D-Day for the launch of Uncharted 2 is rapidly descending upon us, with PS3 owners worldwide able to get their paws on Naughty Dog's new game in just under a week. Following the release of the multiplayer demo and the first reviews of game, the hype level has hit a feverish pitch. Will all this pre-release excitement convert into sales though? Naughty Dog certainly is banking on it, hoping the game manages to outsell the first game and do more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.

"We’d love to grow the franchise - that’s the bottom line. No matter what you do it’s always very difficult to grow from one game to another. And that‘s what our milestone is." said Naughty Dog Community Manager Arne Meyer during a recent interview. "If we can do better than we did with the previous game then we’re set."

So what was that bar set by the first title? Naughty Dog revealed that Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, released in November 2007, did an impressive 2.5 million copies worldwide. Multiplayer designer Justin Richmond added "And then for this game hopefully it’ll be higher."

http://www.ps3center.net/news/3851/naughty-dog-hopes-uncharted-2-sells-25m-copies/

The first one was my first PS3 purchase, I am definitely buying the second.
I think Uncharted 2 will not only achieve the goals the have set for it, but at the same time will burst the sales of the first game.

Well if everyone that bought drakes fortune buys this then his goal is achived.

That is obviously unlikely but I am sure with the "hype" and much bigger userbase the PS3 now has that 2.5m figure will be reached.

It certainly should, since this outpreforms the first one in almost every way.

Think it will do it quite easy.

Uncharted 2 is now number 1 on http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_dp_ts_vg_1
this probably is a good thing.

I think, 2.5 mln. is a minimum, which will be reached by the end of 2010.
Though. i expect 3+ mln. sales for Uncharted 2 by the end of 2010.

I fully expect 3 M LTD for this Uncharted 2, so Naughty Dog has nothing to worry about. Well....unless Gamestop convinces people to buy used games extremely early (They've done it before). Developers must want to strangle Gamestop right now.

Easy. They gave the beta to everyone, I think a lot of people didn't buy it because of the lack of online. I know a few people who are buying it who dont own the first just from the beta.

Well, the first game sold more than 2.8 million copies. So I expect uncharted 2 to sell the same amount.

It will no doubt.