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Square Enix Admits Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy "Undershot" Initial Sales Expectations Nintendo Life The company will "continue to work" on expanding sales by Share: Image: Square Enix Square Enix representative director Yosuke Matsuda has admitted that has "undershot" the company's initial sales expectations. The company has just released the outline of its Q3 financial results briefing (thanks, ), in which Matsuda says: The HD Games sub-segment launched Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy in Q3.
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Despite strong reviews, the game's sales on launch undershot our initial expectations. However, he adds that initiatives started in November have caused sales to grow since the start of the year and that the company will "continue to work" on expanding sales to "make up for the title's slow start".
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy has had a fairly positive reaction from the gaming press, although Nintendo fans were unfortunately saddled with a cloud version of the game. , we had this to say: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is a great game, a fun and colourful adventure full of excellent writing, brilliant acting and plenty of wacky action and exploration to dig into. However, this Switch cloud version renders pretty much any praise we could lavish upon it entirely inconsequential as it serves up a truly messy, laggy and unreliable experience — even when played via our super solid, ultra fast internet connection.
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It is, in short, a disastrous and ridiculously expensive way to play through a game that deserves so much better. Pick this one up on another platform if you can and steer well clear of this mess.
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Square Enix's previous Marvel game, based on the popular Avengers series, was a and disappointment. [source , via ] Related Games Share: About Damien has over a decade of professional writing experience under his belt, as well as a repulsively hairy belly.
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Rumours that he turned down a role in The Hobbit to work on Nintendo Life are, to the best of our knowledge, completely and utterly unfounded. Comments ) Yea cause what switch users needed was a cloud version on a handheld device Bought it on pc last steam-sale, had fun with it.
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altho it's not for everyone. game is incredibly repetitive , and if you're not a fan of the guardians of the galaxy you should skip this game.
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Just because this game is way too story driven and prioritzes the story over gameplay. non-the-less , extremely polished game that fans will love. Is Square Enix the new Capcom?
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I feel like they say almost all of their games 'underperform', even if they sell over a million in some cases.
To me, it's clear that their business decisions aren't doing them any favours, and they may be putting too much budget in the wrong places and needing sales to be too high.
Licensed games probably aren't working in their favour, especially not anything Disney owned.
To me, it's clear that their business decisions aren't doing them any favours, and they may be putting too much budget in the wrong places and needing sales to be too high.
Licensed games probably aren't working in their favour, especially not anything Disney owned.
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Damn shame. It’s my favorite game of the last year. I bought this for PS5, and it was one of the most fun games I've played in a long time.
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I can't image trying to play this on the Switch. Can't be shocked when Marvel's Avengers, the other Square Enix Marvel game, was a disaster. Loved this game, story was great and gameplay was a blast too
Looked incredible on ps5 Oh.
Looked incredible on ps5 Oh.
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I completely forgot about this game… looked fun, but I’m honestly fed up with all kind of superheroes and appropriate comics… I would have bought it if it was on Switch. Cloud version didnt sell well? No sh*t Starlord I assumed there was some sort of famed conspiracy Disney paid advertisements because this game was discussed EVERYWHERE at great length and every media site used the carefully coordinated images that only showed Star Lord with his mask on so the hoi polloi didn’t say “but that isn’t chris pratt duhhhhh” felt like Kane & Lynch lmao Great game that suffered from people associating it with Avengers (which in itself is a decent solo player game) which got hammered for the after campaign stuff….
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Cloud version games seem to suffer from that association too. Many switch gamers own another console and don’t like it when a company treats switch users like second class gamers….
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And then another group of people can’t get over it when the characters “don’t look like the movies” those three issues all add up and you have a fair chunk avoiding the game even if it’s good in its own right. I think the Marvel Avengers hurt this game.
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I had no interest after playing the slog fest that Avengers was, but I might eventually check it out if on a deep sale. They should focus on making games fun to play, less repetitive and loose the dang loot crap.
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I am okay with getting cool upgrades etc, but if I have to play something over and over for "loot", then I am 1000% out. As an adult I only have so much time to play so what I play needs to be fun and give me some sort of feeling of progression.
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Square Enix needs to go back to focusing on making Japanese games, aka what they're good at.
