An utterly colossal entity in the wider gaming space, Roblox finally arrived on PlayStation platforms roughly one week ago, and it's already proving to be an absolutely massive hit. The difficult-to-define title — which is essentially a vehicle for player-created games — is currently fighting it out with Call of Duty and Fortnite at the very top of the 'player engagement' tree on PS5 and PS4.
This impressive info comes from Circana (formerly NPD) analyst Mat Piscatella, who explains on Twitter: "According to Circana's Player Engagement Tracker, during its launch week Roblox ranked 3rd in percentage of PlayStation players that played the title at least once. Only Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Fortnite ranked higher."
Now, we're not going to sit here and pretend that we understand the full appeal of Roblox. but it's safe to say that there are very, very few games that could go toe-to-toe with juggernauts like Call of Duty and Fortnite in terms of popularity. Sony will no doubt be rubbing its hands together at the prospect of having yet another seemingly unstoppable title available on PlayStation.
Have you given Roblox a shot? Do you think it'll maintain this momentum in the future? Keep an eye on your kids in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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You would think this could go a ways towards filling a CoD shaped hole on the balance sheet.
Assuming it stays popular and nobody buys the dev in the next 10 - 15 years of course.
I played it with my daughter last week. Really showed the potential of dreams if it was properly managed.
The top 3 most played games this week, I'd soon rather get diarrhea
What was the reason Sony never allowed it in the past?
@IAmAshCohen17 Essentially the protection of kids that play it, on the grounds of potentially predatory microtransactions. While most people may say that Fortnite is full of kids, it also has a minimum age rating. I believe Roblox either does not have a minimum age, or has one that's lower than Fortnite.
I had a feeling it was gonna already gonna be big when they announced this and everyone said it probably gonna be that big.
Who's laughing now I guess
unbelievable. HOW.
this games looks so unattractive. its like a poor man lego style with tons of random stock 3d models patched together. its a visual mess!
The amount of Robux I have purchased over the years for my kids is enough to buy two PS5's. It is a microtransaction nightmare.
Made the news in Philly, as a predator successfully met an underaged kid via Roblox. He was arrested. Never tried it, had Lincoln logs as a kid.
@BeerIsAwesome ahh I see. Makes a lot of sense.
I don't get it. I downloaded it to try it but I feel like it's just a janky mess without direction. I feel like I'm missing the point of it.
This “game” is the bane of my existence. My 9 year old stepson has a nuclear breakdown at least once a week about losing money (chores allowance he “never spent”) on this game. It’s SUPER predatory, and it is everything that is wrong with the gaming landscape.
@Sarcasmatwork Exactly, it's the predatory nature of the games in Roblox that are so ridiculous. Mainly because it primarily targets kids and shapes them to crave meaningless nonsensical garbage cosmetics for egregious amounts of money.
It's essentially a training program to condition expectations toward the predatory ambitions of the larger gaming industry as a whole. Ala Fortnite and Call of Duty, lmfao
So, in essence, Roblox success is great for Fortnite, COD, Genshin garbage etc. Basically, any mobile originated app for kids uses the same predation model. It's frankly disgusting.
We shouldn't be celebrating garbage like this benefiting the balance sheet of Sony. The idea that as long as Sony is raking in money is good for all of us is just madness. Shareholders only want infinite growth. If they see revenue potential to be higher with predatory schemes, they will focus the majority of efforts toward these schemes to continue the greed-based model. The nonsensical view that these schemes will fund the dwindling and consolidated bloated budget and dev time, sequel factory that Sony's first party output has become is just not true. We see this right now, albeit Sony is way too late to the live service scheme party, we now have a post Spiderboy game future where all we know to be on the near horizon are live service schemes. Despite the fact that new ones are failing left and right. Sony shareholders would rather waste millions of dollars and years of production time to maybe land one successful scheme, rather than continue a pedigree and diversity of portfolio that ultimately garnered them the superiority in the console marketplace to begin with.
Games like Fortnite, Roblox, COD, Genshin, and those that allowed themselves to fall victim to that predation for a friggin character or weapon skin are ultimately to thank for this.
Downloaded it, had a quick look and then deleted it. Have no idea what the fuss is?
Tried it, played rubbish with a controller and a lot of "games" dont even work on console, uninstalled it and wont try again.
I feel incredibly sad for this generation's youth/kids. I don't care that I sound like an old man, but think about this: We grew up with Spyro, Ratchet & Clank, Kingdom Hearts, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot.. all wildly different games that were made with passion and love.
This.. Roblox.. and Fortnite.. is soulless and only out for constant money. Such a darn shame.
I'll wait for a PS5 native and a PSVR2 version. I will keep asking them to make a native version.
"played the title at least once"
What kind of garbage useless metric is that? A new free to try game comes out last week, people see it and download it, then delete it like a few people above did, then go back to playing other games.
Show me "hours spent playing" then we can discuss how popular it is. Or how may days per week people play it. "At least once" for a new title is useless. 🤷♂️
@Shepherd_Tallon if a saudi prince comes out of nowhere and buys them there wouldn't be any changes tho, SNK is doing pretty good lol. If tencent buys them there wouldn't be any problems either.
@Mauzuri because you don’t like those games doesn’t make them soulless. Those are still more creative than the average AAA game. People have been saying stuff like this since the days Call of Duty got big too.
@Mauzuri right now I'm thankful I grew up playing ratchet & clank and god of war and not spyro or crash gotta be honest 😂
@GymratAmarillo I tend to agree. It's only when a platform holder buys someone out that I feel myself clench a little.
@Mauzuri to be fair there was also things like club penguin, neopets, toontown
but they were all computer games
This game is pretty unique in that it appeals to the very young I think. Younger than even Minecraft. I think it's most kids first game nowadays.
No idea what the draw is to say a three year old, but it's definitely there.
There's some absolutely amazing stuff on Roblox, I don't really get the hate. My kids have played on it for years, have had a lot of enjoyment from it and co-operated with people all over the world in making content for games. Yes, there are issues with it and you need to keep an eye on it. They can ban accounts at the drop of a hat for very little reason.
Not spent much on it at all. It's not hard to lock it down, or better still, teach your kids how to spend money wisely.
Or, use/play the good version, Dreams
@Grimwood It's easier to get into than Dreams, mouse and keyboard help! Saying that I wish Dreams was ported to PC, I'd have used it.
@nomither6
Oh yeah, I forgot about those. There was also Habbo Hotel I believe.. I only played that for a few days before I got bored and got back to my New Super Mario Bros game on the DS haha!
How do you check what the most played game is?
@Mauzuri I’m with you about kids these days not appreciating gaming like we did growing up with Crash, Spyro etc. Two of my sons mainly play just Fortnite, Roblox and R6 Siege. When it’s Christmas and their birthdays they spend all their Xbox gift cards on battle passes and cosmetics. I’d sooner rather buy a game in a sale or a new release like Alan Wake 2 which I’m buying at the end of this month.
On topic, I’ve heard over the years that there’s plenty of nonces on Roblox so it’s worth maybes keeping an eye on who your kids talk to and who they message when playing the game. I’ve put parental control on my youngest’s Series S.
Maybe the employees revolt and change the situation for the better?
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/17/roblox-tells-employees-they-have-to-come-to-office-three-days-a-week.html
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