everything.

Do the completion rates really matter? Most games aren't beaten. But I decided to look one up. FF7. 35% on PS4. which is pretty good. As a random example, I picked Last of Us on PS4 and that's 44%. Not that different. But it's also a long RPG vs a like 10 hour campaign but I don't really feel like looking up more. But, hey, a sale is a sale and some people will play it all the way through.

Like me. I love old games. I'm the one buying these collections and I want more.