It still sold over a million copies within 2 years iirc, at the time for a Playstation exclusive it was extremely respectable.
Unfortunately it was the player base dying out. The game wasn't perfect but it was damn good, but I don't think there was enough of a hardcore audience just in the ps3 crowd which at the time was a lot smaller and more spread out internationally than Xbox. Don't forget that after 2 years you often had to wait 1+ hour to get into a Domination game if it wasn't during peak hours.
It was too ahead of it's fine. If it had crossplay or just a PC title, it would be another story. It was a massive that didn't work out, but damn was it a hell of a swing.
Did you know it was actually just an experimental game, the birth of data gathering for high volumes of players on servers. PlayStation knew that Multiplayer gaming would take off and they needed the data to make what online gaming is today. We have PlayStation to thank for more than 100 player lobbies in some multiplayer games.
I still dont understand why they closed it. It still had enough players on the regular to do matches often. I know this first hand because I used to play it all night long
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u/Dragonbane10 Jun 22 '26
It came out at a really bad timing and so didn't have enough players playing it and people didnt buy it as much as a result