The final sales reports for 2020 are in, and The Last of Us: Part II is now officially the best-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive of the year across the US. It took third place in the overall sales chart for PlayStation 5 and PS4 software, beaten only by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima was right behind it in fourth while Final Fantasy VII Remake also puts in an appearance in sixth place. PS5 and PS4 game Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales web-swings into seventh place and MLB The Show 20 rounds out the Sony-published titles in ninth.
That means the Japanese giant put out almost half of the best-selling PS5 and PS4 games for 2020 — an achievement worth commending. Naughty Dog must also be chuffed with the high placement of its PS4 follow-up. The developer just started advertising for open positions on its next big project, so expect that title to rank highly on the corresponding sales chart for the year it launches too.
How many of these PS5, PS4 titles did you buy? Post your list in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Wait...I thought it flopped harder than any game ever and nobody bought it cause the whole world hated it?
(I'm sorry)
Fully deserved! Brilliant game!
@BranJ0
You forgot to add GoT is better then TLOU Part 2.
(Grabs my popcorn)
Edit: How the hell is Madden 21 in the top 5 no one buys it because its so bad and its the same thing every year...
Edit 2: Own all but 3 on the list. Marvel Avengers and the two call of duties...
@Gaming365247 Same reason FIFA is always on top in Europe probably.
@Octane
True probably
I preordered the digital version and there's no refund policy on psn, I don't think I'll ever preordered a digital games again. It's easy to get huge first month sales when the game is sequels to one of sony 1st party exclusive best selling game of all time, and all the trailers and game reviewers hiding the fact that's half the game is spend on another characters that most players didn't care. Just like cyberpunk 2077 hide the true state of the game, and cdp got 13M sales from unsuspecting gamers.
Also my local store didn't stock the game anymore, but weirdly there's new stock of the first game and ghost of tsushima lol.
Well it’s not a bad game by any means and had the advantage to be the sequel of the first game which is a masterpiece but in my opinion it was a horrible sequel story wise
If you didn't like the story ND told in TLoU2 that's fine. Its not because ND got it wrong it's because you did. It wasn't your story to tell.
@wiiware I love how hard you're trying to spin this. Face it dude the game sold very well, was liked or loved by the majority, won many GOTY awards including those voted by the fans and overall was one of the biggest games of last gen. Its fine you can hate it but trying to spin anything into a bad thing with the game just because you hate it just makes us laugh at you,
@wiiware your comment is one giant, ill-conceived, self absorbed assumption concocted to assuage your buyers remorse and your misplaced sense of entitlement over how ND should've told the story to suit your expectations.
@WallyWest
He must be on team orange man bad too.....
@BranJ0 No, it wasn’t that. It’s that those of us who didn’t like it WON’T purchase future ND titles off blind faith anymore.
I bought every ND title from Uncharted 2 onward including TLoU2. I didn’t like it and will definitely have to research their upcoming game before I purchase whatever it is.
I’m this way with CDPR as well now.
@Gaming365247. I agree with you ghost is better.but the chiefs is also better than your clown s i mean brown.haha.chiefs up.and shout out to Michigan wolverines.word up son
@OmegaStriver ridiculous. CDPR released a broken, unfinished game. ND's crime? They told a story you didn't like. By all means stop preordering, thats totally sensible and I agree, but to lump ND in the same basket as CDPR is nonsense.
@Hyperluminal Lol, we got it wrong because some of didn’t like.
Just go ahead and say that there is a required IQ to be able to understand the glory and depth of TLoU2.
I completely understood it. I didn’t like it.
@Hyperluminal Two companies released games I didn’t like for different reasons and I don’t plan to buy their future games on blind faith.
Sounds reasonable to me to lump them together.
Interesting Avengers made the top 10, shows how hard the playerbase fell then really. Nice to Spider-Man make it, currently playing the PS4 version and its brilliant.
Ghost, FFVII and Spiderman (not played yet), 2020 was really about the back log.
they love a good murder sim
I'm actually more surprised to see ffvii re at rank 6
Currently doing my first play through of Last of Us 2. And honestly I can say that the game is fantastic. Definitely would have been my game of the year had I played it last year.
@playstation1995 Still bitter I see. If the Browns are Clowns what does that make the Squealers, I mean Steelers?
😝
Both Part II and Ghost of Tsushima are great.
Final Fantasy VII will be my next new game and will definitely be playing Miles Morales when I finally get hold of a PS5.
See? It is possible to play nice on here.
😉
One day there will be an article that mentions TLoU2 and/or Naughty Dog and a certain 'wee' poster won't feel the need to bitch and whine.
Well, we can live in hope!
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@wiiware
Cry me a River. Aren't you bored yet, we all are
@Col_McCafferty
Lol dont hurt hes feelings hes just mad nintendo doesn't have any good exclusives to fight over. They do hades but its a timed exclusive. Though hades did do better then GoT oops did i say that out loud.
