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On 5ch’s Hardware & Industry (“Console Wars”) board, a thread went up for the annual year-end tradition of nominating candidates for the board’s “Crappy Game of the Year.” The thread quickly became dominated by one title: the big-budget action game Marvel’s Wolverine, reportedly made on a ¥48 billion (roughly $320 million) budget. Users piled on with reports of rampant bugs, the game being beatable in about 15 hours, and clips of glitches like trees that simply won’t cut down — and with no real rival candidate emerging, the mood turned into an outright “Wolverine landslide.” The discussion also spilled over into trade-in prices, comparisons of unit sales against Spider-Man 2 (20,039 vs. 324,710 copies), and worries about distribution once physical discs are phased out, keeping the thread churning with mixed opinions throughout.
What people said
Empty-Content Division
Bugs Division
Congrats on winning the 'Stating the Obvious' award
Don't stop at just three
Though yeah, Wolverine's running away with it
Guess the trees in Wolverine's world are tougher than adamantium
What are these trees even made of, if claws forged from a metal hard enough to survive a nuclear blast can't cut through them?
Nice try, hater. It's a world made entirely out of adamantium
・Garbage QTEs
・Beatable in 15 hours
・Monotonous combat
・Not enough content
・Fart effects
What game is this?
・4 hours of it is cutscenes
Even with that extra hint it's still hard to guess
Hint: development budget of ¥48 billion
Well, on the Console Wars board people just nominate games they personally hate, not necessarily objectively crappy ones
Wasn't last year's verdict Wilds (Monster Hunter Wilds)?
Crashes if you hover the cursor over gear
Checks for DLC over 100 times a second
Water-gun hit animation triggers an infinite crash loop
A UI that tells you to 'rotate the W key'
And that's just off the top of my head
She said the bug count feels like something out of an indie game
There was that 'spot the anomaly' game trend a while back — maybe the right way to enjoy Wolverine is as a 'spot the bug' game
Surprised how much detail they put into the map areas outside the playable zone
Seems like they genuinely gave up on the open world at some point
July 23: Splatoon Raiders — ¥3,000
Sept 15: Wolverine — ¥3,500
Wonder which one hits the bargain bin first
Huh? Isn't Wolverine going for ¥2,500?
Lol
Guess Wolverine takes the 'clearance cart' award too
Calling Raiders' sales 'bad' sets an insane bar
What about Wolverine sitting at 20,000 copies and already marked down to clearance (the green discount tag Japanese game shops slap on deep markdowns)?
I mean, Raiders sold 470,000 copies
If that counts as 'not selling,' then the PS5 library is nothing but flops
Though this is probably exactly the kind of thing that killed off the KOTY threads before
Sounds bitter, lol
Why not just admit it already? 🤭
Wasn't it basically a Console Wars-style vibe from the start anyway? Getting all high-and-mighty about hunting down the 'true' crappy game is what ruined it
Splatoon Raiders — 660,000 units cumulative
Down 85%
If we're comparing cumulative totals
Spider-Man 2 — 324,710
Wolverine — 20,039
That makes Wolverine down 94% ♥
Is Sony seriously going to be okay?
Are they seriously betting it all on a sex-and-gore-censored, downgraded, 30fps 'stuck living with your parents' version of GTA6()? 🥺
They'll have to completely pull it from store shelves in a little over a year
And Wolverine's just sitting there as clearance-tagged dead stock
What are they seriously going to do about this????
They already said the code-in-a-box format is sticking around, you uninformed clown
No, the official side hasn't said a single word about that
Do you have an actual solid source, or is this just some sketchy site's wishful fantasy???
Also, even Wolverine is buried in unsold stock
There's no way retailers would carry garbage with that kind of garbage format, lol
Retailers have every right to just not stock it too, lol
Now you know exactly who's been killing the KOTY threads
Ar nosurge was trash too, remember
Just give it up already — Wolverine's winning by a landslide on bug count alone
Then is there anything worse than Wolverine?
Background and key points of this discussion
“Crappy Game of the Year” (KOTY) is an unofficial tradition dating back to the 2000s on 2ch/5ch, in which users vote each year on the most disappointing games, and the Hardware & Industry (“Console Wars”) board runs its own genre-by-genre nominations every year-end. This time, Marvel’s Wolverine dominated the thread as posters piled on about its bugs, its short 15-hour clear time, and its high development budget, with almost no other contender emerging — leaving the thread with an overwhelming sense that “Wolverine wins in a landslide.” That said, as commenters in the thread themselves point out, KOTY picks tend to get tangled up with plain like-or-dislike toward specific hardware or titles, and the thread often wraps up each year without a clear, well-reasoned verdict. It’s also worth noting that the sales figures and trade-in prices cited here are largely drawn from social media and aggregator sites, and may not necessarily match official manufacturer figures.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry / “Console Wars”) thread “Three months left in the year — let’s pick this year’s Console Wars board Crappy Game of the Year nominees.”
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