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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report (www.ign.com)

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[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think there is some confusion here. The game genre is "2d platformer," I wasn't referring to where people can play it. It isn't the most popular genre of gaming, and it's quite different from ubisofts' other titles.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

What do you even mean? Hollow Knight was a massive success, so was Bloodstained, Ori, Metroid Dread, etc. People can't stop memeing that Silk song is not releasing because they refuse to forget about it, Ubi's reputation is just in the gutter so to capture the audience that enjoys these games again they have to do multiple good things, not just one and give up.

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago

Those games did well, it doesn't mean the genre is among the most popular and i bet they didn't approach those level of sales. I wasn't throwing shade, that's just facts. I also mentioned ubis or reputation adding to this.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io -2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, no, I understood it. I'm saying that there are similar 2d platformers on those same platforms (look, it's not my fault language recycles words for things) that did much, much better.