Well yeah, it's very niche game for NT fans and their games first and foremost, just like Remedy games, except they're more appealing in terms of gameplay cuz most of their games are TPS.
I liked combat in the first game a lot, but they've gone above and beyong to make it better in the second game with their performance capture. We'll see how good it actually is in a few days.
But it's not just comat, subject matter and everything related to it is also big part of the game and it's also not for everyone. People like boring BS and tedious af traversal, world exploration and backtracking, repetitive and monotonous combat like in the last 2 God of War games, so games like this sell better.
It might be their last game, literally, especially if not a lot of people will actually buy it. They should've launched the game on all platforms incl PS5, but people in MS are stupid, greedy and braindead idiots.
Oh, I think there's no one here who thinks that the game will sell well, cuz it won't and to put it mildly, it's not for everyone. It'll for sure sell less than Alan Wake 2, Control and Quantum Break.