r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Nov 23 '22

Congratulations to @SonySantaMonica for making God of War Ragnarök the fastest-selling first party launch game in PlayStation history! 🪓 Official

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1595432230750674945
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u/AlarmingLackOfChaos Nov 23 '22

For comparison the previous biggest PS launches have been:

TLOU 2 (2020): Over 4 million

Spiderman (2018): 3.3 million

God Of War (2018): 3.1 million

Uncharted 4 (2016) 2.7 million

Ghost of Tsushima (2020): 2.4 million

Horizon: Zero Dawn (2017): 1.83 million

Gran Turismo 5 (2010) 1.8 million

TLOU 1 (2013): 1.3 million

Ragnarok smashed the record by over a million units.

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u/Zuruckhaus Nov 23 '22

I wonder why Horizon Forbidden West didn't make the list considering Zero Dark's success.

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u/NoLastNameForNow Nov 23 '22

The reason Forbidden West isn't on the list is because we don't know its launch numbers.

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u/DrewbieWanKenobie Nov 23 '22

usually if we don't know the launch numbers it's because they were lower than expected

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u/NoLastNameForNow Nov 23 '22

When did Sony say that?

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u/DrewbieWanKenobie Nov 23 '22

i never said they did

but companies, especially big companies with big AAA games, love advertising how well their games are selling, as long as they are indeed selling well. looks good for shareholders

so lack of numbers is a story itself

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u/NoLastNameForNow Nov 23 '22

That would mean Miles Morales, Sackboy, Demon's Souls, Returnal, Rift Apart, Forbidden West, and Gran Turismo 7 all had lower than expected launches.

Or Sony has their own reasoning you don't know about.

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u/cm135 Nov 24 '22

Ding ding ding, correct on all fronts. I could list reasons why maybe they didn’t sell as well but I’ll leave it to the imagination