God of War Ragnarok sells 15+ million copies! Gives away free DLC.

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/12/07/god-of-war-ragnarok-valhalla-dlc-revealed-coming-december-12/

As of November 19, God of War Ragnarök has sold through more than 15 million units worldwide across PS4 and PS5.

To show our appreciation for the incredible support and love you’ve given the game since its release last year, our team has been working on a surprise for the God of War community.

As fans of our fans, we’re thrilled to announce that on December 12*, we’ll be releasing a free DLC as a gift to our players – God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla.

Congratulations to Sony/Santa Monic for 15 million units sold! And to show their gratefulness, they're giving away this nice DLC out in just a a few days. Will you be checking this out, SW? I think I will!

I rather liked that God of War Ragnarok advertised free DLC. It would appear it's some type of rogue mode where you start with nothing and the longer you fight the more you can unlock and fight with...

God of Wars recent two games are great. Gameplay is great, story is great. It outshines all of sonys exclusive games.

Pretty amazing and the DLC sounds pretty interesting and yeah am shocked that’s it’s free! Guess SM haven’t received the Sony memo about milking their fan base for every penny!

That's great and I'm very happy for the talented folks at Santa Monica, but what have you done for me lately, Sony?

Anything?

Buehler? Buehler?

Yeah, exclusivity sucks.

Those sales would probably be 25 million if it was on PC.

Wonder what the total sales of the first game were at this point.

@mrbojangles25: they handled the first game very well... Put it on PC so we can buy it Sony.... Microsoft does. They don't insist we own an Xbox.... Why must we own a Playstation? Put it on PC!

Nu-GoW is the worst when it comes to Sony's movie game offerings.

doesn't PC have a lot of issues with pirating? why don't people want to compensate developers?

If I tried super hard to think of the most generic, predictable, boring ass name for my DLC to GoW Ragnarok, I'd pick Valhalla.

@mrbojangles25: Watch out for that bait.🙃

I noticed something strange. TC hasn't made a thread about Kojima's new "game yet". Quite the change from the past. What's different this time!

Oh stop it now... Games sell great on PC. Especially now that more casual devices like steam deck are taking hold. The underbelly of the hobby isn't keeping Sony from cashing huge checks off the sales of their pc offerings.

Sony's business strategy is built around the need to own the box. It's been the way forever... In today's world though most gamers want less bottlenecks between our games. It'll be interesting to see if Sony is able to ride that strategy into the future.

Kudos to Santa Monica. I did enjoy the previous God of War game and am looking forward to playing Ragnarok. It was nice of them to throw out a bit of free dlc for it.

I’m stoked to play the free DLC

I don’t blame Sony for prioritizing PlayStation over PC. Their fans are the ones that have been supporting them and making them the number 1 console system for generations. PC gamers are good with waiting, so it’s a win-win. I’m sure if at some point PC takes over, Sony will be all over that. Xbox is in a different position. They’re owned by Microsoft, who has an inherit interest in the PC/mobile business. Nintendo is worse than Sony when it comes to locking away games. Why does Sony get the brunt of the criticism? Nintendo is the one that’s doing extremely well right now.

SONY in synonymous with world class gaming and this shows that they are also a caring. giving company.

If GoW2018 is a 9.5/10, Ragnarok is an 8/10. They didn't go anywhere with the story, Kratos was pussied out, and for hyping Odin as much as they did for two games straight, not only was his fight dogshit, but most importantly, there was nothing impressive or memorable about the fight. All i am saying here is that if Cory Barlog isn't in charge of the next gow, i'll go ape shit nuclear. Eric Williams blows, don't write my games, bro.

I don't disagree about Nintendo. The two Japanese companies see their propriatery boxes as the gateway to their ecosystem... The American company sees it differently. Microsoft has been playing by the established console generation rules for three cycles, but their long term play is based around services and software. Be everywhere and on everything, rsther than, "sorry, you can't play unless u own our box"... It's the biggest discrepancy between ideologies... One faction argues for a traditional metric of success, while another sees their box as one element of their success and not the path forward.

Yeah, it's another feather in the Sony cap for gaming now made even better. Good shit

15 million is not surprising really given the success of the predecessor. I haven't bought the game yet, and I am not buying it for my ol' PS4.

Yes, but how many enemies were killed with the blades of chaos?

Just wanted to quickly slide in, and remind everyone that if Bethesda/MS were confident with their Starfield numbers, we'd know them🤣

Less than a 10% attachment rate, no wonder Sony is going the PC and gaas route as cows just aren't buying their games.

