I feel like there needs to be a note posted somewhere on this site at all times that Alinea is about as informative as a random guess.

That said: Dring has come out stating figures were 60% drop from SM2, slightly below GoY, and 3x stronger than DS2, as far as UK is concerned.

That's also in terms of physical only. Dring doesn't have the digital data yet. 

SM2 was around 5m first week, and GoY around 2m, so the UK physical sales check out with worldwide estimates.

SM2 sold 2.5m in 1 day, it hit 5m in 11 days. You may be thinking of God of War Ragnarök which sold 5.1m first week (5 days).

And yeah judging by UK physical sales and alinea analytics estimates it does seem Wolverine is selling roughly in line with Ghost of Yōtei, which is pretty good considering the negative discourse.

It looks genuine as its being reported everywhere on publication sites. Its even on Metro news because they also report gaming news as well as local and world news in their news paper. Its 1.9 million in the first 3 days. 

I have 2 friends that have finished the game. Both said it was a good 8. With one saying at its worst its a 7 and at its best its an 8. I see them as an honest review of their own experiences as they are not online within gaming communities. They hadnt seen the metacritic scores. They were 2 lads who saw the trailer, played and liked the game. 

Online reviews from critics are so mixed, you cant use any of it as a reference. Because there are many critics giving the game a 9 or straight 10. Then you have many critics giving the game 6 or whatever. So who do you rely on?

For the user reviews, they are the worst. Gamers who dont play these games giving a zero. No game is a zero. Then gamers want to counter the zero scores by giving it a ten, and again probably haven't even played the game. A lot of hate isnt even justified because they have either not played it, an xbox fanboy. Or simply wanted to hate on it anyway because they didnt agree on some character or plot line.

Theres a video of a guy showing how the games QTE is impossible to die. He recorded one QTE event where the prompts come up and the user doesnt press anything. You see the failed attempt and he completes the event. So he wanted to show how easy the gsme is and these qte are impossible to die. But he fails to tell anyone, that he changed his qte settings so he couldn't die. And that you can change the difficulty on these qte setting so you do die. My friend said he got ripped apart and died in the qte. He also said that put the game on highest difficulty and you do have a challenge. So this guy on YouTube deliberately faked his video to support his agenda. So you cant trust people with their hate.

The only real way you know if this game is any good is if you actually play it yourself. I recommend never putting any game on their easiest settings. So many games have a setting like story mode where it describes that you play just to enjoy the story. No challenge whatsoever.