HFW generated $435M in revenue its first year compared to HZD generating $481M in revenue for its lifetime.
With Sony's premium pricing strategy this generation, they're going to have a handful of titles surpassing, or approaching, at least 1B+ in revenue. Based on launch aligned comparisons, it doesn't look like this new strategy is impacting the legs of these games, as HFW, GT7, Ragnarok and SpiderMan 2 are tracking higher than their predecessors on a launch aligned basis.
Sony has also stated that adding HFW to their PlayStation Plus catalog has severely impacted its sales. I think this would also extend to Ghost of Tsushima, which was just under 10M last year, and going forward, Sony is going to take a bit longer in putting their blockbuster titles on their service. Ideally, Sony getting around 1B+ in revenue from game sales, before putting them on their service to increase engagements/subscribers, is the best way to balance their distribution methods.
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