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

[DonFerrari]

Valdney said:

CGI-Quality said:

The article uses data. That's the point. We can argue profit vs revenue all day (which is generally silly anyway, given how these companies judge their products). It was the 3rd highest grossing game for Sony upon release.  

Valdney said:

This is the link I got from your first reply. https://www.thegamer.com/last-of-us-2-third-highest-grossing-playstation-game/ 

Then tell us, how do you conclude it is Naughty Dog's least profitable game of the past 15 years? Based on what?

Development time (cost to make the game) vs sales. I never concluded anything actually. It was just a guess. It is written as a guess. I think that labor is by far the most amount of resources spent when making a video game, and this game took a lot time and a lot of people. It is a decent guess, but just a guess. 

And the way a company judges its products does not interest me that much, but profitability does interest me. I don't think its silly at all to talk about profits. 

It would be hard sell to say it profited less than Left Behind or Lost Legacy.

Also considering 15 years include the original Uncharted, I would say TLOU2 profited more (unless perhaps you want to include collections and remasters).