Longtime PlayStation government Shuhei Yoshida retired from the corporate on January 15, and as a part of his departure, he sat down for a prolonged interview to debate a variety of matters pertaining to his time on the gaming big. One story that stood out from his chat with Kinda Funny was in regards to the one PlayStation sport that did not promote in addition to anticipated.
He mentioned throughout interview (via Radec) that Horizon Forbidden West, a sequel to Horizon Zero Daybreak, was the one sport he was shocked to see come up brief commercially, comparatively talking.
“The one I used to be a bit shocked when it comes to the variety of models was the second Horizon sport. I beloved the primary Horizon sport and the sport did properly, and I hoped the second sport would do even higher when it comes to gross sales. The sport was greater and nice however I do not assume the second sport did as many models as the primary one,” he mentioned.
Zero Daybreak launched in 2017 and had offered greater than 20 million copies as of early 2022 throughout PlayStation and PC. In Could 2023, Sony introduced that the whole Horizon online game sequence had exceeded 32.7 million units sold, with Forbidden West promoting 8.4 million. The PC editions of each video games got here after they initially launched on console, and Forbidden West was not but on PC when the 8.4 million gross sales quantity was introduced.
The Horizon sequence additionally expanded to digital actuality with Horizon: Name of the Mountain and to the household market with Lego Horizon Adventures. Sony is now growing a Horizon on-line multiplayer sport, apparently.
Exterior of video games, a Horizon film is now in growth, following on from the cancelled TV sequence for Netflix.
Additionally throughout the Kinda Humorous interview, Yoshida talked about why the PlayStation Vita failed and why he thinks there isn’t any Bloodborne remaster.