Black Myth: Wukong Is Now One Of The Fastest-Selling Games Ever

@stickemup: Honestly, I'd love to see someone try and get it running on the Switch.

@stickemup:

It there was a 'Minecraft' graphical setting in Black Myth: Wukong, the Switch might be able to manage 5 frames per second and then it's circuits would fry!

@plurmp: I personally find myself bitter about the situation not because the game is selling well, but rather we consider it selling well, even though the majority of sales come from 1 country. Games were often deemed massive succusses once they obtain major worldwide appeal, not just because it was insanely popular in one region. It even seems more less so when that country contains a massive population to boost itself from the get go, and a country known for having a corrupt government and less than moral standards. The fact that almost 95% of what has been talked about or spread the word about the game has been silly controversies, and both sides turning things political, I can't even say interest outside of China has even been justified for the game itself rather the "hot takes" surrounding it. OP of the comment was right, media, marketing, discussion, over games has such a focus on sales numbers and player count as actual metrics to judge a game, finding more interest in controversies and dramas surrounding it, while YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, pay people for this engagement and "hot topics", people aren't even discussing THE GAME. Even "news" sites like Gamespot now treat games like stocks instead of pieces of art smh.

If people were talking about the game without needing to bring up controversies and numbers showed its being popular worldwide, I could see this meaning the game has done well and is appealing to many. But frankly theres to much BS to consider that.

@plurmp: I tend to root for the underdog, and China is anything but that. Influencers and the media act like the biggest games from there are a way bigger deal than they are, because they feel they can get a slice of the gigantic pie that is the Chinese market. Then gamers get fooled into buying games they would've never cared about otherwise.

There are actually underdog games from China that will never get talked about, because they aren't as big there so there's no money to be made from talking about them overseas. It's a massive grift, and I'm not even talking about the culture war angle, although that is another way to attract attention and clicks.

Games marketing and discourse is at the worst state it's ever been because of how artificial, insincere and greed-driven it's become.

@plurmp: it's a numbers game. If you have x amount of people in your country then depending on how high that number you will naturally get more people buying.

So it's not impressive 10 million sales mainly from the country of origin the games from that has had massive media hype and push behind it when from the get go you have 1 billion+ potential customers. How is this surprising or impressive to anyone when you take a step back and think instead of just seeing big number and thinking amazballs.

@judaspete: "Fistfuls of ad revenue".

You really think game journalism in this day and age is that profitable? IGN has been a punchline for as long as I can remember, so I really doubt that they're raking in the dough in the current economy.

And the more articles you post like this, the least people take you seriously and bother visiting your site, less profits from ads, and then you announce that 70% of your workers are fired. That is how it starts, especially with ai so close at replacing them.

@nilsdoen: IGN ran an article last year about reports of sexism at the Black Myth developer, Game Science. It wasn't a very compelling article and never came to anything substantial. The dev (as far as I know) never really addressed it, and the only real reaction was the usual cacophony of dumb internet melodrama that generally accompanies any public statements of sexism in the workplace. IGN put out a statement backing their writer but not otherwise pursuing the matter.

It's old news that really never mattered in the first place.

IGN doesn't, but the journo that wrote the article, will always be remembered for it, and just you watch the comments section of his future articles and his twitter.