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

DonFerrari said:
Very strong numbers for a well received title... so how is that thread of SoT vs GoW going?

Wait what? I must have forgotten was there ever seriously a thread about which would sell better?



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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.

Yep. Some of us may not like one or another game from both companies but we shall applaud that they keep doing great SP games that their userbase support.

JRPGfan said:
DonFerrari said:
Very strong numbers for a well received title... so how is that thread of SoT vs GoW going?

Wait what? I must have forgotten was there ever seriously a thread about which would sell better?

Yep there was. And there was some MS fans saying that it would be impossible to measure all the greatness of SoT because it would be keep being played forever, game pass would concentrate most of the users and other deflections to infer that actually SoT would sell more if they were both only retail.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

I wonder how many of those were the PS4 bundle



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deskpro2k3 said:
I wonder how many of those were the PS4 bundle

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.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

How do these sales compare to past Halo and Gears of War games? Is it better/worse?

Man, it's so cool to see this do so well. The game is awe-inspiring and you just want to be there in that world while playing. Any game that makes me feel that is an instant all-time fav!

Shame the metacritic score fell to 94 from 95. While there is a LOT of praise for the game, it isn't enough. Based on other games that got over 95, this game should be a 99. But it just doesn't matter - media is always biased one way or the other. What matters is that many find the game impressive and the sales speak volumes!



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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??



Wow, it surpassed my expectations! I thought it would do 2.8m FW. Congrats!



Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

Amazing performance.

I figured this would have been the case in a week or so.



StreaK said:
How do these sales compare to past Halo and Gears of War games? Is it better/worse?

Man, it's so cool to see this do so well. The game is awe-inspiring and you just want to be there in that world while playing. Any game that makes me feel that is an instant all-time fav!

Shame the metacritic score fell to 94 from 95. While there is a LOT of praise for the game, it isn't enough. Based on other games that got over 95, this game should be a 99. But it just doesn't matter - media is always biased one way or the other. What matters is that many find the game impressive and the sales speak volumes!

According to vgchartz halo 3 which I think was the hugest debut for any halo or gears game was 3.8m first week. If god of war 2 releases in say 2020 on ps4 it could beat that. On ps5 it will be much harder because of install Base. 

 

Anyway a 2021 god of war 2 launch would indeed move a lot of ps5's. They could always remaster god of war for the ps5 launch say holiday 2020. 



DonFerrari said:
Farsala said:
The meme of Sony exclusives not selling has definitely ended recently.

Well we still hear PS have no games every gen... so they will try to spin something.

Manlytears said:

Yup, sony is killing it. I wonder if sony will "jab" xbox whit the sales of their exclusives, like xbox used to do...    https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ms-halo-3-outsold-six-ps3-titles-combined

GoW outselling Halo 5 + Gear 4? I can see that.

If we select games we could make GoW sells more than 10 exclusives or something like that.

Because Halo3 wouldn't even outsell GT5P+GT5.

 I could imagine Greenberg in his office making that statement and a staffer saying  "it could come back to haunt us", with Greenberg replying I'll make sure we never have that many exclusives , if there's a backlash the media will blame the ceo,my integrity over exclusives every day , by the way how many of our third parties do we claim as exclusive? we might need a cull.



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