The Last of Us 2 Sets a New Record with 2.8 Million Digital Sales in June

Well deserved, awesome game, yet to finish it. I went digital with this, my first Sony first party digital preorder 👍

Fully deserved. An outstanding achievement for an outstanding game. Will be fascinating to see of anything can top these numbers during the PS5 life cycle.

Some quick calculations suggest this has more than doubled its estimated development costs already. A huge success.

Great result for a great game, I still think the first is better but I had loads of fun with this! When I say fun I mean I enjoyed playing it - the game itself was pretty bleak 😜

Well, of course!

It's a great game and every penny it earns is thoroughly deserved.

Hopefully everyone at ND gets to share in it's success and is rewarded accordingly.

Next game ND, less crunch....please.

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I'm confused, I thought women don't sell??????

As much as I enjoyed the game, I'm glad i bought physical, as I Platinumed it and sold it for £40!

This is just all the woke activists buying more than one copy.

Seriously though, the march to digital is undeniable. When large first party games rack up that many millions of digital sales it shows something. I wonder how much Covid 19 has helped to change the purchasing of games?

Maybe there are more people like me, preordered the digital version because the trailers looks good and it's ND, how can the game story might be bad?

Then I played the game and it's the most miserable experience I ever experienced playing games, I'm not interested in ND games again, ever. I wish I bought the physical version so I can sold it after I'm done with it.

Oh, and one more thing, what ND do to their trailers is scummy as heck, can you imagined the furor if marvel make normal next spider-man movie trailers and when the movie come out, spider-man only in the first 10 minutes of the movie and the movie is about totally different characters? Yeah, they will be sued for false advertising.

@playthedangame You're absolutely right. We can totally draw some general conclusions based on one game.

In the ever so wise words of Donald Trump:

"We are experiencing the coldest weather in more than two decades-most people never remember anything like this. GLOBAL WARMING anyone?"

Went physical now completed and resold to a friend. Normally go digital if open world and lots of exploring is involved.

Amazing game, worth every cent. I bought it physical, but for me is a collection game so I am not gonna sell it. Not so far from Platinum . Enjoy!

Amazing sales for an amazing game it’s easily goty so far

@wiiware, i know right Marvel would never do something like that with it's trailers like false advertising....
Cough cough https://youtu.be/n9DwoQ7HWvI Spiderman homecoming
https://youtu.be/TcMBFSGVi1c Avengers endgame
https://youtu.be/6ZfuNTqbHE8 Avengers infinity war
https://youtu.be/Nt9L1jCKGnE Spiderman far from home

This one is Sony pictures though
https://youtu.be/tg52up16eq0 Spiderman into the spiderverse

And i'm sure a ***** ton of others movies trailers do that

@wiiware Ha, what a snowflake!

@Col_McCafferty Is there a need for that? They had an opinion on the game and as humans, we are entitled to that. Not every one agrees.

I myself did not fully enjoy the game as I felt the story was really poorly told, mainly the second part and it is not because I dislike the character you play as before any one says that (getting sick of that comment).
I can sort of see why some (mainly the majority) enjoyed the story but for me, it just did not click. The only character I really felt sorry for was Alice 😅

Graphically it was great along with the game play. But the masterpiece part of this game, for me, was the sound design. I have never played a game like it where the use of sound was spot on.

It is a strange case with this game. it is the only game I can think of where having a negative opinion is 'wrong'? Very strange...

Will be curious to see how GOT will stack up against it, once we get to know digital sales. Just out of curiousity.
Another metric that'd be interesting to know about - for any game not just TLOU II - would be somehow to get Data from Sony how many people actually still play a game after a set amount of time.

@ZeD it's not that he doesn't like the game, it's his comment about never buying another Naughty Dog game. I think that's a tad pathetic.

I agree about the sound design as well as the music. It really elevated the emotion and tension in a lot of key scenes and sequences. Music and sound design is very much an underrated aspect of gaming if you ask me. All the talk is if graphics and frame rates and yet the sounds you hear can be equally as important when it comes to immersion.

Love this game ❤️ The best game this year so far 😊

For me, Ellie is keeping the 'game of the year' seat warm for V.

I love the game. Now I moved on with that other gem titled "GoT"

@Lobbo95 exactly!

I still can't believe how polarising it has been. Its a fantastic game for me, one of the greatest ever. Cant wait to see what a naughty dog new ip looks like.

@Lobbo95 I've seen spider-man homecoming, what's the problems with the trailers? It's about spider-man from the beginning to the end.

