Pro tip: Find a low budget 90s show that you didn't see in your childhood and you will most likely absolutely cringe as there won't be any nostalgia-goggles effect.
TLDW:
The budget was way higher than initially thought: $320M including advertising.
The game sold 10 million copies, only 4 million at full price.
Those 4 million copies made $80M, or $20 per copy, due to the retail cut, packaging/shipping and royalty fees.
The other 6 million copies would need to make $240M or $40 per copy in order for the game to break even, which is impossible as they were sold at a discount.
Some comments disagree on how much money Naughty Dog made from digital sales (due to being a first party studio), but even in the best case scenario, the game would barely break even.
A point that he doesn't bring up is that the European market is subject to a high VAT which hurts margins even more when a game is sold at a discount.
Did it "flop" though?
Ayo holup Harry! Deeze be yo mommas eyes, nigga.
AI-slop screams low effort. Either commit to developing woke-free games or not.
Correct on all points.
It's also due to boomers retiring en masse and starting to die off. Even if young white men weren't discriminated against, there'd still be a competency crisis of a smaller scale due to demographics.
Trump has the responsibility to change some things this time around and doesn't have the excuses he had back then (lack of experience in politics, being surrounded by backstabbing RINOs etc). He has 2 years until the midterms and must not procrastinate.
Wokeness predates gamergate and the push to substantially increase the number of diversity hires occurred in 2009 or so. Also, the real issue were faggots like Neil Cuckmann who just needed an excuse.
You can use a cloud service as an extra backup, as long as you encrypt your files with a strong password.
The funny thing is that they cancelled "The Sands of Time" remake for this.
It’s just not enough.
I'm pretty sure asmongold was managed by Night talent anyway.
It's essentially impossible for your videos to be mass recommended after the youtube algorithm was "broken" without selling your soul to one of these "talent companies". The only exception are non-political channels that were already big 5-10 years ago.
Note that Night Media is the largest one, but not the only one.
Install the blocktube extension.
Asmongold is controlled opposition/a night media puppet.
Asmongold is an anagram of Goldmason.
The UK created Saudi Arabia.
The problem isn't really the Afghans (as if the Taliban would allow their women to leave). The problem is that any MENA woman can identify as Afghani and good luck proving they aren't.
Which is what backups are for. In theory, optical media lasts longer, but in practice we don't know how accessible disc drives (which are also made of moving parts) are going to be 10 years from now.
I think another issue is that the US simply has too many malls. Suburbs/towns with a population of 50K have malls as big as European cities with a population of 500K. The average American suburb can’t sustain anything more than a strip mall and a Walmart.
I don't think so. Regressives shot themselves in the foot when they started pushing sex-negative feminism. A lot of men will put up with woke ideology if the character is hot, but not if the main character is an ugly "themmfatale" (lol).
I still expect the game to break even just because Sony fanboys don't have any other new games to play, but even they have been alienated by Sony's greed (PS5 Pro shenanigans). It's probably going to sell 5-6 million copies compared to the 10+3 million copies (Playstation + PC) of the first game.
Sony deserves to go bankrupt at this point.
And the funny thing is that the actors were underpaid and treated like shit, which is why the cast kept changing all the time. They were literally used as diversity/feminist puppets.