Nah it fell off after launch. Everyone knows that. I asked if they had any copies at Walmart the other day and the associate literally punched me and asked me to leave. Literally.
@Col_McCafferty. Pittsburgh still the best nfl franchise haha.chiefs will blow them out.and packers and chiefs will play for the superbowl.word up son
Lol guess people are finally bored of the so called hate for the game this thread wont reach 200 post like every other ND/TLOU Part 2 thread. Thank god.
Oops never mind as post this... Again i am ashamed to call myself a PlayStation fan.
I remember that when this game came out and people complained about the plot, the twists, the crunch, the trans character, they said that cyberpunk 2077 would show Naughty Dog how’s it’s done.
How’d that work out?
@Thelegend159
Facts
When the current sales figures are reported by Naughty Dog, everyone who thinks this game didn’t sell well will be shocked by the number.
@OmegaStriver So TLOU 2. Has turned you from a person that blindly buys games to a person who does a bit of research before buying. Welcome to the club. You'll enjoy your games more from now on 👍
Nice... well deserved.
Now 100 mental acrobatics on how every metric that would proclaim any other game a masterpiece - now do not apply to TLOU2
Hopefully ND got the message (it was just a vocal minority) and an Abby DLC is on its way.
@Reyren. True.we will see.word up son
Great news for the Last of us 2, which for me was Sony’s best game that they have ever made.
Apparently (also according to the NPD group) TLOU2 is now Sony's 3rd best selling game ever (in $ sales), only behind God Of War and Marvel's Spider-Man.
So much for 'hard flop' and 'disappointing sales' theories.
@Saucymonk This only applied to a VERY FEW select developers.
Just literally finished LoU2 and absolutely loved it.
Amazing
The story wasn't what I expected but that was what made it even more interesting.
I loved Abby, strong and brutal.
Great stuff.
Where’s factions?
@TheLightSpirit @Hyperluminal @WallyWest @gingerfrog ND still owes me $60 for that fake trailers and dishonest reviews so nah, I'm not bored yet. With cyberpunk 2077 at least cdp offer a refund, so I think I'm still gonna play around in tlou 2 news here. When ND make a new good game, I'll buy it used and sells it, then I'll stop complaining about tlou 2 news lol.
Btw, if you don't like my comment there's the option to ignore in this comment section, just use it. I'll never stop saying tlou 2 is a mess story wise, it's a porn misery, tumblr level story of bad fanfiction compared to the first game 🙂
And if you don't like what I said, what can I say beside: Cry More 👻
Wait, I thought Avenger’s flopped? Serious question, what happens with it?
How did Marvel's Avengers make the list??
The only one I have played is Black Ops:C old War. Though I intend on grabbing AC: Valhalla and GOT, sometime soon.
@wiiware:
"half the game is spend on another characters that most players didn't care."
You have a sad story, i almost cried. A character died, there are other important characters in the game. Bruh.
Most players understood and felt the story, and didn't want only a cheap fan service.
And as you can see, TLOU2 won 80+ reader's choice vote, so it seems to be we loved the game. https://www.gameawards.net/
@Shadow_Beast
Last of us part II: 3 days -> 4 million copies
Ghost of Tsushima: 4 months -> 5 million copies.
(TLOU2 was the third best selling PS game in US after 4 months in US after GoW and Spider-man.)
Is it a short gap? Nope.
GoT is a very good game, and a cool new IP, but TLOU2 is a better game in every way, and one of the strongest franchise of Sony, but with a sad alt-right sideattack when released. It won more than 80 players' choice vote (not editors'!) (Tsushima won 10), because normal gamers don't want to argue with aggressive haters.
I don't understand this pointless commenting about GoT is better, GoT is bigger. It's childish. Why so angry? Both of them are good games, you liked one of them, others liked the other, others liked both of them (and others liked none of them:).)
@wiiware If anyone is crying mate its you haha
@Shadow_Beast The US doesn't equal the world mate.
I'm playing GoT at present and really enjoying it. I also loved The Last of Us Part II. Both examples of Sony games at their best. I really don't understand why some on here seem to be obsessed with knocking one in order to praise the other. It really quite baffling and also very sad.
@Shadow_Beast:
1) Don't mix the alt-right hater campaign with the real gamers' opinion. Almost all of the haters haven't got even a PS4. But we all know what was it. Check any Ps group or Last of us group. Yes, there are gamers who didn't like the story (but don't cry always), but the majority of the gamers or TLOU fans loved it. That's the fact, that's why it won the players' and editor's votes. Almost every last one of them.
