Traded in a base PS4 for a PS4 Pro for this game and was not disappointed.
Well deserved. Kudos to SSM.
Well deserved. Kudos to SSM.
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Kodera: God of War exceeded 5 million copies (Sell through) in one month after release
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Cory Barlog just set himself up a legendary legacy with this game.
Good luck to him on any original IP he makes in the future. Gonna be tough.
Good luck to him on any original IP he makes in the future. Gonna be tough.
make sense because nobody had a Switch the day before BotW so, at launch, to buy the game people needed also to buy the console that they didn't had. Yes, it was available on the wii u, but very few people would have bought a wii u just for it, and there was probably a huge overlap between Wii U owners and Switch early adopters. It sold on the Switch more than the Wii U so i think the assessment is pretty fair and the tie-ratio at launch also speaks for itself.
Thx, my mistake then, tho as i said before my point still stands.
It literally is nonesense, you don't combine the hardware price with a game's, the price of the game in stores is still $60, when the company counts revenue for the game they look at how many units sold and at what price point.
And? this has nothing to do with my point? yes, in a technical sense since launch it has been a $60 but my point was never that it wasn't, just that in a practical sense, at launch, it was $360 since the majority of owners needed to buy the hardware to play it while with GoW a lot of the owners probably already owned a PS4 to play it. My point is that context matters which some of you seem to dismiss for no reason. You could say "runner 1 arrived at the goal in 1h, while runner 2 need to 2h to arrive" and with only that information you could think runner 1 is way faster than runner 2, but if the following context is given "runner 1 started the race 4km away from the goal while runner 2 started 10 km away" then the answer "to who is faster?" changes.
No one knows except for Nintendo.
But it did 7.5 million first 2 months and 2 million first 3 days.
Context is wholly dismissed by some when it doesn't fit their narrative. If I had claimed the Switch is now more successful than Wii and PlayStation 4 in the United States because it sold more units in its first ten months than any home console in history, I would have been laughed out of the room and justifiably so.
Damn! On a much smaller user base too. Looks like Sony has a big hit on their hands though
Yes, Sony and Nintendo are killing it this gen, wish MS do the same, more first party games is better.
Basically, Zelda is a launch title which will limit it's day/month 1 potential. This applies to all games that launch on a console early on and I think people know what you're trying to say.
With that said, GoW seems like it beats out most Nintendo games historically save for Smash Brawl and Pokemon. Very impressive first month for the game.
As you've already seen, right now, it did not:
5m in a month. Huh. How do you figure gow sold more?
Sounds like it did not
We actually don't know how many units Super Mario Odyssey sold in its entire first month on the market. We know the first few days and the first two months, but nothing in-between other than "a lot".
I guess you're right. My bad. No way to tell. But gow is up there with a handful of Nintendo exclusive titles that can move a ton of units in a short period of time. Not many exclusives can do that
With "right now" I mean:
We have the "3 days" numbers for both. And we have the "2 months" numbers for Mario.
So now wait another month for GOW and let's see how it looks like for both.
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Why they hell am I even doing this and compare GOW's incredible sames numbers with SMO's numbers? lmao.
Let's end this.
We have the "3 days" numbers for both. And we have the "2 months" numbers for Mario.
So now wait another month for GOW and let's see how it looks like for both.
edit.
Why they hell am I even doing this and compare GOW's incredible sames numbers with SMO's numbers? lmao.
Let's end this.
Soooo... When are we getting that sequel?
I feel like it's going to be one of the most anticipated sequels ever when they'll announce it, and the expectations are going to be huge after the standard and the foundation GoW 2018 set, it's not gonna be easy for them.
Anyway I hope we can enjoy the sequel in this gen already, though I know chances aren't high and we will probably have to wait for next gen for this. I wish development time wasn't so long :/
I feel like it's going to be one of the most anticipated sequels ever when they'll announce it, and the expectations are going to be huge after the standard and the foundation GoW 2018 set, it's not gonna be easy for them.
Anyway I hope we can enjoy the sequel in this gen already, though I know chances aren't high and we will probably have to wait for next gen for this. I wish development time wasn't so long :/
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Historically, Nintendo games aren't frontloaded, I doubt GOW will have legs like Nintendo games have
The only numbers we have...
Mario: 2m (3 days), 7.5m (2 months)
GoW: 3.1m (3 days), 5m (1 month)
With these numbers looks like they are close a launch advantage for GoW... if it could sell over 2.5m in the second month then the launch advantage carried.
What is the context? People bought a Switch and Zelda at launch? How does that make Zelda sales more impressive exactly?
Like that haven't been said many times before, I like how you make it sound otherwise.
Any user that would claim this shouldn't be taken seriously. Same as the type of user who looks at a single month of data with zero context and comes to some of the conclusions made in this thread.
Or even a season pass or DLC (which I'd gladly take for this game, don't get me wrong). But this is a rare old-school single player game with the good ole business model from the offline gaming era.
Thats what I like to hear. Nice. Well deserved as the game was amazing. So hype for dlc and/or sequels
And what are the chances of that to happen? GoW is the only game outside of the 2 Nintendo games to surpass the 93 score this gen.
Do you realize how rare it is? in 5 years no one had done this.
Spiderman looks awesome but it won't get above 93, it probably won't get to the 9 area as well.
:(((
I think GoW may slow down faster because of competition from many games (Detroit for example releasing now) and not having a period like BF or holidays when consoles and games usually sell more than in spring or summer.
Where did you see that, the only source i see is 7.5 million from end of october to beginning of feburary.
It's not gonna have only a 50% drop in the second month, expecially since second week was very good with the data we have.
That's an impressive performance but Mario definitively win this.
Nah, Nintendo himself annunced it sold 2 million first 3 days.
Ubisoft have been killing it this gen too, pretty much constant great selling games every year.
Sony in general too, pretty much every returning franchise has broke records and their new stuff has mostly been success.
Only if it wasn't true, nothing wrong to compare sales launch aligned and see which is doing better.
I agree with you, if they had a juicy expansion like with Horizon, I would pre order it right now, I wish that would be their next project, to release an expansion next year and than start working on GoW 2, much preferable than to wait for a sequel in 2021/2022 without anything to play until than.
Probably not, I was just comparing the actual data we have based on what others were posting.
I'm not even sure why Nintendo is being discussed here, but I wasn't surprised to see that being the case.
When you compare launch-aligned numbers, extrapolate those numbers, and then conclude that one franchise is now bigger than another, that's not what is happening. It's disingenuous in the same way claiming the Switch is now a more successful platform than PS4 based on 10 month US launch-aligned numbers is.
