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Ghost of Tsushima has sold 6.5M copies since its launch
- Thread starter Maxwell Jacob Friedman
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do you have a source, only one I could find is this guy
that said it was at 6 to 7 million units in late december
he also seems to be the source of the ghosts of tsushima numbers
anyone know anything about him?
Mercenary09
Member
The source of Ghost's numbers are Sony which announced it in a blog post today. Benji only has access to some US data so he really doesn't know much about worldwide numbers. He only talks about them when they are announced by someone else. TLOU2's 7+ million was on Gamstat or whatever that site someone linked was. Again that was back in November before they stopped providing numbers.
Gamestat player numbers = Estimate based on new copies, 2nd hand copies, game sharing, PSN plus, and etc. So the sales numbers are certainly below than reported player numbers.
Woopah
Member
These numbers only came out because they announced a GoT movie today.
stitch1
Member
Just waiting for a good sale.The game deserve 20+ mil sales
for those who didn't buy it yet:
prinz_valium
Member
Nice, GZ
gamestat isn't a sales source, it is how many people played it, so used sales, multiple people playing it, etc all add to the count, like with days gone it was free as ps+ at one point, so it hasn't sold 9 million copies
SilentUser
Member
Still have to buy and play it 
one day I will, seems like that type of game that I adore.
one day I will, seems like that type of game that I adore.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Good stuff! Always feels good and wholesome when kickass games become succesful.
Hey Blinkin
Member
Easily my favorite game for the PS4.
I can't wait to see what they do with next gen hardware for the next game.
I can't wait to see what they do with next gen hardware for the next game.
Mercenary09
Member
Animal Crossing NH sold 9.1 million units at the end of December 2020 in Japan alone.
FatKingBallman
Banned
Awesome! But how many kunai knives was thrown? I think that's the most important metric
yeah were is a stupid info graphic with dumb stats like that, they're fun.
TLZ
Banned
9 million?? Reading posts here I thought it was a complete flop!
TLZ
Banned
Mate I thought the thing hardly sold a million, well based on negative posts here.
waiting for ps plus, microsoft and sony have trained me to never buy their games, their best will come to gamepass/ps plus/get dirt cheap (though ghosts is holding its value unusually well)The game deserve 20+ mil sales
for those who didn't buy it yet:
yeah well if we went by here, bloodborne would be sitting at 109324543572394879845 copies and call of duty and fifa would be at 6
Sander Cohen
Member
Some of those numbers on Gamestats for Sony first party games are astronomical. Spiderman and Uncharted 4 at 30M, TLOU at 44M and Horizon at 20. Since we know they didn’t sell that much, is this used copies market or gamesharing, what is it?
VFXVeteran
Banned
I don't know. I will only do analysis on games I have. I am not drawn to Days Gone tbh. We'll see.
Mercenary09
Member
A mix of all the above. Games like Uncharted 4 and TLOU have also been on PS+ so you have to factor in that 40+ million people had free access to them. Spider-Man and Horizon are impressive though as neither has been free yet. Horizon will be free next month via Play at Home though.
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No, 6.5 million copies is a really strong showing especially for a new ip
Edgelord79
Gold Member
One of the best games of last generation. To me the absolute best that PlayStation has to offer. What a game.
Sander Cohen
Member
Yup, forgot about PS+. Sooo, that makes Spiderman numbers really sick.
Sony’s consoles mainly serve as platform to play CoD, FIFA, NBA, GTA, Fortnite and other mass appeal games for vast majority of gamers. More enthusiastic crowd are drawn to their exclusives and they help build Sony’s reputation/image among general public. So, beside selling x number of copies, it creates image that Sony is always creating something new and exciting (progressing the medium), unlike their Japanese (so called) competitors who rehash same old franchises for the past 30 years, more or less.
geary
Member
Yea, but the main puah point for buying a PS console overr other platforms is their exclusives and this is always the main reason brought into conversation when deciding what to buy and now I se that one of the best games they published sold 7% of their total possible market. The exclusive part in the decision to buy PS seems to be almost irelevant now... So now, i wonder what pushes people to chose PS over the competitor. For me, these sales numbers were a bit surprising. I would have expected at least 25-30% of the market platform, meaning ~30 mil.
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Ghost certainly deserves to have sold so well, I need to get back to playing it on my PS5, but I have gotten distracted by a bunch of different titles.
I need to focus my attention and make an attempt to really clear my backlog, though I know that will never happen, not even if I lived a few lifetimes and new releases just stopped coming out.
I hope the GoT movie does the game justice, it could be great if handled right.
I need to focus my attention and make an attempt to really clear my backlog, though I know that will never happen, not even if I lived a few lifetimes and new releases just stopped coming out.
I hope the GoT movie does the game justice, it could be great if handled right.
Mercenary09
Member
Just because every PlayStation owner doesn't buy each exclusive doesn't mean that it isn't exclusives that drive people to PlayStation. A game like Gravity Rush may push someone to get a PlayStation but something like Ghost of Tsushima may not be appealing to that same person. Someone may be interested in Everybody's Golf but not God of War. It has always been Sony's diverse portfolio of exclusives that drive people to them along with third party games.
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Bo_Hazem
Banned
Wow! That's around $300-400M back in less than a year! Great numbers that would accelerate the sequel after such success.
Bo_Hazem
Banned
Infamous died to me when Cole died. The new pansy guy isn't cutting it to me.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Let's use that variance to estimate Days Gone numbers then.
Ghost of Tsushima
Confirmed sales = 6.5 million (as of Mar. 2021)
Gamstat = 5.8 million (as of Nov. 2020)
Variance = 12.07%
Days Gone
Confirmed sales = ?
Gamstat = 9 million (as of Nov. 2020)
Variance = 12.07%
Est. sales figure = Roughly above 10 million units (as of Mar. 2021)
More realistically, though, I think it will be at around 8-9 million units (which is pretty awesome!). Bringing it down from 10+ million units because of inflated player count due to its inclusion in the PS+ collection.
Additional Info (Days Gone):
- As of February 2020, if we calculate the numbers by the platinum trophy percentage, the player count was around 5.5 million.
- As of February 2020, Gamstat had listed 6.6 million players.
- Days Gone was the 8th best-selling in 2019 in the US, just behind RDR2 (which we now know have sold around 26 million copies)
- And UK was actually the best market for Days Gone, where it was the 2nd best selling game of 2019.
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Yeah, assuming it cost Sony $150m (which I don't think it would have because SP is a small-ish team), the ROI is still 300%.
Now, if the movie makes bank, a portion of that ROI would be attributed to the game. The game itself will easily cross 10M+. An ROI of 500-600% would be freakin' awesome for Sony. This will allow SP to grow quickly and release the sequel quicker. Perhaps, even make multiple projects too in the near future.