God of War's PS4 Gameplay Video Is Now Sony's Most Viewed Trailer

A new beginning

by Sammy Barker Wed 21st Dec 2016

Love him or loathe him, Kratos is unquestionably a big deal – and that's proven by the fact that the first gameplay footage of God of War's reboot has now climbed to the top of PlayStation's official YouTube channel. Previously, the most viewed game trailer on Sony's account was Final Fantasy VII Remake, but the bearded badass overtook Cloud and crew in the early hours of this morning.

With a whopping 14.3 million views at the time of typing, it's clear that the axe-wielding ex-deity still has significant draw. It's worth pointing out that there are trailers on the manufacturer's channel with more views, but these either pertain to the PlayStation 4 itself or have been boosted by pre-roll ads. God of War's success appears to be entirely organic.

And it bodes well for the full game, which is sure to be a humongous seller. We probably won't be seeing any more of the title until E3 2017, but whatever Sony Santa Monica's got in the pipeline is sure to drop jaws. It's nice to see the decision to move in a new direction rewarded for once, as well.

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AlejandroMora
Wed 21st Dec 2016

Cant wait to get my hands on this

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get2sammyb
Wed 21st Dec 2016

Spider-Man is climbing up the most viewed bracket as well. That's also going to be a huge game.

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Ralizah
Wed 21st Dec 2016

Another 2018 game, I guess. It seems like 2018 is when a lot of these big Western games will be releasing.

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get2sammyb
Wed 21st Dec 2016

@Ralizah Yeah, I think 2018 for this one for sure.

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wiiware
Wed 21st Dec 2016

Man ps4 has some amazing big 1st party titles, from god of war to spiderman to gran turismo to last of us 2, the future look bright

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Mega-Gazz
Wed 21st Dec 2016

@get2sammyb Spiderman is a game based on a non-gaming franchise, which is always an uphill battle - they usually flop because you spend too much time being true to the franchise and not enough making a good game. Hopefully insomniac can do it well.

God of War OTOH is a game franchise and I have much higher hopes for it, especially with this new direction.

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Dodoo
Wed 21st Dec 2016

Loved this trailer. Love this series. Can't wait to see more. Hopefully that will happen before E3 though...

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wiiware
Wed 21st Dec 2016

@Mega-Gazz I have high hopes on spiderman because there are good spiderman games already on console and insomniacs already have the expertise on making game about travelling (sunset overdrive).

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Wesker
Wed 21st Dec 2016

I've watched this a few times myself. Really like the look of this as a long time God of War fan.

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Bread-Not-Toast
Wed 21st Dec 2016

No surprise considering it looks phenomenal

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Flaming_Kaiser
Wed 21st Dec 2016

@ZurapiiYohane64 GOW 3 remaster is so cheap and the game was great on the PS3 maybe you coulissen try that one.

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banacheck
Wed 21st Dec 2016

I would love to see a remake of both God Of War 1 & 2, 3 doesn't need touching now being on the PS4. People that play this new God Of War could very well end up wanting to play the originals, so it would be a smart move.

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DerMeister
Wed 21st Dec 2016

@ZurapiiYohane64 I know how you feel. I've seen the first game in action when it first came out, but I've never played any of the games. There's the God of War Saga on PS3, a collection of the two remaster collections and the 3rd game (though the origins collection is download only instead of on disc). I plan on getting a new copy of that if possible.

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KingSimba
Wed 21st Dec 2016

I think the reason why is that God of War is a well known IP worldwide, with the outstanding sales of the PS4 [50M], think many people just type God of War in the search bar and it is up as the first result. I myself can't wait, looks very promising.

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Gamer83
Wed 21st Dec 2016

@DLB3
Crash Bandicoot was definitely the face of PlayStation in the PSone days. I'd agree it's probably Kratos now. Some people love to hate, whether it's because he's 'too angry' or the sex mini-games or other stupid crap, but the God of War games have been pretty damn great and they sell millions for a reason. I prefer Uncharted myself but there's no denying by the numbers that the God of War series is probably more popular.

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Gamer83
Wed 21st Dec 2016

@DLB3
I didn't even consider Gran Turismo. That's probably the flagship PlayStation series. 6 bombed pretty hard compared to 5 which sold over 10 million copies but there were extenuating circumstances around the release of 6, one of which being the arrival of PS4 and the fact 6 seemed very half assed. I think Sport will sell better though I do hope the delay was to turn into the full-fledged GT 7.

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ReigningSemtex
Thu 22nd Dec 2016

I have loved all the God of war games but this looks like it's taking things to a whole new level of awesome

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Gamer83
Thu 22nd Dec 2016

@DLB3
I'm going to guess we don't see GT Sport again until E3, and if we're lucky it'll hopefully seem like a much more complete game by then. I would also love to see the series return to greatness, it's actually been a really long time, imo. Last GT I truly enjoyed was 3. At least with this God of War game, even if I'm still not 100% sold on the more Naughty Dog approach (love the ND approach but only for ND games), it looks like it'll be a worthwhile entry in the God of War series.