New Prince of Persia game

It was £45 wasn't it?

I took a month of Ubisoft plus and played it that way and I imagine quite a few others did too which will harm sales.

For what it’s worth, Metroid Dread, Hollow Knight and both Ori games are sitting at around 3 millions copies sold, each. The genre just doesn’t sell huge numbers, unfortunately. As awesome as all those games are.

I don’t even think Prince of Persia was badly priced. It’s great value for money in terms of quality and content. Hollow Knight just happens to be ridiculously good value.

I guess the ‘Roguelite’ genre has kinda stunted the growth of this one. A quick google says the rather excellent Dead Cells has sold more than 10 million copies alone, which is almost as much as all the games I mentioned above, combined.

I wonder how much of an impact it was that days before it came out, some Ubisoft exec made that statement about how we all need to get used to not feeling like we own the games we buy. Really felt like an act of self sabotage saying that right before the most critically acclaimed they've had in a long time comes out

I feel a bit bad saying it, but I do have this vague feeling that a 2D platformer isn't worth as much money as a 'proper' 3d game.

It might just be a personal perference thing, or it might be due to places like Steam being full of thousands of 2D platformers, which are generally lower priced than big 3d games.

'value' in games is always a weird thing to try and quantify though, given all the factors involved. It's not really something I usually calculate or actively care about, given I already have more than enough games I could play. It's more just an impulse.

There are obviously big exceptions, such as Mario 2D games, and you get occasional big break out hits, but for some reason looking at this I'd expect it to be a lot cheaper than something like the latest full Assassin's Creed game. *shrug*

It might be just me though. Despite loving Prince of Persia, and despite all the great reviews and you guys saying it's amazing, I really have no particular impetus to grab this as it looks more like a Dead Cells / Hollow Knight game than a PoP one. It has made me reinstall and start replaying Sands of Time though.
I might pick it up when it drops to $5.


It's such a shame really. Ubisoft pump out their big AAA production-line map-clearing Ubi-games and we complain. But they bring out a bunch of interesting little side projects like their Ubi-Arts games and they get great reviews and not many people buy them. I'm part of the problem.

Having had a look, I think you’re right! All my favourites, like Shovel Knight, Spelunky, Fez, Rayman Legends. All around 2 - 4 million.

It would appear Mario is the exception to the rule.

And Dead Cells.

I enjoyed the demo but I’m also in the wait until it’s £25-30 club.
To be fair I do that for every game but that feels more like a fair price than a bargain somehow.

Full price is 70 quid now for the most part, this came in at 45 I think (although it had a more expensive early access version).

Maybe but I ain't paying more than £40 for anything still (and very rarely even that).

I feel I'm in the same boat. The very positive word of mouth might have swayed me to pay £45 for this if I hadn't just bought Tekken 8, but I likely would have jumped on this right away at £25-30.

Not sure avatar is worth it. It's shiny looking but the combat is wank.

Counterpoint: combat is basically ok.

If you liked clearing the bases in Far Cry you’ll like this.

I always go 100 per cent in this style of game with no guide. Should be fine !

Finished the story a while ago, hoping to finish of the Plat tonight.
Enjoyed it a lot but wanting to move on to something else now.

And done.