Not to derail the topic, but comparing a multi-million dollar production, that for all its faults, had a concrete vision, to the Big 2 of comics, which constantly screw around with on-going comics for whatever reason, is a bit silly. Every year is another event that kills and resurrects heroes and villains, disrupting whatever story is going on in the little titles. That's not going into deaths, characters changing personalities randomly, editorial mandates and whatever else I'm forgetting. Comics are not necessarily failing because of wokeshit, comics are failing, and wokeshit is a desperate attempt to keep the ship afloat for a few more years. Dunno about the TV series, Batwoman seems to be coming after a half a dozen DC TV shows, so audiences probably didn't care as much anymore.
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Nobody claimed that it sold as many as a GTA title. But it sold well, yet people here are doing mental gimnastics about every sales report. Like not calling this a videogame, just a "video-game".
Sure, you can totally believe without question a class of people that just did dozens of reviews with perfect scores(no game is perfect) and are known to have shady relationships with publishers, sure, they are really trust worthy especially when said people love click bait articles and are harboring a truckload of salt after people questioned their integrity, they are really unbiased. This sort of obscuring, very especific lenguage journos use for Last of Us 2 sales is the same kind of bullshit they pulled with Battlefield , the latest Battlefield sold bellow expectations, but there was no shortage of "Lets roast the haters." articles about "huge sales" coming for journos for months before EA admitted. Lets just say, I only trust raw numbers coming from Sony at this point, not hours played, units shipped or best selling of very especific category I created.
I want to know what the number of copies sold are. If it really is the third highest grossing Playstation exclusive, then it should have sold enough copies to put it near GTAV's 20 million. (on the PS4, not all consoles) Uncharted 4 sold 16 million and somehow TLOU2 beat it. Are they fucking over retailers on their share, a massive amount of digital purchases, or actually selling it? Two of those things are not as good as they think it is. Waterworld was the 9th highest grossing film of 1995, and Cleopatra was the highest grossing film of 1963, but neither exactly gave the studio making it much of an actual profit.
Well, Dexter mentioned the launch window sales of both Spider man and God of War, going from the data he mentioned, if the drop off is this massive to make this game have a worse launch window than God of War despite the bigger week one sales, that is a red flag right there.
I realized sometime after posting that that U4 merely got its total number long after the initial few months, where the dosh per copy would naturally be lower. Probably 30$, 20$ roughly per copy. No, The Last of Us 2 has indeed sold enough copies to be impressive. It's still a giant pop culture force, but its in the category of technical bomb. It'll probably make its cost sometime a few years down the line. Which I guess makes it like any other big budget video game these days.
Well tha Playstation game stats page, which reports the individual TLFU2 players are in line with the reports of the media (which reporsts around 6 million), so it doesn't seems there is a discrepancy between the two.
That's not what the article you linked said. Best selling first party game in the United States.
Does it really matter that much that Tlou 2 is third place lifetime sales after God of war in the US, if it has sold less than Gow worldwide after the same amount of time post release?
