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The story
The 5ch “Hardware & Industry” (Geha) board lit up over the fact that pretty much every game ever featured in Sony’s PS5 promotional “Special Lineup” has gone on to flop. Posters pointed to cases where Capcom and Falcom titles saw their fortunes turn around the moment they switched to multi-platform releases on the Switch 2 and got dropped from the lineup, fueling talk of a “reverse jinx” curse — get removed from the list, and suddenly you succeed. Opinions were split, though, on how to read the fact that no PS5-exclusive title has hit a million copies, and on what’s really behind the slump.
What people said
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Almost all of them go on to succeed
Getting removed = guaranteed success — this jinx actually works, lmao
Hey Special Lineup team, are you watching? Just go remove everything right now and save them
Sounds like the one-shot spinoff 'Death Eraser' lol (a Death Note parody where erasing a name saves someone instead of killing them)
It's so far gone they can't even cut their losses anymore.
Yeah, it's not selling worldwide either — Europe's down 60%, so it's a flop there too.
This thing is seriously cursed.
Can't write it in without seeing its face and knowing its real name though.
Nope, seriously not one 🙄
Zero of them have hit a million copies.
I don't think there's been even one in six years.
It's become a console with no flagship game to its name.
Then pulling out wouldn't be a problem.
Good, good.
They can still squeeze royalties and milk the clueless through PS Plus though.
Ace Combat 8 was next, wasn't it?
Everything else turned into a Death Note of disappointment.
This one's the strongest case by far, lol
Truly the reverse-jinx GOAT
so at this point the list basically just proves how far PlayStation has fallen.
I narrowed it down to only the appealing PS5-exclusive titles:
【2026】
【2027】
You think that's funny? That joke bombed.
Seriously, no eye for quality lol
At the end of the day he's just a bandwagoner, so he can only pick stuff that looks famous.
Never heard of this game, but looking it up, apparently it's coming to Switch 2 too
https://youtu.be/0b7Qqvx-mDw?si=Lnl_gt23VQjnlaCI
If I'm being generous, maybe he only looks at titles that get physical releases…
Wait, hold on — isn't this the same guy who kept yapping about 'digital downloads,' on a PS5 that's axing discs?
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The “Special Lineup” is a promotional campaign PlayStation runs periodically, spotlighting games it wants to push — but since many of the titles featured have gone on to post disappointing sales after release, “Death Note” and “reverse jinx” curse jokes have become a running gag on the thread. This time, posters pointed to Capcom and Falcom titles whose fortunes turned around the moment they switched to Switch 2 multi-platform releases and dropped off the lineup, which got people excited about the jinx’s "reproducibility." Opinions were split, though, on whether the slump stems from the PS5 market shrinking overall or from the individual games themselves falling short. Worth noting: no direct causal link between being featured in the lineup and poor sales has actually been demonstrated, and the sales figures cited in the thread are largely hearsay and impression rather than hard data. It’s harmless fun as a running joke, but there’s not much to back it up as fact.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry/Geha) thread “[Great News] Every Single Game Ever Featured in the Special Lineup Has Failed 😭“.
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