Three Major Xbox Releases Were In The 'Top Cross-Platform Downloads' Last Week

Kudos to Cyberpunk for managing to be up there as a single player this long after release. And an initially disastrous release at that. The updates sure helped, but I'm not sure they'd have ever gotten rid of the bad reputation without Edgerunners. Goes to show how important the adaptions are becoming. Like it's still baffling to me that Xbox didn't have a Fallout plan in place after that show. Even Halo had a good "plan" in place to pull in new gamers from the show (the show was just bad). I'm also surprised we haven't seen anything from Doom or Elder Scrolls or heck a Fable fantasy show would go hard. I think I had heard something about Gears and that's also a really good one potentially. Of course it all depends on if the IP is handled well and the show works, but when it works it can really work. It is so impressive to me that Cyberpunk came back from that launch and now an update (not even a major expansion) puts it in the top downloaded games up there with college football.

Remember guys nobody wanted to believe this analytic firm a few weeks ago!

@WildConcept6 100%. I loved edge runners and made me go back to it. Didn’t finish but after seeing Netflix s2 announcement I’ve got itch to go back to finish it. Think they need to use multi media to flesh out worlds now. When it works it works

I tried mecha break and found the game mechanics pretty back. Controls are also weird and unresponsive. Graphics are also not good. I guess if you played armoured core VI it is difficult to find any other game to match it in terms of gameplay quality.

Cyberpunk 2077 was always a good game, even on release. Bought it for Xbox on day 1. Only if you had a Series X, PS5 or a good PC though. Unfortunately many people bought the disastrous previous Gen versions.
It's much better now of course.

@brettvsgodzilla It's getting new people into gaming. That's what the industry is really struggling with and what the console market especially is suffering from. Without new blood these exuberant development costs lead to all these cuts and layoffs. It's also what makes everything costs more to the existing consumers in the market (not that other market conditions aren't also playing a role). Marketing means so much more than ad campaigns; it means communicating value to consumers. As far as IP is concerned that value requires a multimedia approach to bring in new people that have never even heard of the IP before or who are new to the medium. For example, a really, really good book adaption brings in new readers to that book. Not as many as those that saw the movie, but a good amount and it's significant to the market. Good video game adaptions have the same effect and if properly poised they can really captaialize on the situation. Like if Cyberpunk was still in its launch state when Edgerunners came out then it'd have been game over. But it wasn't. The show made people go back to it or start playing it for the first time at the right time (can't remember if the expansion was already out but it couldn't have been far behind either). As a result it's enjoying a lot of success and in the long term will be remembered fondly. We need a lot more of this in the industry to start to solve all the problems we've gotten due to oversaturization. These things can't just happen, they have to lineup. The fallout TV did good numbers for the mobile game and Fallout 76 and even Fallout 4, but it wasn't a huge boon to Microsoft or the wider industry because there wasn't anything new to do (to buy and play). There wasn't even a big fallout 4 expansion or new anniversary edition. Or heck a remake or remaster or old games. Like when I was writing argumentative essays in university, I was told good arguments end with some imperative statement imploring the reader to do something next in regards to the argument. So let's say I wrote about a bad law, well then I should end by telling readers to go out and speak to their senators. Well, Fallout made a great TV show and then didn't even have senators for you to talk to. They obviously shouldn't have ended by telling people to buy XYZ game (though a "based on XYZ game" does effectively do that and again Microsoft collabing with Amazon on GP deals or fallout game deals does that too), but they definitely needed something to go to. Cyberpunk Edgerunners worked so well because after watching the show you could hop into a stable game and get hyped for (or if it was already out just play) the new expansion and major gameplay overhaul.