2) LOL 2.0.:
Facts are facts. The 80% drop happened in Japan, and after a huge first week sales record. And it is a standard drop ratio for big games with huge 1st week sales, especially for Naughty dog games. Uncharted 4 has almost the same 2nd week drop. Please, don't believe this kind of news without the background, and the real facts. We have internet to check any source. (And we have Hulk too.:
"3) Ghost of tsushima has beaten the digital sales of TLOU2 in the US. But somehow, the journalists aren't covering that."
And this arcticle is about the digital and physical sales together.
And check please the EU digital sales too, where GoT is very weak. It didn't get a place on the list.
TLOU2 won 240 GOTY (82 players' choice), GoT won 46 (10 players' choice).
I don't undersantand why do you swim against the facts.
I love Tsushima and TLOU2 too. Great games!
But i hate when people use Tsushima to hate TLOU2. This is a dispispect and humiliation towards Sucker Punch.
(Btw, i personally disliked the new God of War, because the lack of madness and grandiosity of GOW III. But i accept the new direction, slower pace. don't need to justify my opinion.) These are just games.
People who so desperately want to tell TLOU is a piece of *****, are not PS gamers and don't care gaming, but political ideologies. But we all know it.
@Arugula @Grogu @TheLightSpirit @WallyWest In the end we should just agree to disagree, I won't change your opinion, and you won't change my opinion either. I hope in the future sony offers refund like in steam and epic games store so something like this won't happen again.
I don't think I'll be this disappointed in this game if sony offer refund (and I'll buy it later at $20), or just be honest about the story (that the half is old chara story, the other half is new chara story). Tlou 2 will be forever my most disappointment sequel ever, and looking at the sales after the first month, yeah I don't think I'm alone at this.
ps. I wonder why everytime I said I don't like tlou 2, it's fans suddenly reply and protest my comment, I don't think other games fans is like that, even when I said I don't enjoy zelda botw (because of wepon degradation) there's no zelda fans that says I'm wrong, they just tell me why they like it (or ignore the system and just have fun using whatever weapon they have). You guys need to realize that other people can have different opinion than you, life will be really difficult if you always attack people that have different opinion than you.
@wiiware sorry, could read what you said. It was all smudged from you crying as you wrote it.
@Hyperluminal Sigh, I think I'll ignore all of tlou 2 fanboys that can only attack the person and not discussing the game, welcome to my ignore list.
Especially a new account that's only made for simping tlou 2 I might add.
@wiiware seems to be a theme with you. Anything you don't like or don't agree with you wish to ignore or say its rubbish. Plus you can't take what you dish out. You tell people to 'cry more' but if you're told much the same you pout, throw your toys out of the pram, claim moral superiority and place people on ignore.
No wonder you didn't like ND's story, you lack imagination. As if ND should refund you because trailers didn't present the game you expected! 😆😆😆🙄
@Arugula I just don't like tlou 2 story, the gameplay is good though. I really like ghost, the story is good (not as good as tlou 1) and the gameplay is better than both tlou 1 & 2, the open world aspect is a bit old school, but it's so polished so I don't mind that.
I hope someday sony offer refund, it's nice to buy games on steam because I can refund it if I don't like it. I think a lot of toxicity about disappointing games will be at least reduced if gamers can refund the game on digital store. Of course there should be time limit, 2 hours like steam is perfect.
@WallyWest a game selling well doesn't mean it's good, which the last of us part 2 is a good representation of
@Agramonte Vocal minority? You mean majority of the japanese players that didn't like the game.
@Envy The Japanese players?
This is what they are playing - Momotaro Dentetsu... yeah, lets use their taste in the West as a guide 🤦♂️
Japan is 8% of the PS4 base and and 7% of PS5 so far. They are a "minority" in general. And that is a good thing.
Actually that's not exactly true. The only sales data they give is sold to stores. They say that TLOU 2 sold 4 million the first week. But that was to stores. They did not sell through. I have a friend who works in a best buy. He said they got about 180 copies in when it released. After all this time there are still 95 copies left. We also know once people found out how they lied about Joel and what this game was all about sales fell off a cliff. Throughout the world, as pictures show there are 100s of copies available at stores collecting dust. That's why the price has dropped so dramatically so. The top ten digital downloads on the playstation store was released and Ghost of Tsushima beat TLOU2. And TLOU2 had an extra month on the market. Also Ghost Tsushina is still in the top ten im sales while TLOU2 dropped out months ago. Yes TLOU2 sold well to fans of the beloved first game at first. But once word got out about what the game was truly about sales slowed to a crawl. They can't give this game away now. While Ghost of Tsushima is still selling well. And will continue to sell well. Because it's not a divisive game disrespectful game. Ghost of Tsushima will end up outselling TLOU2 by a large margin when all is said and done.
The source of the haters- believe me bruh,my friend/relative work in best buy🤣🤣..
Also got and tlou 2 both are incredible games..beautiful and immersive in their own way...we ps people love both of them...why use one to disrespect others??
Haters will hate but won't matter at the end...
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