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How much will God of War sell lifetime?

<4 million 1 1.54%
 
4-5 million 1 1.54%
 
5-6 million 5 7.69%
 
6-7 million 4 6.15%
 
7-8 million 6 9.23%
 
8-9 million 7 10.77%
 
9-10 million 15 23.08%
 
>10 million 26 40.00%
 
Total:65
bugrimmar on 03 May 2018
pitzy272 said:
bugrimmar said:

The thing is, we're talking about two different kinds of violence. The reason GTA does so well is that it offers you freedom to do whatever you want in a semi-realistic sandbox. With that freedom, you can choose to be violent or not be, depending on your personality. It's all comical and laughable violence that you don't get nightmares from.

 

God of war, however, from the title alone, speaks volumes about the kind of violence you see in it. Kratos does such otherwordly sick stuff that it's hard for other people to stomach it. And you have no choice but to go on killing in creative ways even if you're not that type of person. Also, there is no lighthearted violence here. Kratos just screams while ripping heads off. This series is all serious drama with a subject a lot of people don't care about (mythology).

It seems very clear that you haven’t played the new GoW. This is nothing compared to the old games. I could never like them due to the excessive violence. Conversely, the new GoW is likely my favorite game of the entire gen. 

But it carries the name. People know the name. The series has a reputation that we're not about to forget any time soon. That reputation will make people not care about it and avoid it.

 

And i am currently playing it, and it's still violent as ever. It's just more "artsy" now.



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TheGamer_1995 on 03 May 2018

The fact that Sony hasn’t said anything about it’s FW sales are worrying.
But still:
FW: NA=800k (45%Digital), EU=600k (35%Digital), ROTW=300k (25%), Japan= 50k (15%Digital), WW= 1,75m
LT: NA=4m (50%Digital), EU=4m (40%Digital), ROTW=1,5m (30%Digital), Japan= 200k (25%Digital), WW= 9,7m
Those numbers are in case that it is NOT bundled like Uncharted 4.



TheGamer_1995 on 03 May 2018
CGI-Quality said:
TheGamer_1995 said:
The fact that Sony hasn’t said anything about it’s FW sales are worrying.
But still:
FW: NA=800k (45%Digital), EU=600k (35%Digital), ROTW=300k (25%), Japan= 50k (15%Digital), WW= 1,75m
LT: NA=4m (50%Digital), EU=4m (40%Digital), ROTW=1,5m (30%Digital), Japan= 200k (25%Digital), WW= 9,7m
Those numbers are in case that it is NOT bundled like Uncharted 4.

They gave Horizon two weeks before saying anything. I'm sure it is doing fine. Also, I agree that having sub 4 & 5m options is in the poll silly. God of War III did over 5m 6 years ago and this one will easily clear that in far less time.

They also gave Uncharted 4 two weeks before announcing FW sales. Tomorrow it will be exactly two weeks since GOW came out so we shall see in the next couple of days.



bugrimmar on 03 May 2018
CGI-Quality said:
TheGamer_1995 said:
The fact that Sony hasn’t said anything about it’s FW sales are worrying.
But still:
FW: NA=800k (45%Digital), EU=600k (35%Digital), ROTW=300k (25%), Japan= 50k (15%Digital), WW= 1,75m
LT: NA=4m (50%Digital), EU=4m (40%Digital), ROTW=1,5m (30%Digital), Japan= 200k (25%Digital), WW= 9,7m
Those numbers are in case that it is NOT bundled like Uncharted 4.

They gave Horizon two weeks before saying anything. I'm sure it is doing fine. Also, I agree that having sub 4 & 5m options is in the poll silly. God of War III did over 5m 6 years ago and this one will easily clear that in far less time.

As you can see, some people voted for 4-5m.



Faelco on 03 May 2018
bugrimmar said:
pitzy272 said:

It seems very clear that you haven’t played the new GoW. This is nothing compared to the old games. I could never like them due to the excessive violence. Conversely, the new GoW is likely my favorite game of the entire gen. 

But it carries the name. People know the name. The series has a reputation that we're not about to forget any time soon. That reputation will make people not care about it and avoid it.

 

And i am currently playing it, and it's still violent as ever. It's just more "artsy" now.

The series has a reputation of being great games. I don't know why you think it has a "too violent reputation" issue. Most people who don't like violence most likely don't know the series at all anyway. And violence is pretty much in every western AAA nowadays. The executions in TLOU are very close to the ones in GoW (but on humans, even worse IMO), and nobody put a "way too violent" sticker on it.

 

And I'm not sure that "most people don't care about mythology". Tell them that it's about Odin, Thor, magical weapons forged by dwarves and the Bifrost, and you have already a huge Marvel crowd ready to learn more. Lots of people like mythology, and the Scandinavian one has a reputation as good as the Greek one. 



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TheGamer_1995 on 03 May 2018

Wow, I was so wrong.



Nymeria on 03 May 2018



God of War sold over 3.1 million units in its first three days, making it the fastest-selling PS4 exclusive ever

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Amazing start!



CosmicSex on 03 May 2018

If the week two worldwide follows the UK 35% drop you are looking at no less than 5 million already sold. I voted for 9 million and even that is in serious doubt for lifetime sales. Now we know why it keep selling out.



TheBlackNaruto on 03 May 2018

Now I feel like my 8-9 million vote is low balling it lol



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LinkDaHero on 03 May 2018

Wow, i was far off on my prediction.