Can't wait to get back in. Hope we get a teaser of what Atreaus is up to

15 million sales is not bad.

Free DLC is even better.

@SolidGame_basic: Needs two consoles to do it.

Oh, and the best selling game on Playstation is an Xbox game.

That's gotta suck for you cows.

It just means that consumers prefer to play an Xbox game on a PlayStation than an Xbox. It wouldn’t be so bad if MS was a 3rd party developer, but to have a console out and to advertise this is just lol worthy against MS.

@ermacness: I got whiplash from that spin.

Sales are sales, and pirates are not potential sales as they don't buy games. It's a flawed argument you make, and the success of Spider-Man, Horizon: Zero Dawn, God of War, Days Gone, Helldivers, and other Sony titles disproves it. I think you know this, though 😉😋

You want to sell 15 million on PS only, or 25 million on PS and PC? That's the only question.

Still waiting on an Infamous collection to get ported to PC, man that'd be awesome and sell well.

Yeah and TBH with how many games are released these days (and good ones, too) I'm fine with waiting, especially if they iron out the bugs and incorporate some DLC for "free" (like they did with Horizon: Zero Dawn on PC).

I get the business sense of a timed exclusive as well and can even stomach it for a period of time, but I wish it wasn't so long.

There's a lot of good developers out there that specialize in ports, seems like a simple thing to spend a bit of cash, get the game ported in good condition to PC, and then make even more money.

God of War: Ragnarok was the sole reason for me picking up PS5, I'm so ready to replay Ragnarok for the DLC. Glad to hear it's selling well beyond Santa Monica's expectations. Will double-dip whenever the PC version is ready for release.

Even tho Xbox exclusives are on two platforms, nothing across this whole generation will reach 15M copies sold on the green side. Now that you know this, just think of how pathetic this sounds.

The CoD will easily sell well above that number every year.

^ lol desperation

15 million units sold for a story game not named GTA.

Incredible numbers and well done to SSM for creating one of the best games of the decade.

If only it didn't release in the year of Elden Ring.

Bought Ragnarok last year now with the DLC gives me a reason to go back to the game.

@Mozelleple112: It's a PS4/5 game, and there are over 160 million PS4/5's in the wild, and you think the numbers are "incredible" that's around 1/10 people bought the game, and that's lifetime sales, so a lot was not bought at full price.

That's incredibly low, no wonder Sony are looking to sell its games on PC as cows aren't holding up their part of the bargain.

ironically that's how many chests you open in the Game...go figure!

Your obsession with attachment rate is honestly ridiculous.

What number would satisfy you?

The reason I ask is because you'll be hard pressed to find many games with a significantly higher attachment rate.

This is a flawless example of who's playing CoD. When you have this demographic, not only will you sell more copies, but you can charge $100 for standard edition, and still sell a shitload, and because that's not enough, selling $20-30 skins will also be fine.

Self respecting gamers that are into GoW, will never get f*cked by trash like the CoD crew, so yes, of course easy to manipulate clueless casuals will give you more sales🤷‍♂️You're not saying anything new.

Was expecting much higher sales numbers but you can't complain about free dlc. Good move.

(Dude)Bro, CoD's largest audience is on PS.

15 million copies is legitimately insane.

That’s actually low considering they forced gsmers to buy it through the PS5 bundle.

The PC release is rumored to come out in 2024 so I plan on picking it up then. The first one was fantastic.

Great numbers. Downloaded the Valhalla dlc can’t wait to play this weekend

@pc_rocks said:

@hardwenzen said:

@pc_rocks said:

@hardwenzen said:

Even tho Xbox exclusives are on two platforms, nothing across this whole generation will reach 15M copies sold on the green side. Now that you know this, just think of how pathetic this sounds.

The CoD will easily sell well above that number every year.

This is a flawless example of who's playing CoD. When you have this demographic, not only will you sell more copies, but you can charge $100 for standard edition, and still sell a shitload, and because that's not enough, selling $20-30 skins will also be fine.

Self respecting gamers that are into GoW, will never get f*cked by trash like the CoD crew, so yes, of course easy to manipulate clueless casuals will give you more sales🤷‍♂️You're not saying anything new.

(Dude)Bro, CoD's largest audience is on PS.

Who said that they aren't? Ever since the Xbone failed hard, they migrated.

great game. Just underwhelmed towards the end. I mean they could have made the last battle on asgard more epic.

You don’t seem to complain about Nintendo including bundles in their numbers 😎

@SolidGame_basic: don’t bother. The lems and Nintendo fanboys are super butthurt at PS’s success so they lash out