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

[Valdney]

CGI-Quality said:

Valdney said:

This article, in no way, addresses what I said. It's a 2 year old article that does not mention profits at all. No doubt the game was off to a great start and a massive amount of revenue was created around that time. But again, I am not talking about revenue. 

As reported by NPD Group and spotted by our pals at VGC, this means the only first-party Sony titles to top The Last of Us 2 in terms of life-to-date profit are Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man and Sony Santa Monica's God of War - and both of those have been out for considerably longer than Naughty Dog's highly anticipated sequel.

Yes, at that point, it had already made more money than those two huge games. It addressed exactly what you said, which was based on feelings and not any solid data at all. It's likely that the game made what it needed to in those first 4 million unit sales and everything else was pure profit. Even if it hasn't made as much, overall, as Spider-Man or GOW, this is still a better guess than assuming it is "probably the least profitable game made by ND in the last 15 years or so". 

This is the link I got from your first reply. https://www.thegamer.com/last-of-us-2-third-highest-grossing-playstation-game/ . It does not mention profits at all. But I saw the second link now. OK I was probably wrong, although the data in regards to profits is not clear. 

Last edited by Valdney - on 10 June 2022