It's a game and games are nice. why can't it be on HN? HNers shouldn't play games? This is a great AAA title from a famous franchise of a famous company. Ofcourse everyone is excited about it!

Many HN readers grew up with this franchise so they're invested. And surprisingly, the devs managed to make a game so good that it would be considered top 50 of all time. This thread is mostly just a bunch of excited fans looking forward to playing the game.

HN just likes some games more than others. Will we see a thread for Horizon Zero Dawn or Last of Us? No. Will we see one for a Factorio sequel? Definitely.

It really shouldn't be, but large events that a lot of people on here are interested in is always gonna make a splash.

Especially since a lot of people here who are interested in it are probably not interested in participating in gaming-related social media.

Same goes for huge news events where loads of people here who usually don't pay attention to news suddenly all want to pay attention to one item; it's natural to do so on the only news community they usually engage with, even if it doesn't actually make sense for that community as a whole (as this community is largely defined by NOT having that content.)

This marks the highly anticipated release of a new piece of consumer software for one of the most widely-adopted FreeBSD-based operating system.