Capcom was going through a lot of these problems 15 years ago, by chasing after the American market too hard,
and look where they are now! Hopefully they go back to Deus Ex then! This is about all versions.
Capcom was going through a lot of these problems 15 years ago, by chasing after the American market too hard,
and look where they are now! Hopefully they go back to Deus Ex then! This is about all versions.
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I don't understand how their "super awesome mega ultra internet" as they love to say doesn't work for any cloud games? Given I only tried the Hitman demo on my ultra mega normal wifi, but it was certainly playable. Do the newer cloud based games run worse or something?
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Or is Hitman just slower paced enough to not notice as much? Nintendo fans were unfortunately saddled with a cloud version of the game.
No %##%_& Sherlock and you wonder why it did putty poor.
No %##%_& Sherlock and you wonder why it did putty poor.
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Then make it a physical release. Deus Ex died for this.
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What an utterly misguided and foolish bunch. This game did not benefit from Square Enix releasing Marvel's Avengers the year before, that really hurt this game from the go as getting another one so soon after a bad one put people off.
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But even then I don't know if SE is reliable when they say a game underperformed, they say it about every game. I remember when the first Tomb Raider reboot came out, they sold 3.4 million copies in a month and said the sales were below expectations.
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And this means a whole lot of nothing coming from SE. of course it did, because Square has crazy unrealistic sales goals.
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Same for Tomb Raider or Deus Ex or Hitman. I knew they would claim this BS I bought my copy in Black Week and still didn't open it. Too much games and not enough time Played on ps4, good game.
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Didn’t even care about the cloud version for switch. I think this cloud version should stop at one point, with a powerful switch.
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Maybe it would sell decently if they didn’t cheap out on the switch port!
While everyone is currently hating on nft’s and microtransactions
They should also be hating on cloud ports because they will never work. Hey SquEnix, you know what would have sold really well?
While everyone is currently hating on nft’s and microtransactions
They should also be hating on cloud ports because they will never work. Hey SquEnix, you know what would have sold really well?
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This was my favorite announcement at E3 this year. I did not understand all the negative reactions at that time. I got the game for Christmas on my PS5 and it really is a great game.
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Hope more people take a chance on it. im not suprised the game was a disappointment if it at least had multiple characters i would probably like it more than i did thats why prefer avengers over it because at least avengers delivered on it Its because they did dumb decision for switch users has cloud version why make switch users suffer like this they could have done digital release instead there would have been more sales.
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I'd bet this was mostly due to how much Avengers sucked. They didn't do enough to make sure people knew this was it's own thing. It's a shame too, I absolutely loved the PS5 version; wish we would get more linear big budget games like this.
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They have a history of saying this with their big-name titles, because companies (particularly their investors) expect every game to simultaneously make all the money available in the world and also make more money than the last product. A game can sell millions and that will never be enough for the greedy slugs that run these companies.
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Crying how the game didn't do so well when all we got was air? Yeah nice try Square Enix, until you release an actual game that I could play on the go then will you get my dollars. In a few months they'll be crying how Kingdom Hearts collection on Switch did not live up to expectation, yeah cause everyone was asking for cloud do they?
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It's an OK game, no replayabilty once you know the story. It's not James Gunn's version of the characters and it should have been.
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I hope they make a Lego Guardians of the Galaxy game once the final movie releases. Admit KH Cloud did bad on Switch while you are at it Got it on ps5.
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Highly recommended as one of the best all-round games of last year. I’m going to get this on PS once I upgrade to 5, as it looks really good.
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Kind of a bummer that it’s underselling. They say this about every game they release.
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I had actually forgot this even came to Switch. I think Square should stop focusing on graphics for lower budget games.
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Bravely Default 2 and Octopath was considered a success right? Those were Switch focused releases too that went to other platforms at a later date.
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This kind of game would have done well on the Switch IMO. PS5 and XSX players expect graphical showcases which this doesn't seem to live up to (kinda stuck in PS4 era style).
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Still planning to get it on the PS4 on a sale someday as my good friend has high praise for it. Considering how popular the Switch has become, it may have helped theirs sales incredibly if Switch received an actual version of the game. Leave A Comment Hold on there, you need to to post a comment...
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