PlayStation Store: July’s top downloads

Ghost of Tsushima is one of the best open world games this gen and Iron Man VR is the best Superhero VR game. Both well deserved. Tsushima is great, but it’s so enjoyable. It wrecks any Assassin’s Creed game this gen. The exploration and side activities/quests are excellent. Combat imo is vastly superior to Sekiro. It’s weighty and simply the best AAA swordplay i have ever seen.

Idgaf about anything Mercenary says, i still think it’s shameful that Dreams hasn’t sniffed the top 20 since its launch week. The game SHOULD be a hit. User creations should be plastered all over the Internet. Sony did a poor job marketing the game and they were scared to publicize the very creations that would bring the most attention. I know Nintendo is strict, but why didn’t they publicize recreations of their own IPs? I posted a Ghost of Tsushima creation to Twitter a month after Dreams came out and it got 500k views. More views than most of Sony’s own Twitter advertisements. I got 40k views posting someone’s Wipeout clone, and thousands of views on other user recreations. I only have 600 followers and i did that, for free. Imagine if Sony focused it’s efforts and put more than a low budget, grass-roots advertising campaign in? The Pilgrim and the Resogun clone were arguably the best things i played week one yet i never saw them in advertising. Truth is, Microsoft would’ve turned Dreams into a Minecraft-like creation Juggernaut if they had the game. If somehow Microsoft didn’t ruin it with MTs they would’ve put Dreams out there as thee vital game that every XB owner needed. It has a built-in YouTube-like social system as well. It screams cultural phenomenon and VR implementation was but a blip on the radar. Poor Mm, they spend an entire generation on the most important game this decade and it sells a fraction of what their previous IP sold. Even LBP3, essentially a by the numbers 3rd party effort from Sumo appears to have been a larger sales success. Here’s hoping PS5 gives the game legs. PS4 is a monster with 110m install. Dreams should’ve hit harder.

Pistol Whip better be here next time on VR, it has a 93 Metacritic atm. PSVR has been rolling lately. Too many games.

It’s embarrassing to see Path of Exile not making the f2p list. Probably the best f2p on console.

It shows how the industry is going that the entire DLC list is MT related, for games with in-game currency/MTs. Actual quality DLC just can’t compete. Expect more GaaS and more MTs, particularly with the dev costs next gen. P2W/egregious in-game currency it all exists bc people allow it.