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aLkaLiNE on 10 June 2016
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Mazzy said:
Uncharted 4 sales are decent if not a tad disappointing, but about what I expected given the somewhat lackluster 2.7m first week.
Mazzy said:

Thanks for numbers.

Disappointing Uncharted 4 sales, thought it would at least be in the upper 900k range.

 
Mazzy said:
Can people finally admit that Uncharted 4 sales are not really so great when considering the huge marketing push for this game? Will probably sell LTD same as TLoU, despite much more marketing and being the fourth in an established IP. It really seems Sony wanted something more for this, I mean the push and promotion has been immense.

Either exclusives just aren't what they used to be, or Uncharted as an IP just doesn't have the appeal of many of the big multiplats. Or perhaps this game is just some digital anomaly or has significantly more RotW appeal than US appeal? But both of those sound more like the usual excuses used as damage control for when a game fails to meet expectations.

Personally, I'm glad it did not sell as well, as I'd rather have Sony focus on a more diversified lineup than just one or two big AAA exclusives a year, and I'm not really a big Uncharted fan to begin with.
Mazzy said:
So Uncharted 4 had the largest ad campaign in PlayStation history, and yet performed under TLoU and Halo 5 and just barely performed above UC3 including bundles.

Interesting...
Mazzy said:
aLkaLiNE said:

Halo 5 released near Christmas. Uncharted released near... a typically stagnant month. 

 

Beyond that, Uncharted has grown with every entry. So relatively speaking that is a success where many games experience franchise fatigue by the fourth entry.

Halo 5 sold less than half of what the last few entries have, a straight nosedive relatively speaking. Not hard to see where everyone's coming from with this

 

On one last note Uncharted is a single player driven experience that offers multiplayer while Halo is a multiplayer driven experience that offers single player.  The only reason people can even compare them is because they're both premier 1st party titles. Not the same genre, not the same focus, and one sells globally while one sells nationally (+the Uk). Why are you so upset?

 

No one's upset. People are just starting to notice that the goalposts are shifting a bit as people try to tell themselves these numbers are great, while completely ignoring the context of Uncharted 4 receiving the largest marketing push in PlayStation history, the team size nearly doubling from UC3, the story being entirely rewritten, and a long dev time. PS4 is not weak in US like PS3 was, and even at Uncharted's absolute peak in dev size and the biggest marketing push in history can't even outperform Halo at it's absolute lowest after a massive fall from grace and ~70% sales decline from previous Halo games. 

At this rate, it will be difficult for Uncharted 4 to outsell TLoU, a new IP with a comparatively much smaller marketing budget, dev time, and team size. 

Just food for thought. 

I'm not mad mazzy. You're just petty