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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Marth said:

scottslater said:

Did I stutter? Anyway you slice it, it is still a failure overall in that market, period, and the Japanese market is very important to overall success.

Just because it has performed better than the last game doesn't mean anything.  No one is "grasping" at straws here, I'm asking for very relevant sales data to get an idea of how it is performing, the NA market will be the most important market for this game in terms of it being successful overall in terms of sales.  You have to remember that TLOU got a sales boost by being included in a console bundle.

Except it is not a failure at all in Japan. Do you read what I wrote?

It opened around 30% better than Tlou1 WITHOUT DIGITAL and is now already at over 90% of Part 1 LIFETIME SALES, still WITHOUT DIGITAL which should account to at least 20%.

The game has yet to recieve a price cut, bundle or a holiday season and already outsold its predecessor and is in the top 10 of SIE published titles in Japan. AFTER 3 WEEKS!

The Famitsu data is completely out there you can look it up. Just because you saw -80% somewhere and came to some silly conclusions is completely on you.

The data shows it did not fail in the slightest.

We can play this little game further.

Guess which game easly took Nr 1 Spot in the June PSN charts of US and EU?

We already know it is the fastest selling Sony game after its first 3 days with 4M sold thorugh. Which is 700k (20%) more than Spiderman did. In the summer of all seasons. No holiday or black friday boost to speak of.

Other fun facts? Sure

Top 10 yearly amazon chart in Canada and France
2x Top 10 in yearly amazon UK
Top 15 in yearly amazon chart in Germany and the US

The chance of this game selling less than 10M are pretty much 0.
You can try to spin this all you want. The game did not fail.

Quite the opposite it is doing excpetional. Deal with it.

So because it did well compared to other failures it's not a failure?  That's not how this works, it is still a failure compared to other games there is my point.

Sure, those facts are fun but irrelevant to what I am saying, it will not have legs.  EVERY Sony exclusive has this trend, huge front loaded sales then fade into obscurity.  I'm not saying the game is a failure or will be a failure.  What I'm saying is I don't think it will have the legs to get to 10 million because a PS5 version will kill it just like how the PS3 version of the first game was killed by a PS4 version.