God of War (PS4) nearing 20M sold, franchise cross 50M.

[DonFerrari]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

DonFerrari said:

src said:
Sony's 1st party are now above nearly every third party offering on Playstation and are nearing Nintendo levels. That's unprecedented, since Playstation also has the bulk of third party sales. We haven't seen a synergy like this since Nintendo in the NES/SNES days. 20M + : TLOU, UC, GOW, SM10M+ : Horizon, Ghost, GT, 5-10M : RC, DS, DG, Demons Souls

Don't do that, you are going to attract a lot of heat from "don't dare compare PS exclusives to Nintendo, Animal Crossing done 20M while GoT done 5M"

I mean, it sounds like you're mocking that reasoning but .... that's completely true. They aren't at Nintendo level. They'd be at or even above Nintendo level if we were comparing it to the Wii era (if we weren't including separately sold Wii series games, which is kind of unfair, a product is a product but oh well). But they aren't at the Switch's level, it's not even deniable really, think even NPD's analysts have said there's no system that has sold exclusives like the Switch. Animal Crossing is a good example, to be fair, as that will probably do 30M in a year. A year. 

Nogamez said:
GOTG deserves insane sales. Even thought its being beat by a couple previous gen games ? aka BoTW, GTA5 and Minecraft

Breath of the Wild is not previous gen. Let's not do this. 

I'm mocking the need to go and say that Sony isn't approaching Nintendo on sales of their first party. He didn't say it is the same level, he just saying that it is nearing. Pick PS3 the best seller was a little over 10M and most titles would be 1-2M. In PS4 almost all entries have improved in sales (including new IPs from devs that had lot lower sales before).

Anyone saying Sony 1st party have reached iconic status of Mario certainly can be mocked, but for me to deny that Sony isn't nearing Nintendo level because AC done much better than PS4 exclusives also deserves mocking. Because people that do that would be pissed if you then said that compared to Minecraft and GTA Nintendo games are niche level.