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Santa Monica Studio has indirectly revealed that around 9,1 million users have played God of War by sharing the (impressive) number of Platinum Trophies unlocked in a new infographic. The original link seems to be dead right now, but the infographic can be seen here. As it was quickly calculated in this thread by using the % of people who obtained the Platinum Trophy (this data is disclosed for every game), we can estimate God of War has seen around 9,134,074 players in 4 months.

As a reminder, God of War sold 5 million units in 1 month. There was no official sales update since from Sony, but it's safe to say it's probably close to 8 million (we have to subtract things like used copies or sharing). And if you want a comparison using players units, we know Gran Turismo Sport crossed 5 millions players in 9 months.

For the first half of 2018, God of War is the second best selling game of year in the US according to NPD. It was also on the top 3 in every major european countries during the same period, alongside FIFA 18 and Far Cry 5.
 
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Trago

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Congrats!

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Memento

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I feel like they are waiting it to hit 10 million to update the numbers

Should reach that by Fall
 

DanteLinkX

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Well deserved! there are 71 million of ps4 users missing on this incredible game, everyone should buy this game, I thought this game wouldnt be good, boy was I wrong, excellent game all around. Loving it so far.
 

WizdogC

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I don't understand. The info comes from the amount of people who got the platinum trophy.

Can you account share trophies?

I probably misread this, if so, apologies.

I think what they mean about sharing is about the actual physical copies. If I have the physical disk and platinum the game, I can then give my disk to my friend who'll play and then platinum the game as well. Two platinum's that are technically attributable to one sold copy of the game.
 

Benji

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Sony is going to have 2 different 10 million selling exclusives in the same year

Pretty damn impressive.

Also well deserved for GoW. Halfway through it now and it's hard for me to think a different game could take its spot as GoTY got me this year
 

Majiebeast

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Sony is going to have 2 different 10 million selling exclusives in the same year

Pretty damn impressive.

Also well deserved for GoW. Halfway through it now and it's hard for me to think a different game could take its spot as GoTY got me this year

We talking about dem puddle-man's or robo dinosaur girl?
 

Riderz1337

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Jesus Christ.

I remember people were "worried" in the sales thread (maybe last month?) when GoW had dropped a couple spots.

Lel
 

inpHilltr8r

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I think what they mean about sharing is about the actual physical copies. If I have the physical disk and platinum the game, I can then give my disk to my friend who'll play and then platinum the game as well. Two platinum's that are technically attributable to one sold copy of the game.
Also rentals, and second hand sales. Personally I downloaded the game, and my wife played my copy on her account. So that's two platinums for one sale. You can extrapolate the number of players reasonably well, but sales is going to be a fraction of that. Unless there's a thing where a lot of players are buying multiple copies, which seems unlikely.
 

Terraforce

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Can't wait until Spidey starts stuntin on people like this. If you used prior games as a reference 5M would seem like the max for God of War, but fuck that Daddy Long Legs nearly DOUBLED that in four freaking months. Congrats to Santa Monica.
 

TreeMePls

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Sony is going to have 2 different 10 million selling exclusives in the same year

Pretty damn impressive.

Also well deserved for GoW. Halfway through it now and it's hard for me to think a different game could take its spot as GoTY got me this year
Sony must be really pleased with the growth their exclusives have seen throughout the gen
 

chobel

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Sony is going to have 2 different 10 million selling exclusives in the same year

Pretty damn impressive.

Also well deserved for GoW. Halfway through it now and it's hard for me to think a different game could take its spot as GoTY got me this year

Detroit: Become Legs?

:p
 

Markitron

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So people still actually like story-driven single player games. Are you listening EA? That biggest license on the planet that you currently possess for some reason might make you some money if you actually try.
 

Zok310

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Sony must be really pleased with the growth their exclusives have seen throughout the gen
To be fair, i think that we are all pleased with their exclusives this gen. I personally was not expecting this level of work. I thought we would just get more or less PS3 quality and efforts from 1st party with PS4 graphics this gen.... I could not have been more wrong.
The real question is can they outdo themselves with the PS5's 1st party, ha they got some big shoes to fill next gen, they have set the bar for themselves very high.
 

New Fang

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Going to be interesting to see where God of War and Spider-Man end up by the end of the year.
 

Terraforce

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Going to be interesting to see where God of War and Spider-Man end up by the end of the year.
Maybe not as big of a jump, but I'm hoping Holiday will give Spider-Man a Mario Odyssey level Boost. BotW was walking in strides like GoW, but Mario caught up in a jiffy before the end of the year.