PS5 Ships 54.8 Million Units as of December 2023, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Sales Top 10M

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kazuyamishima said:

PotentHerbs said:

It doesn't help when outlets/journalists use clickbait headlines. 

Still, you would think Sony is barely breaking even when looking at some of the reactions lol. Even the most bullish news out of the report, Sony planning an IPO for their financial unit, was overlooked. 

That's the problem, Some journalists have quoted partially or twisted some words to make their narrative more believable. It's getting ridiculous

javi741 said:

Far less likely for this to happen to Nintendo, most Nintendo games are very cheap and don't require a ton of resources, most games don't focus on texturing every small detail. Only games that Nintendo makes that I can see having pretty high budgets are Smash Bros, Zelda, and maybe 3D Mario as well.

Nintendo games also typically sell far more than Sony's, Super Mario Party alone has outsold all but 3 PS exclusives in history. Nintendo games could easily sell between 25-40M on the regular, and they very rarely go down in price while Sony needs to apply heavy discounts just to sell over 10M Units. Nintendo has created such dominant IP with relatively small budgets to the point where Nintendo won't need to worry about it for a very long time, potentially never.

Interest take, but I'll bit, what the hell.

Considering that Sony rarely reveals number of games sold compared to Nintendo, it's hard to tell. Games like The Last of Us, Gow 2018, Uncharted 4, Horizon Forbidden West, Spiderman 1, and a few others have already passed the 20m units sold mark. 

Also, just like Sony, the same franchises are the ones selling the most. About 9 games have sold more than 20m units on Switch, and their games DO go on sale about 3-4 times a year. Sony used to do heavy discounts in the prior generations for their games, but sadly, they copied Nintendo with PS5 games, All their games, including launch titles (with very rarely examples) still have the launch price, nowadays, it's very rarely that Sony does heavy discounts on their games.

Main problem is, their PR has been a disaster in the PS5 generation, they should at least learn from other companies at least.

I think javi741 is referring to that Switch games don't get a permanent price cut compared to Playstation games, which do (and sometimes like 3 months after release).
Yes, PS5 AAA titles are not getting price drops like PS4 titles or 3rd party PS5 games, but they also arent selling as much. And yes AAA Nintendo games have a deal that lower by like 10-20% off 3-4 times in a year, for weekends, and only for select titles which are usually the older ones from 2017-2020. PS5 puts deals on their games as well 3-4 times a year as well.

And I think he was referring to how Sony can't seem to sell games over 20M units for the PS5.

Below are Sony published games that released for PS5
Slightly updated to the point where information for PS5 games are available

God of War: Ragnarok sold 15M (both PS4 & PS5)
Spider-Man 2 sold 10M (PS5)
Death Stranding Directors Cut sold 10M (PS4 & PS5 & PC)
Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut sold 9.73M (both PS4 & PS5)
Horizon Forbidden West sold 8.4M as of Apr 2023 (PS4 & PS5 & PC)
Gran Turismo 7 sold 5.5M as of Dec 2022 (both PS4 & PS5)
FF7 Remake solf 4.98M as of Feb 2023 (both PS4 &PS5)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart sold 3.97M (PS5)
FFXVI sold 3M as of Sept 2023 (PS5)
Demon Souls sold 2.08M on PS5 as of Feb 2022
MLB The Show 21 sold 2M as of July 2021
Returnal sold 1.01M
Helldivers II sold 1M and rising (both PS5 & PC)
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection sold 569k as of Feb 2022 (PS5)
Devil May Cry V sold ~500k as of Feb 2023 (PS5)
Nioh Series (Nioh Remastered, Nioh 2 Remastered) sold ~400k as of Feb 2023 (PS5)
Last of Us Part 1 N/A
Last of Us Part 2 Remastered: N/A
MLB The Show 22 N/A
MLB The Show 23 N/A
Sackboy: A Big Adventure N/A (PC sales 63k)

There's a reason Sony stops counting software sold.

Best 11 selling Sony (PS1-PS5) exclusives

• Marvel’s Spider-Man — 22.12 million copies
• God of War (2018) — 20.82 million copies
• Horizon Zero Dawn — 19.26 million copies
• Uncharted 4 — 18.61 million copies
• The Last of Us — 18.24 million copies
• Gran Turismo Sport — 12.72 million copies
• Ghost of Tsushima — 11.12 million copies
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 — 10 million copies
• Uncharted Collection — 9.68 million copies
• Bloodborne — 7.46 million copies
• Days Gone — 7.32 million copies
• Ratchet & Clank (2016) — 6.97 million copies

Best selling 11 Nintendo Switch games

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe — 60.57 million copies
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons — 44.79 million copies
•  Super Smash Bros Ultimate —  33.67 million copies
•  Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — 31.61 million copies
•  Super Mario Odyssey —  27.65 million copies
• Pokémon Sword and Shield — 26.17 million copies
• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet — 24.36 million copies
•  Super Mario Party — 20.34 million copies
•  Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — 20.28 million copies
•  New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe — 17.20 million copies
•  Ring Fir Adventure — 15.38 million copies