What I don't get is why Sony lovers are carrying water so much over this series. Practically nobody has actually played the fucking games. Who cares how many units were moved, bundle or not, if nobody plays it and nobody talks about it (except apparently to brag about how many units have moved)?
It's the most astroturfed game series I've ever seen, yet people (who likely never played it) are still singing its praises like it's some incredible gift to gaming.
When I say "nobody talks about it," I mean no conversations, no memes, nothing. "Everybody" knows Bioshock's midway twist. Everybody knows who SHODAN is. Everybody recognizes Pikachu. There are endless memes about all of those. Literally the only images I've ever seen posted about Horizon are either the lead character's hideously ugly mug (generally making fun of "her" masculine and/or puffy appearance) or pointing to sales figures and wondering "wtf?" Nobody ever references its plot (i.e. no one's ever played it, and so such memes or references would fly over everyone's heads). It's had zero cultural impact.
I'm pretty sure there's some ridiculous stats showing only about 50%-ish players who've played it ever made it past the tutorial section (it grants a trophy, and PS4/PS5 are mandatory-online consoles). Note that player count includes people who booted the disc once just to make sure their consoles worked, then never touched it again. Something like 13% actually finished the game. That's abysmal. Practically 9 out of 10 players hated it or got so bored with it that they never bothered to finish it. How the fuck can they consider that a success?
