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Forums - Sales Discussion - UK: Shadow of the Colossus PS4 launch week sales are 73% greater than the PS2 version

Kerotan on 12 February 2018
Ka-pi96 said:
Kerotan said:
BTW don't forget digital sales which will no doubt be a decent %. And digital sales are pure profit to Sony. This remake was a very good choice.

Not really, they still need to cover the marketing/development costs. I've no doubt they will... but they're not pure profit until they've managed that first.

Retail sales will cover that. The extra digital are profit. 



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SWORDF1SH on 12 February 2018

OK but nothing special since the PS2 launch wouldnt of produced great numbers



Kerotan on 12 February 2018
Ka-pi96 said:
Kerotan said:

Retail sales will cover that. The extra digital are profit. 

On that basis you could say that digital will cover marketing/development and even manufacturing and retailers cuts then to claim retail sales are pure profit...

Sure  Whatever floats your boat



hunter_alien on 12 February 2018

Great debute. SotC was a fairly niche game to begin with, good to see that the market opened up a bit for titles like this one



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Barkley on 12 February 2018
Ka-pi96 said:
"8th different Sony-format exclusive to reach No1 so far this year."

They've correct it now, 8th since beginning of 2017, and this is for the combined charts.

For anyone interested these are the 8 games they're referring to:

Horizon
Persona 5
Wipeout Omega Collection
Crash Bandicoot: N'Sane Trilogy
Final Fantasy XII
Uncharted Lost Legacy
Gran Turismo Sport
Shadow of the Colossus



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Noobie on 12 February 2018

TLG was estimated at below 29k, and that was higher than SOTC PS2, so SOTC <29k. Then, SOTC PS4 = 1.73*SOTC PS2, or SOTC PS4 < 50k.

TLG Source: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/uk-dead-rising-4-outsold-the-last-guardian-at-launch.1324303/page-2#post-226447849

 



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CalmFire on 12 February 2018

And this doesn't even factor digital sales. Great stuff.



KazumaKiryu on 12 February 2018

Great Sales! And nice that the inventor of "The Last Guardian" develops such unique games :)



SWORDF1SH on 12 February 2018
Kerotan said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Not really, they still need to cover the marketing/development costs. I've no doubt they will... but they're not pure profit until they've managed that first.

Retail sales will cover that. The extra digital are profit. 

Out of interest, do you know the development and marketing costs?



MinatozakiSana on 12 February 2018

acclaimed and successful, a good decision for Sony to revive this game