Spider-verse is awesome, the trailers itself says "it's not about me", and sure, it's about miles. But there's also, like, 6 others spider-man/girls, so it's actually over delivering the spiders lol 😂. But serious talk, this is how you handle the death of protagonist, I still think about that death when I leave the theater back then. Yeah the movie is super good.

@Col_McCafferty The first tlou open with the death of one of the characters and then later the protag started the important journey to bring cure of cordyceps for the human race, I didn't know the second is about petty revenge and teens drama.

I guess it's my fault trusting ND trailers and skipping all the spoilers. I know about the death btw, I have no problems with revenge story if it's good.

well deserved for sure. Not sure it will get GOTY though... GoT is looking mightly awesome ATM and damn it's gorgeous and the battles are o so satisfying!!

Go woke go broke, right? 🤭😂

Digitally pre-ordered.
Game of the year for me, no doubts.

Wanna save some replayability to run it one more time on my future to be PS5 Digital.

@Rudy_Manchego

@wiiware Remember when the Infinity War trailer showed the Avengers with the Hulk marching towards Thanos? Yeah that never happened in the film and was a shot designed for the trailer to throw people off.

Also Joel was barely in the trailers leading up to the final game, in fact Abby got more of a show off then he really did. Anyone going in expecting Joel to the lead again is dumb as it was always its clear Ellie was now the lead.

@Flaming_Kaiser That is a great gif!

@wiiware your comment sounds like something a pouting child would say 🤣

@Rudy_Manchego activists? Huh

@Taylorzombie Just a joke about the hoo ha that the detractors of said game about being about woke activism. Don't google it though... massive rabbit hole of conspiracy etc.

@WallyWest - Also, the game covers showed Ellie exclusively, so even if the trailers weren't a giveaway, the box art should be a pretty clear indicator on Joel's presence (or lack of) in the game.

Considering how uncomfortable and depressing the game was designed to be (to the point where the first game seems almost quaint by comparison), I'm honestly surprised it's racking up this many sales. I'm guessing part of it is due to more people having PS4's (see the fastest sales numbers rising with each year's big title) but even then, these numbers seem kinda improportionate for a game that's not really a crowd-pleaser by design.

@MarcG420 I just didn't like the game story and characters 🤷‍♂️

@SlimDrizzyLamar Nailed it.

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@Kefka2589 They could easily make WLF a military organisation with armored trucks, armored troops, even maybe specops and setera. And in that context Joel incident could look not pure luck and dumbness based, but inevitable. And that could explain why Ellie feels weak and vulnerable. Why she wants to destroy those people, why she wants her revenge. That could even explain to her why Joel did what he did and why that was smart and good maybe. But in current story Ellie destroys all those people like insects, she kills hundreds of them and still feels weak and vulnerable. And I don't understand why Ellie can't just do what Abby did. Why couldn't she catch some poor soul, interrogate him or her. Find out about Abby and her friends and where to catch them. But for some reason she is very unlucky and kills or finds dead everyone who can tell her something untill it's almost over. And what about Tommy? Was he unlucky too and decided to snipe some people for no reason? And suddenly Abby appears on his way, but he was unlucky to kill her for some unknown reason, even if game shows him as sniper god. For me, everything in the story doesn't make any sense and pure luck based.

@wiiware
I think is pretty obvious the next one was going to be adout revenge after playing the first one im surprised that people were surprised by it but thats just me .all i can say is well deserved brilliant game on my second play through now to platinum it so glad it sold well its well deserved for the development team top job 👏

Got the platinum earlier today and it's super easy as well. While I did enjoy a few things such as the gameplay and graphics, the story was just all over the place and too many flashbacks. There weren't a lot of characters that I particularly liked but there were two during Abby's story that I did. Overall, 6.5/10 for me.

@Medic_Alert I agree to disagree, the trailer make it the story seems about revenge, yet half the game is not about revenge but played from the others side.

I just completed it last night. Don't know but I clocked up 41.5 hours on the game save. I think it is the best game I ever played. I found the story confusing at times as i wondered what is the moral of this story and what is it trying to say. It was only on the final scene that it hit me what the game was all about and I burst into tears.

@80sGamer Me too. I was hoping they would make another game that continues where the ending left off and show what happened to those that survived.

