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Forums - Sony Discussion - God of War sells 3.1m Copies in 3 Days, Fastest Selling PS4 Exclusive.

JRPGfan on 04 May 2018
Kerotan said:
Halo 3 did 3.3m in first 12 days.
Gow 3.1m in 3 days only

I read that on resetera. Someone was asking earlier how these sales compare and there's your answer. God of war is now the bigger series. If you got by halo 5 numbers it's about 3 times bigger. Some difference a gen makes.

And while Halo is experianceing series fatigue.... and last game having a poorly recieved single player campagne, GoW just got re-imagined, its new and fresh and will probably grow with the next installment in the series.



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HyrulianScrolls on 04 May 2018

Absolutely insane. Is that a record for any Sony exclusive, even outside the PS4? Can't believe my favorite Sony exclusive franchise since 2005 might be becoming their new signature and most popular one.



Bofferbrauer2 on 04 May 2018
Nem said:
I just love how Sony and Nintendo are showing those greedy third parties how it's done.

No more Single player games? Says who?
No more linear story driven games? Who said that?

That is all the BS that the third party threw our way getting thrown right back at them.

People want SP games. People want story driven games. People want hack and slash games. People want platformers.

Open world BS doesn't have to be the only genre.

It's AAA Publishers, what do you expect? They jump on every bandwagon that seems popular right now, ditching everything else along the way.

Just like they are all jumping on the Battle Royale Bandwagon right now.

LethalP said:
IkePoR said:

I see, so this one will float in at around 7-8m then.  Not including pack ins of course.  Pretty solid I'd say.

Based on Horizon's sales (7.6 million in 1 year), I don't see how 7-8 million is the upper limit you see for this title.

Horizon had much better legs than any GoW that came out, basically on par with the leggiest Nintendo titles. You can't expect GoW to be as leggy when compared to the previous releases in the series.



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HollyGamer on 04 May 2018
CGI-Quality said:
God of War did this in 3 days...

Uncharted 4 : 2,7 million after one week
Horizon Zero Dawn : 2,6 million after two weeks

Let that sink in! ;p



KazumaKiryu on 04 May 2018

impressive!! And great news for all singleplayer-fans, its very good for the games-industry!



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NoCtiS_NoX on 04 May 2018

Well Deserved. I hope Sony will realized this is the best time to create new IPs and relaunching their old IPs.



taus90 on 04 May 2018

taus90 said:
Ok so this is turning out to be best selling exclusive on a playstation platform ever?? are there any exclusives games that sold better on previous consoles, I cant think of any??

GTA and GT on PS2 will need like 15M to be passed... and if you consider GT5P+GT5 18M for it to be safely be considered the best selling.

I know that GT is sold a lot, but I forgot to add the first week for a PS exclusive!



PEEPer0nni on 04 May 2018
BraLoD said:
Kyuu said:
Are there actually people expecting the lifetime sales of this to barely double the first 3 days (7-8 million)? Wouldn't that make it one of the most front-loaded titles of all time? SMH.

God of War will exceed 10 million, and a critically acclaimed TLoU2 will sell even better (likely around 15 million). I can no longer see Spider Man competing though.

Spidey never had a chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zm30yeHHE&t=3s

Look at those views man, without any ad.



LiquorandGunFun on 04 May 2018

there are many more ps4s out there too, great news for a great game.



 

DonFerrari on 04 May 2018
Intrinsic said:
DonFerrari said:

Considering VGC have week sales at about 250k from what was said earlier then they are lowballing the bundles.

And at the same time will be people saying GoW only sold good because of massive bundle.

The flip side of that argument is that a platform holder has a game people are willing to spend $300 for....

There are some that ignore that even on launch when PS4 was 400 and the bundle was 450, with more than 1 option of bundle and also the vanilla... if someone is buying the console for the game it's much more the bundle selling a HW than the SW since there were lot of bundles before that point in time.

taus90 said:

GTA and GT on PS2 will need like 15M to be passed... and if you consider GT5P+GT5 18M for it to be safely be considered the best selling.

I know that GT is sold a lot, but I forgot to add the first week for a PS exclusive!

I believe some GT have had very good FW... but since you are meaning just FW and exclusive I wouldn't know without doing research if any had a bigger FW... I guess none have done it, since I believe more and more people are buying day one.



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