God of War surpasses 5 million units sold in the first month

God of War is a smash hit of the highest magnitude. Following on from the title’s impressive launch, where it sold 3.1 million units in just three days, PlayStation chief John Kodera has revealed that its numbers have now surpassed five million units in its first month on sale. To put this into perspective, it’s already more or less matched God of War III's lifetime total, which was the franchise’s commercial high-point previously. Similarly, it took Horizon: Zero Dawn a year to achieve sales in the region of 7.6 million.

It’s clear that the success of the PlayStation 4 is helping Sony’s exclusives this generation. While the company has set the quality bar extremely high, the platform holder’s titles never took off quite like this on the PlayStation 3, but its brands are really becoming juggernauts now. Next up is Spider-Man, which is almost certain to do well. And a little further afar, would anyone really bet against The Last of Us: Part II matching these numbers – or perhaps even surpassing them?

It even outsold Uncharted 4 in the same timeframe.

Source: http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/05/god_of_war_surpasses_5_million_units_in_a_month

That's incredible! Well done to the team!

For 80m PS4s, it's not much to be honest. Still sold well though relative to other exclusives.

I'm a X1 gamer,but still happy for PS4 players. Successful games,everyone wins in my opinion.

It turned out to be one of my favourite games in a while, and I was worried about the severe departure from the classic gameplay. It wasn't perfect, but it was an excellent reboot.

There are 4 billion people with access to audio devices, an artist selling a million copies of an album in a week is not much to be honest.

Lol, this new method of damage control is quite entertaining

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Good stuff for a Mature rated game.

Percentage wise it's pretty shameful. This is the only business where capturing 5 million of your 80 million users is somehow a success.

Any other business that would be shameful and a downright failure.

@Random_Matt: I really hope you're joking.

@Bread_or_Decide: They literally just gave you an example in the music industry. Movies is another. You should probably elaborate further on the point you are trying to push.

Something something 80 mil. Something something percent. Flop.

Btw can someone give this games to me for free? It's way too expensive in my country. :'(

The music industry doesn't sell you the music devices. (At least not anymore.) That's a stupid comparison. Not apt.

@Bread_or_Decide: The person you responded to, did you read what you quoted?

If you sell a million copies in the music industry youre considered a success. Even though there are billions of potential customers. In the movie industry they are happy if they sell 15-20 million blu rays even though there are 500+ million potential buyers.

Perfectly valid comparison that youre purposely avoiding. So heres an easier question, which exclusive was a sales success in your opinion? And what number of sales would GoW have had to move in order to be a success to you?

I never thought it would come to a day when the PS4 mainstays are slapping the Xbox's titles around. Congrats Sony. Game of year all the way.

Dad of war doing work. Great stuff the game deserves to surpass UC4, HZD, Looks like its on pace to do that. It is also beating the shit out of its historical past. Ps4 is being good to these none ND, PD first party. Next up its Sucker Punch's turn.

Cows were hungry for a new decent game

Well deserve.. This game is awesome!

But but but single player games are dead..PS exclusives don't sell wow it outsold Halo 5 without even trying in its first month..lol

Well done, Sony. I still haven't had the chance to play it yet but I definitely can't wait.

does anyone actually have any stats on precedents set when it comes to games sold vs user base size.

uncharted 3 sold 4 million in one day but what was the user base size of the ps3 at the time? halo 3 sold nearly 3 million in a day, but how many 360s were there at the time etc.

The user base damage control is one of the saddest thing I've ever seen in here.

@Macutchi: no, they do not, because success is not measured by user base, this is a narrative that Lems and hermits are trying to push, but they're failing as usual.

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@Gamerno6666: where do you live?

@recloud: Bangladesh

@SolidGame_basic: I'll let SW decide.

God of War PS4 was by far my favorite PS4 game yet, it's on par with Horizon: Zero Dawn for me that is. This is how you do a proper reboot series and not like what Gears of War 4 did. Kratos was more Human then I could ask for because him, being mad all the damn time was getting old and it wouldn't work in this game at all. His Son was more interesting as the game went on and he proves to be very helpful in combat.

Glad to see my favorite game so far surpassing 5 million units sold and exclusive games still matters, even single player is still a must! Let's hope this is a wake up call for other game developers that a good single player can still lead to great sales.

I personally find sales of exclusives more interesting than multi-platform games like Grand Theft Auto V.

