Here is a reddit thread about ppl wanting to buy the game too:
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The game is so poorly received, they refunded the pre-orders, which were small in number to begin with. I believe the last number I heard less than 800 preorders nation-wide for Playstation and XBOX. I don't know about Steam, but if the console pre-orders ARE THAT LOW, than while numbers might be SLIGHTLY higher for Steam...they won't break 10,000 GUARANTEED. And even 10,000 is so abysmally low, you might as well scrap the game and hope you can have the expenses deducted via tax write-off.
Oh! Found the article(s) that said less than 800 units. One is dated to August 29th, the other to September 6th.
Also, the ONLY Japanese historian to claim Yasuke was a samurai, is that Hirayama idiot who is a proud member of the Japanese Communist party, and has already shilled for DEI trash before. Find me another Japanese historian, and then I'll listen. I mean, half of the man's "sources" are so-called "locals" in the area where Yasuke spent most of his time in Japan. In what reality is local legends taken for historical evidence? Do let me know.
The only other sources claiming Yasuke was a Samurai, is Thomas Lockley, who started all this nonsense from a fraudulent background....oh and the countless culture/pop-culture warrior nonsense...who if you read enough articles...guess who their sources are? Thomas Lockley and Hirayama. Funny how it's ONLY THESE TWO people right? All those Japanese historians who COULD be making claims and guess what? Nothing. Silence. Crickets. I've seen a few other articles of people using other sources, only a few, which I will now list here:
1) Johnathan Lopez-Vera, who in 2020 wrote A History of the Samurai: Legendary Warriors of Japan Guess what? He uses Thomas Lockley as his source. Lockley has already been outed as a liar and manipulator of the truth. He purposely mistranslated numerous Japanese texts, something that Japanese historians have called him out on. I have a link for you if you would like to see some of THAT summarized by someone else who knows the language and went into painstaking details about it.
2) E Taylor Atkins A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present - Written in 2022. I haven't read this one, but a friend of mine has a copy and he checked the bibliography for me, and the only sources are Hirayama and Lockley and believe it or not....the guy above, Johnathan Lopez-Vera. Oh! and a CNN article by someone named Emiko Jozuka in 2019, which is an interesting coincidence timing wise, considering when Lockley's book came out. Other than that article, I can find nothing about this woman except that she works at CNN.
Other than that, a few BBC articles who give no sources other than Lockley, one from France, which sites Hirayama, and something by a woman named Jacquelyne Germaine who amusingly enough, back in 2023, was running her mouth while trying to drum up some kind of interest in that Yasuke anime thing on Netflix in 2023. Lol guess what? She's a journalist LOOOOOL
They've already called Thomas Lockley and his trash book's bluff. They even discovered where he fraudulently changed Yasuke's entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and not long after, suddenly Lockley decided to remove himself from the discussion. Interesting timing I'd say. Furthermore, there isn't a single Japanese historical contemporary resource that names Yasuke as a Samurai. There is literally only 4 lines of information about the man, and NOT A SINGLE ONE SAYS SAMURAI. If he had been given that title, it would have said so. IT would say samurai, not "retainer" which is an ambiguous title that could be anything from an official horse groomer, (which was a prestigious position for peasants since you cared for a Samurai's direct war mount, meaning you had influence with him due to his horse being part of his livelihood), to a cup-bearer, which is AN EXTREMELY trusted position since important people needed someone they trusted their lives with, handling their food and drink.
Also, there isn't a single shred of evidence that Yasuke EVER saw battle. Not a single one. Nothing.
Yasuke is a nice piece of history, but people are taking it, and writing fanfiction. And it all started, (at least in the west), with Thomas Lockley's book.
I read it out of curiosity. Half of it isn't even about Yasuke, which is the funniest part. It's part philosophy, part social commentary, with bits of background information about Japan during the time. And then comes the parts that do talk about Yasuke, which have no sources listed in the text backing and supporting anything said in it. Lockley even goes into details about Yasuke's emotions and "how Yasuke felt", and "what Yasuke believed".....and how in the hell did he know any of that? How? I got rid of that trash a week after finishing it. Didn't deserve to even sit UNDER my bookshelves.
Japanese historians themselves hardly know shit!! You know why they hardly know shit? Because hardly shit was recorded.
Lockley also lies on numerous occasions, but my favorite lie in his book, and easy to debunk I mean, is claiming Yasuke served Nobunaga for "several years" and thus had time enough to be promoted to Samurai. No he didn't. He was in Japan from August 1579 to July 1582. He began serving Nobunaga ONLY in 1581, and then left Japan altogether in 1582. He served Nobunaga for only 18 months. 18 months for serving Nobunaga was just the round-up figure given and generally accepted due to a lack of concrete evidence to the contrary.
Edit: I noticed I typed the last paragraph wrong. I meant Yasuke served Oda Nobunaga for 18 months, not that he had only been in Japan for 18 months.
I don't know. Better threads don't get this level of attention, so I simply want this thread dead. It lived for way too long.
