The Last of Us Part II sold through more than 4m copies during its first weekend. Lifetime sales expectations for the PS4 version alone?

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hinch said:

scottslater said:

Yeah, crash and burn was expected and is already down to #5 in the chart.  And as I said, the US buying trends tend to match the Japanese market more than the European market which isn't a good sign for this game.  It will not have legs and no one will be talking about the game in a couple months just like FF7.  FF7 has already been outsold on Amazon this year by games 3 years old...  Sony Exclusives are heavily front loaded and trail off quickly and with the new systems coming this year I just don't see the PS4 version selling any better than how the PS3 version of the first game did.

Its trending the same way other NaughtyDog games have done in Japan - i.e Uncharted 4. Video games sales are always front loaded.

Just wait for sales figures in a few weeks. I would highly doubt it will drop off due to controversy. If anything this will keep sales going.

No, Sony Exclusives are heavily front loaded because most of the install base don't care about them so they don't have legs.  3rd party and Nintendo games have legs and sell well even years after their release.  It's why you see Animal Crossing, MK, CoD, FIFA, etc every month in top selling charts and games like FF7 fall of after a couple of weeks.