Can God of War reach ten million copies worldwide and reach Gran Turismo sales levels?

@davillain-: agreed. Gears 4 was such a letdown. Felt like I was back in 2008 again. Just a stale series.

Shouldn't we be more interested the estimated production/marketing cost vs estimated profits (say $ 30-60 x units sold) than the % of who purchased across the entire PS4 userbase?

How safe is it to say that Sony spent close to $ 100m for GoW?

Wrong! Halo 3 sold 3.3 million in 12 days :

http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/10/18/halo-3-sells-over-3-million-units-in-12-days

Compared to GOWs 3.1 million in first 3 days.

Caught in his lie, I love it.

PlayStation owners are not a hivemind of soft heqded followers like the Xbox fans salty over attach rates. Suburbanite white fly over state box one owners aren't supposed to understand.

Time to reflect on Xbox users bragging about Halo 5 selling 5 million copies in 3 months like it was the greatest achievement in gaming history LOL.

Man how the the narrative changes for these guys.

bu but MP multiplats are all gamers care about today?

@tgob89 said:

Time to reflect on Xbox users bragging about Halo 5 selling 5 million copies in 3 months like it was the greatest achievement in gaming history LOL.

Man how the the narrative changes for these guys.

bu but MP multiplats are all gamers care about today?

? TLHBO!!

"? Bu...bu...bu....bu....bu.....but SP games are irrelevant!!1"

? F***ing REKT!

So GOW outsold Halo 5 lieftime sales in less than a month? LMFAO!!

God of War and Uncharted 4 outsold Halo 5. Horizon and GT Sport outsold Gears 4.

I thought Halo and Gears were the most popular exclusives? What happened?

I think it's safe to say, the war has ended. There are no excuses or circular arguments to be had. Xbox dun goofed and consequences have not been the same.

? TV?

so..... 3 million in 3 days. and then 2 million in 27 days?

that drop off! wow. no wonder santa monica stayed quiet.

The salt is real, LMFAO! How many has Floplo 5 sold? GOW just outsold its lifetime sales in 27 days lol...cry harder!

? The damage control keeps getting more and more ridiculous by the day as PS4 and its stellar exclusives continue to embarrass the FlopBox One and its rabid fans.

Also, with so many good games to choose from, and people having very different preferences, of course they wouldn't expect a game to necessarily sell to half of the user-base or whatever to be considered very successful.

Over all of the past generations, I've never seen this claim being pushed over and over of multi-million selling games not being considered big successes just because of a huge console user-base, whether it be PS1, PS2, Wii/PS3/Xbox 360, etc. It seems to have been coming up just very recently.

On top of that, this GoW is about to easily be the highest selling GoW already and yet it should still be much higher or is not much to some? At this point, some people are not being honest with themselves, others are just trolling.

? It's the new damage control these Xthots came up with to help themselves sleep better at night.

They can't argue the quality argument since Xbone is getting destroyed there and they certainly can't argue their games are selling better so this is the new damage control, it's pathetic.

GTA San Andreas sold a whopping 17 million copies on the PS2 on a userbase of 155 million. That's only 11% of the PS2 userbase that bought the game. Does this mean that GTA San Andreas didn't sell well? According to the moronic arguments from these Xthots GTA San Andreas and every other game that isn't Wii Sports is a flop because it didn't sell to over 50% of a console's userbase. A totally idiotic argument to be making and one born out of total desperation.

Shouldn't you be taping your $80 cardboard back together?

5 million in 30 days is obviously excellent and only accomplished by a small number of titles, especially those limited by being available only on a single platform.

As for attach rate, one has to be careful about timeframe and other variables, including other quality options in the same release time, time of year, etc.

Moreover, attach rate is a better indicator of overall platform health at the macro level than it is for any one particular game. For instance, platform A has an attach rate of 5.5 games per console sold vs platform B which has a rate of 3.0. That tells you something meaningful vs one game over a short time period.

so now because we dont have a game of equal caliber we cant clearly call out the obvious?

don't think so. people can point out flaws and hidden facts either way.

mario tennis demo is out today so i will be playing that tonight. it's MP player game. The ones sony dont have much of. So it might provide more hours than god of war if i like it.

Very impressive and well deserve.......it is amazing game and a true masterpiece for the PS4.

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I'm one of those sales. Not my kind of game (too linear for my tastes), but I was happy to support such hard work. You can really tell that they put a TON of effort into this project. A well deserved milestone!