While it's unfortunate, game sales don't mean a lot. MP games allow companies to cash in with microtransactions and DLC more frequently. This creates a constant source of revenue. Fifa generates a ton of money with the Ultimate Team.

I would say that making great AAA single player games without microtransactions is becoming restrict to first party titles, since the console companies want quality titles to push units, even if they are not as profitable as a CoD or BF game.

The ratings are good, but nowhere as important to publishers as revenue. Even the two example, BOTW and Odissey, sold a fraction of what a Fifa/CoD/BF game sells yearly while not having the other revenue streams.

Oops, my bad. I was looking at the wiki page of best selling PS4 games and they have GTAV at a mere 2m, which I thought was weird but then thought maybe it sold most of its copies on PS3/360. Shoulda known not to go by that. 

It does have some similarities to 2, but I find the main characters and their story mostly overshadow it. 2 was still better anyway.

LOL. Not sexist. I would say Aloy gives Nate a run for his money as a main character for me personally. Both are interesting, down to Earth, and care more about the adventure and getting loot done, than bringing up dramatic baggage.

I find the comment about single player games odd. They never went away and never were in the 1st place..?

Single player games were never ‘dead’, there was just too much of an over saturation of mediocre/average joe single player games with not enough good ones being made for a while, which made Microsoft look at the data without any context and assume the genre was dying. It never was, in terms of sales potential. It only ‘died’ in the sense that appealing ones were few and far between, and that was technically the fault of developers.

However, it IS true that multiplayer games have more sales potential than single player games. And that’s part of the reason fewer good ones were being made in the first place. The best developers want to maximize sales and popularity, so most of them put a lot of effort into including multiplayer or even completely focusing on that. Absolutely understandable, but it created this false impression that single player games lost their sales potential. They didn’t, they just stopped being worked on as much by the AAA developers, and sometimes they were overshot in production costs. (Tomb Raider, etc)

Multiplayer has always had more sales potential, and it’s just better and less risky to make more games like that, but good single player games will always have high sales potential, provided they’re being made and made by good developers. Just because they have less potential doesn’t mean they have bad or weakening potential. They’re just as strong or stronger, they just don’t have AS much potential as multiplayer, and they never have. Which makes multiplayer games a bit safer.

.....all that said, UC4 still has multiplayer in it rofl So it doesn’t really fit in with this discussion as much, even if it isn’t the main focus of the game. The sort-of pioneers proving that single player alone can still stand strong are games like Horizon, Zelda, etc

10mm sales is a big achievement. But, of the list of 10mm sellers on PS4, one stands far above the rest - GTAV. All of the rest were bundled with the console. So, while those sales are certainly still legitimate, they are not a very good way to gauge interest in the title.

As an example, I purchased UC4 on its own (recently), because I wanted to play it. I also purchased Minecraft a couple of years ago, because it was bundled with XB1S. I have never actually played Minecraft. But, the bundle with that game was $50 cheaper than any others, and I needed to get a replacement Xbone. So, I bought it. The sale counts, just the same. But, the Minecraft devs shouldn't take any pride in that sale.

Wow. I hadnt realised this had passed 10M. Those are amazing sales. I hope the uncharted series isn't dead.

Thats interesting! Horizon zero Dawn = 100 % too. GOD OF WAR and SPIDERMAN maybe too,yes!

The focus is on "The Last of Us 2" - it will be one of the most expensive video game productions of all time. Thanks, Naughty Dog! And rumors say the developer is working on a new IP. Uncharted will come back someday, that is sure my friend :)

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I am looking forward to TLOU2 but I am worried about UC. It is possible it may be passed on to another developer which I dont think will be great. Even if it comes back I worry about the protagonist and what they can do - I dont know how much they can change the gameplay around tbh to make it fresher. 

i understand you. a uncharted without "naughty dog" would not important/great for me personally. But right now everything is fine - do not worry :) Uncharted is the biggest IP for Naughty Dog in the last 5+ years. Someday - a "Uncharted-comeback" then by the studio, i hope AND think it for us :) Greetings : )