Those are great numbers but I'm disappointed, sorry.
It deserves to be in the big club with GOW and Spider-Man. The DC came out last year and Sony barely advertised it. It's now on PS+ so the sales will slow down even more.
Maybe the movie will help but it will never reach 15 millions at this rate
Yep then. The Last of Us part 2 official has underperformed.
Lol, no. To sell over 10M copies in under 2 years is not underperform at all. Only a few exclusives achieved that.
As I remember TLOU2 was the fastest selling launch of the generation for an exclusive and after a couple years it's pretty much tied with GoT. 10 millions in 2 years are top tier sales for an exclusive (this goes for both TLOU2 and GoT), specially for a new IP.
As reference:
- The most comparable case to GoT is Horizon, another top selling Sony exclusive new IP that sold 7.6M in almost a year and announced that it achieved 'well over' 10M copies in its 2nd anniversary and now counting the PC version is over 20M copies sold.
- I think we don't have the Gran Turismo Sport sales release note for the 10M mark, but as IP it's the best selling Sony IP and according to Yamauchi it had 9.5M players 3 years and 3 months after launch.
- GoW 2018 achieved 10M in a year, and it was a clear winner of the goty of its year, one of the best games of the generation, and one of the most well known and best selling Sony IPs.
- Uncharted 4, another highly hyped GOTY, one of the best games of the generation and from one of their most popular and best selling exclusive IPs sold 8.7M in 8 months and over 15M 3 years after launch.
- Spider-Man, one of the biggest IPs in the world, September 7, 2018 sold over 9M in almost 3 months and 13.2M almost a year after launch.
- Regarding other Sony best selling new IPs, I think we have to go back to TLOU1 that in its first year sold 8M copies and I think its next update we had it was 17M units but almost 5 years after launch.
- Other than these games I think we don't have any other Sony exclusive that achieved 10M that fast, specially a new IP. And well, regarding MS I think we don't have a single first party game from them who achieved 10M sold units sold at all that generation. Regarding Nintendo I don't remember the last time they released a new IP that sold 10M and that did it in 2 years.
10M sold in 2 years it's a stunning sales achievement for a console exclusive new IP that only a handful games achieved. It's in the top tier category, similar to the "recent" best selling exclusive new IPs (TLOU1, Horizon) and even similar to recent games of top selling exclusive IPs (TLOU2, Uncarted 4 and above GTS). Only GoW and Spider-Man are clearly above, and all the other exclusives go under GoT and TLOU2 sales.
GoT must be more than happy with this sales, specially considering its upcoming movie and potential PC port and sequel it may end selling around 20M. TLOU2 will also get sales bumps with TLOU1 remake, TLOU Factions 2, TLOU tv show and potential PS5 version and PC port. Make sure TLOU2 will end selling way beyond 20M copies.
I can’t think of a lot of single player franchises that do 10M + in two years, much less new IP. Big beloved japanese franchises are bragging about doing these numbers over a much longer period, for example Resident Evil 2 remake just crossed it after 3 years.
Or multiplayer that aren't F2P. There are only a few top franchises that sell over 10M copies per game and they are multiplatform.
As a reference only 3 Capcom games in their whole history achieved 10M sold (MHW, REVII and MHR), none of them were new IPs, all 3 were multiplatform and one of them (REVII) needed almost 5 years to achieve it.
how this is rated as good and sometimes better as RD2 or LAST2 is beyond me.
