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Aura7541 on 20 May 2016
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Mazzy said:

Bit confused on why people are surprised about Uncharted 4 charting for so many days straight. It doesn't tell us anything, it could be a bomba or a smashing hit and would have charted for this long regardless, especially as an exclusive (so not spread out across platforms) in a slow month like this, and at a 20% discount no less. 

I think in any case, the launch was tepid compared to Sony's expectations, and almost any outcome would result in disappointment due to Sony's very lofty sales expectations for the game.

In context, I think Uncharted 4 could be regarded as a bomb, not compared to the rest of the series, but in the context of how Sony tried to make it stand up against giants and it failed. 

What are Sony's sales expectations? How do you know UC4 has not met them? If you do, provide us the numbers and cite the sources. The game had much better first week sales than Halo 5 in the UK. It crushed Doom in Spain (78K to 5K). Hardly a bomb, really.

Mazzy said:

The most worrying part is no PR whatsoever, and that the game already being discounted (which suggests excess stock, suggesting that it did not meet expectations). Expect to see this game in bargain bins and in console bundles in 6-12 months.

This is Argument from Silence. Sony is not obligated to provide PR for Uncharted 4. I can tell you that the game already sold around 400K first week in just the UK, Spain, and Japan. Factor in the rest of the world, you do the math.