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Swordmasterman on 23 April 2016
GribbleGrunger said:

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#16 PS4 Black Ops III Bundle (same)
#64 PS4 Fool's Edition (down 1)
#85 XB1 Quantum Break LE Bundle (up 4)
#91 XB1 Gears of War Bundle (up 4)
#97 Vita (down 4)
#403 PS4 Uncharted 4 LE Bundle (up 121)

SOFTWARE (Pre-Orders Only)
#06 PS4 Uncharted 4 same)
#30 PS4 Uncharted 4 CE (new entry)
#44 PS4 No Man's Sky (same)
#53 PS4 Uncharted 4 SE (up 6)

Wow, Uncharted is Triple Charted in the top 100, CE, means "Collectior's Edition" ?.



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mornelithe on 23 April 2016
BraLoD said:
RolStoppable said:

I can read people who have pure hearts. Unfortunately, most hardcore gamers' hearts are consumed by darkness.

10m is a tall order, especially when bundles are excluded. Uncharted's sales on the PS3 weren't limited by installed base, so the series would have to experience a significant boost in popularity in order to reach 10m. Something markedly different would need to be there to make that happen. I haven't followed details of Uncharted 4, but I assume that Naughty Dog isn't going to make any major changes to their formula.

Uncharted pre-orders have been very, very strong, it clearly already had a boost in popularity, with the great reviews to come, and of course, a good bundling, when we have a normal one going on, it'll have a clear boost over the other Uncharted games.
I'm expecting it to go for 9M, but I'm not rulling 10M out, even as I don't expect it. Including bundling.

The formula has changed quite a bit from Uncharted 3, I mean, it's the same franchise, it has the same core base, but it has now a take on exploration, with way bigger and multy path maps, and on stealh as well, now having a way better integration of the scenary to make use from.
It has minor new stuff as being able to mark enemies now that the scenarios are bigger, and a rope that helps both on climbing/exploration as well as in the transition to the fighting. And a very, very good set of animations, double to triple character join animations and very smooth and varied ones for Drake himself. It's still Uncharted, but it's clearly improved. Majorly changed? I would say within not going away from what is Uncharted, yes, it's majorly changed, as playing will be possible on different ways as it was before.

I think it's also gotten a pretty big boost from TLOU, as well.



mornelithe on 23 April 2016
BraLoD said:
mornelithe said:

I think it's also gotten a pretty big boost from TLOU, as well.

Hard to tell, TLOU has it's PS3 legs cut off because of the PS4 Remaster.
If VGC is to be believed on TLOU R sales, Uncharted 4 won't reach TLOU at all.
7M on PS3 within a year, plus those TLOU R sales, which are basically TLOU legs, should account for around 11M+

What I mean is that, basically, with each additional game that comes out for ND, and the accolades/critical reception, games they make are beginning to gain hype just from those past games...at least, it wouldn't surprise me to find that out.



JRPGfan on 23 April 2016
GribbleGrunger said:

SOFTWARE (Pre-Orders Only)
#06 PS4 Uncharted 4 same)
#30 PS4 Uncharted 4 CE (new entry)
#44 PS4 No Man's Sky (same)
#53 PS4 Uncharted 4 SE (up 6)

Yep... Uncharted 4 is going to sell pretty well.



GribbleGrunger on 23 April 2016
RolStoppable said:

10-12m. I can read his mind.

Hold on, I am receiving something else...

10-12m, excluding bundles with hardware. Yes, that should be correct.

Uncanny.



 

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Swordmasterman on 23 April 2016
mornelithe said:
BraLoD said:

Hard to tell, TLOU has it's PS3 legs cut off because of the PS4 Remaster.
If VGC is to be believed on TLOU R sales, Uncharted 4 won't reach TLOU at all.
7M on PS3 within a year, plus those TLOU R sales, which are basically TLOU legs, should account for around 11M+

What I mean is that, basically, with each additional game that comes out for ND, and the accolades/critical reception, games they make are beginning to gain hype just from those past games...at least, it wouldn't surprise me to find that out.

Yes, is like this with Every company that make a Very good game, the only Reason people purchased Fallout 4, and it sold Multiple times more than Fallout 3, is because of Skyrim's Success.

The Last of US, sold more than 10 Millions, we need to take the Remaster in consideration, because the game launched in the Last year of the PS3.



Ryng on 23 April 2016

Uncharted 4 gonna Sell huge, but for Sell +10M i think Somy should make an accessible Bundle for $350 / $300.

That limited Edition is not gonna do much, like The Halo limited Bundle... It should still Sell easy 9M or so withouth any Bundle.



GribbleGrunger on 23 April 2016
Ryng_Tolu said:
Uncharted 4 gonna Sell huge, but for Sell +10M i think Somy should make an accessible Bundle for $350 / $300.

That limited Edition is not gonna do much, like The Halo limited Bundle... It should still Sell easy 9M or so withouth any Bundle.

They will once they've shipped the preorders of the current bundle. A Vanilla PS4 + UC4 for $300



 

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ihh on 23 April 2016

Ratchet on the 1st page of the yearly #20.



X1Gates on 24 April 2016

The ps4 is doing ok at the moment, nothing special really. However, this holiday will be a killer for sony if they pull it off. Release neo for $400, then reduce the base ps4 to $249= Sony domination not only this holiday but many holidays to come. I hope xbox.5 is real or else the gap will get wider and the possibility of sony locking down major third party exclusive will increase.