@Rob_230 you’re certainly entitled to your opinion regarding the game, but won’t you admit that the incredible early sales numbers have more to do with The Last of Us (part 1, that is) than the sequel itself? It sold 4 million copies in its first week because people LOVED the first game and couldn’t WAIT to spend more time with Joel and Ellie. Then word got out about what the game’s really like and sales plummeted. (As the article points out, some two-thirds of the digital sales were pre-orders!) A truly “great” game would have staying power in the form of sustained sales driven by positive word of mouth.

@wiiware "I'm not interested in ND games again, ever". You are talking like there are thousands of game studios that make games at the level of the naughty dog games. They have made fantastic games for more than 10 years and you are going to stop buying their game just because of one of them? Either you are just a blind hater of the studio or you are lying and going to buy their game again.

@Medic_Alert true, it’s important to a developer to protect important plot points from being spoiled...but changing player skins and putting an entirely fabricated scene of Joel in the trailer is beyond the pale. Incredibly manipulative and disingenuous move by ND.

That being said, the lack of “Joel time” isn’t my gripe with this game. It’s just not an enjoyable experience...and I guess it isn’t meant to be, but is that really what we want from video games that lock us in for 30, 40, or even 100 hours? Players have no agency. Characters constantly commit irredeemable atrocities and act inconsistently with their previously established motivations. It’s a “revenge” story with no vengeance payoff.

I guess I just don’t need to be hit over the head with the age-old morality tale of “an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind,” or “right/wrong and good/bad depend on your point of view.” Can’t wait until Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla come out so I can get a much-needed palette cleanser...

@Rudy_Manchego oh I see

@Medic_Alert I like to be suprised, like says, the first chapter and that first chapter ending in tlou 1, plus the thing joel did in the end still gave me chill, as long as it's still in characters I'm okay with that. Tlou 2 surprise is just stupid.

@Ah-Void If the characters and story is as miserable as this game? Yeah I'm done with ND. Beside, there's still a lot of sony 1st party studio that I like, SSM, SP, Bend, PD, Insomniacs, JPS and others.

@Medic_Alert appreciate your perspective and see where you’re coming from.

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As for the “revenge story with no vengeance payoff” piece, I agree that both Ellie and Abby end up with their lives effectively destroyed (and Joel, Jesse, and many of Abby’s crew lose their lives entirely). But unlike a true satisfying “revenge tale” in the purest sense (e.g., John Wick or Kill Bill), the price to be paid in this game is for those who sought revenge, not the original sinner(s).

To be perfectly honest, I almost could’ve forgiven the narrative choices in the game if Ellie had either (a) stayed on the farm with Dina or (b) killed Abby in the end, though I would’ve greatly preferred Option A. But the fact that she throws her life away to go finish the score with Abby, only to ultimately spare her (because of a momentary vision of Joel?) and still lose her partner, adopted child, and ability to play guitar—and with it, severing that tie with Joel, who taught her to play—was just too much. The point was made; vengeance = bad. I just felt like it was piling on...

** END SPOILERS **

Doubt I’ll play Ghost of Tsushima, but glad to know people are enjoying it. I’ve gotta pick my spots, both in terms of budget and time commitment. So for now I’m just counting down the days ‘til November!

Lol thats it?! So ghost of tsushima completely wiped the floor with tlou2 since it sold that in 3 days🤣🤣 so not only did it embarrass it in gameplay and graphics but now sales lol. Come to think of it naughty dog stopped being the best at anything this gen. Almost every major AAA sony exclusive looks better than tlou2 or uc4. Horizon, death stranding, spiderman and now ghost. And all of those are open world🤣 just how much did losing 70% of their ACTUAL talent affect them? Meh eitherway that dragon cancer, edith finch and inside had narratives naughty dog can only dream of making.

Nice, loved the game! It is just an incredible gaming experience .

This game is incredible, enjoyed this so much more than the first one. Highly deserved sales, regardless of all the haters, luckily clever gamers took no notice, the results speak for there selves.

Loved the gameplay but hated the story. I am so glad I didn't pay for it, only borrowed it.

@Medic_Alert "overstaying its welcome" is a good way to put it. I don't really disagree with anything you're saying and I find that endgame theory comforting — incredibly, I hadn't seen it mentioned in any of the forums/comment sections I've been frequenting.

You seem a pretty good sort, LOL. Is Medic_Alert your PSN username? I can't remember the last time I added somebody on there (probably have to go all the way back to 2011 and CoD:MW3) but I'd like to have you in my gaming circle.

It was my first full price digital game. I had a decent enough time with it.
I've gotta say though, for all the talk & build up before release, I'm surprised how fast it's dropped from the public conciousness.