In this period of presentations and summer fairs, among Summer Game Fest, State of Play, Xbox Games Showcase and many other events, it might be surprising that, among so many big names, the most “desired” game appears to be Astro Botwhich in the ranking drawn up by IGN Playlist has beat big titles like DOOM: The Dark Ages, Gears of War: E-Day and other.
However, there are some things to do clarifications: first of all, these are data recorded in the recent period of events, starting from the end of May to June 12th, therefore starting from the State of Play up to Ubisoft Forward.
Furthermore, these are not exactly purchase intentions given by actual reservations, because almost all the titles in the ranking reported by IGN do not yet have reservations available, except Astro Bot, which also has a closer release date than most of the other games.
The data derives from the quantity of selections recorded by IGN Playlist, which is a tracking service offered by the network in question through its website or a specific app and currently has around 43,000 subscribers, therefore not exactly a large sample, but which it can still be significant.
The IGN Playlist ranking
In short, a ranking of this kind leaves the time it finds, between methods of data collection and different expected release periods.
In any case, it may be interesting to see the ranking reported by IGN Playlist:
- Astro Bot (Sony)
- DOOM: The Dark Ages (Bethesda)
- Gears of War: E-Day (Xbox)
- Perfect Dark (Xbox)
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Ubisoft)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Kepler Interactive)
- South of Midnight (Xbox)
- Fable (Xbox)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Activision Blizzard)
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard (EA)
Among the notable details, we can see that six of the top ten titles are Xbox first party games, while practically all except Astro Bot were shown during the Xbox Games Showcase.
