607: Does online outrage ever affect game sales?

We didn't get a lot this week, which is interesting to me.

But this first question does tie into something because I had one of those things happen where I wake up the next day.

I'm like, God damn it.

I didn't get into it as much as we should have.

And I'll take full responsibility because the last topic of the Thursday show was about, you know, we were discussing the PS5 sales and Wolverine sales and We didn't get into what we really should have done during that segment.

And again, I'll take responsibility for it.

We didn't talk about the fact that Wolverine sold well and PS5 sold well despite all the shit we heard online.

So this question gives us a chance to dive into that because we just looked at the numbers.

We talked about the numbers.

I think we were just ready to get the fuck out.

It was the last topic we wanted to go home.

Even though we are home, but you know what I'm saying.

But when I woke up the next morning, I'm like, God damn it.

We should have really delved deeper into that.

So we'll do it now.

Thanks to Jolly Yellow Nerd.

His question is, when you look at how much people really wanted to hate the Wolverine game versus how well it seemed to sell, does that mean there's a vocal minority at game companies feel justified in ignoring because normies are going to buy anyway? Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

That's exactly it.

That's what, I mean, the numbers say it all the time, where it's like sports games and shooters do all the big numbers.

That's all in

Army games.

Yep.

And Wolverine is kind of an Army game.

We didn't get a lot this week, which is interesting to me.

But this first question does tie into something because I had one of those things happen where I wake up the next day.

I'm like, God damn it.

I didn't get into it as much as we should have.

And I'll take full responsibility because the last topic of the Thursday show was about, you know, we were discussing the PS5 sales and Wolverine sales and We didn't get into what we really should have done during that segment.

And again, I'll take responsibility for it.

We didn't talk about the fact that Wolverine sold well and PS5 sold well despite all the shit we heard online.

So this question gives us a chance to dive into that because we just looked at the numbers.

We talked about the numbers.

I think we were just ready to get the fuck out.

It was the last topic we wanted to go home.

Even though we are home, but you know what I'm saying.

But when I woke up the next morning, I'm like, God damn it.

We should have really delved deeper into that.

So we'll do it now.

Thanks to Jolly Yellow Nerd.

His question is, when you look at how much people really wanted to hate the Wolverine game versus how well it seemed to sell, does that mean there's a vocal minority at game companies feel justified in ignoring because normies are going to buy anyway? Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

That's exactly it.

That's what, I mean, the numbers say it all the time, where it's like sports games and shooters do all the big numbers.

That's all in

Army games.

Yep.

And Wolverine is kind of an Army game.