Ghost of Tsushima Has Sold 9.73 Million Copies on PS5 & PS4; Foxes Were Pet 75.18 Million Times

Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima will be two years old on Sunday, July 17, and the developer published some statistics to celebrate.

[-Foxtrot]

Nearly 10 million for a new IP in 2 years that's insane, and I'm sure this isn't even counting digital.

[JEECE]

I'm not sure why you'd assume the developer of the game, who is owned by the same company that runs the only digital storefront where the game is available, would not know digital sales numbers.

[-Foxtrot]

I only said it because sometimes, and I said SOMETIMES, depending on the developer / company, they would usually note that "this isn't counting digital" etc

[generic-user-name]

Likely includes digital and Director's Cut numbers too.

[FallenAngel1984]

This level of success is why Sucker Punch may never return to producing more Sly Cooper and inFamous games

[chicken_in_the_corn]

Imo that isn't a bad thing. They've had their time and Ghost is a better game.

[Elda]

Developers move on to bigger & better things,it's part of evolving. Possibly one of Sony's smaller studios may bring those games back one day.

[nevin1]

@Elda. Is that why Jak and Daxter never appeared on PS3 or PS4?

[refocusedman]

infamous was a pretty successful franchise. I'm not sure why they would abandon it.

[outsider1624]

How do you know that? They might return who knows (atleast for Infamous though).

Would love Sly Cooper get the same treatment as Rift Apart.

[DarXyde]

I'd say that's a good thing.
Sony realigning some of their studios is not at all a bad thing for me. Another studio can do something with those games. I happen to think SP found their calling with Ghost. Similar to Guerilla in a way: I never cared for Killzone and believe they really hot their stride with Horizon.

Those series have their fans, of course, but I think it's best to have some new blood take those on (or hire another team within).

[mkis007]

I would love them to bring what they learned back to infamous. SS repetitive side quests were the only dark spot on those games.

[DoubleYourDose]

Didn't Days Gone sell over 9 million copies yet was considered a failure by Sony?

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Days Gone didn’t perform as well as Ghost of Tsushima. Days Gone had early price drops and relied on discounts to sell. Ghost of Tsushima had strong sales from launch. Early full-priced sales are very important for publishers when it comes to accessing the performance of their titles.

[VersusDMC]

That and a buggy launch and bad reviews. And the main writer quitting/getting fired right after launch(john garvin has said on podcasts).

Why would you want a sequel without the sole writer anyways?

[Fishy Fingers]

Man, those price drops and discounts worked, best 1st party PSN seller in its launch year, top 10 all year and outpaced Ghosts in the same time frame.

Would be interesting to see that price drop data you got.

[VersusDMC]

@fishy fingers

Released April 26 and was 40 on June 7 for Days of play. And i got it sometime that year for 20 or 30.

Not knocking the game. Loved it. I platinumed it. But not going revise history...

[outsider1624]

Yeah..but still Days Gone reached 9 million even with the price drop..I'm sure that's considered a success now? Or is it still
considered a failure.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

@outsider1624

Sales numbers given by Day Gone’s we’re not officially supported by Sony. The sales numbers in question also appear to be inaccurate. If Sony was pleased by Day Gone’s sales company would have official announced them.

[Bobertt]

One of the reasons they didn't make a sequel was because Andrew Layden retired. He was one of the big supporters of the game at Sony and after he retired the new management didn't care for Days Gone.

[Orchard]

Yep, it had sold 8mil as of 1.5 years after launch and they (internally) considered it a failure.

But the game was good, it's still frustrating to see how they've left it along the roadside to die while simultaneously going off and acquiring live service game studios... changing times and tides, I guess.

Hopefully they let Bend go off and do something creative, something like a Syphon Filter remake/reboot.

[Knushwood Butt]

Currently playing Days Gone.
Finished my third run and now only two gold medals left in the challenges before I get 100% trophies.

Well over 300 hours into that game. Yes, I like it! May go hunting for 100% collectibles after I beat the challenges.

[Aloymetal]

Great game, great numbers for a new IP. Well deserved.

[ClayRules2012]

Well deserved indeed. An amazingly beautiful game, with some great, fast and brutal combat.

Is it ridiculous that I wanna see some hand to hand combat/footwork in there? Have Donnie Yen come in and Mocap some stuff and maybe play a character? Just a thought haha.

[ApocalypseShadow]

It's not ridiculous. Sucker Punch should do a martial arts IP similar to the style of Ghost. I've mentioned that a while back.

[Lexreborn2]

I need to finish this game

[ClayRules2012]

Alright, that’s it. Dishonor. Dishonor on your whole family. Dishonor on you. Dishonor on your cow!

Jokes aside, you really do need to finish the game, so great!

[Bathyj]

As soon as you said dishonor I was reading it in Eddie Murphy's voice.

[ClayRules2012]

@Bathyj
😂love that. Good ole Eddie Murphy as Mushu.

[SeTTriP]

It sold 10 in two years add to the fact that alot of ppl payed to get it upgraded to ps5 plus dlc.

They cashing out on this new ip.there is a bigger picture here.

[outsider1624]

They added an expansion to the old map.

[RosweeSon]

Currently on Act2* enjoying it so far playing Ps5 version, dual sense is incredible can feel your sword humming and the hooves of the horses (actually listen to your controller sounds spot on) looks great and fun to play.

*thanks to/sponsored by PS+ Premium 👌🏻😜

[ClayRules2012]

So happy to hear you’ve been enjoying the game! And on PS5, what you described adds to the experience, no doubt. Oooh, how I love it on PS5, with that DualSense Controller!

Loved it on PS4 and love it all the more on PS5.

[RosweeSon]

Ah nice yeah I was stuck in my backlog when it first launched but defo a top quality game nearly 30 hours into now 🙌🏻

[Kurisu]

I'm also on Act 2, and like yourself playing on PS5 with my PS Plus Premium sub. I haven't been this immersed in a game for a long time. 22 hours in so far, been doing all the side missions and Tales stuff. I want to try Legends but I'm not going to touch that until I've completed the story.

[RosweeSon]

Ah that’s sounds very similar to me haha I’m leaving the main story til last I’ve not done all the side missions but mainly doing them and fox dens hot springs etc but agreed I’ll be leaving legends until I’ve cleared the campaign and maybe even some of the dlc 🙌🏻🤣

[moriarty1889]

Another Sony hit selling millions. A testament to the quality of their AAA games.

[HeliosHex]

This game is delicious on ps5.

[ClayRules2012]

Every slice made into your enemy’s body, (with no mercy) is made all the more precise, impactful and delicious than the last one, as you play and experience Jin Sakai’s emotional and intense story on PS5.” - DualSense controller “You’re welcome😊”

[Orchard]

Great sales for a new IP. And they will double when it comes to PC.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

It'll sell great but double? Horizon Zero Dawn, PlayStation's best selling game on PC, sold 2.4M in a year and a half (20+ million copies across PS+PC).

The only two games that might match PS's numbers are Bloodborne and Spider-Man.

[MrNinosan]

You obviously thinks to much about PC-gamers.
No many games sell even close as much on PC than on consoles.
Especially not open world adventure games.

[Bathyj]

I don't think I can ever go bad to an assassin's Creed game when this did everything so much better.

[DarXyde]

One hard metric, one Greenberg metric.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Awesome game with awesome sales. But, if one were to read EDGE Magazine, you'd think it wasn't any good being that they gave the game a 6 because it didn't do anything new supposedly in open world games. Even Eurogamer gave it an average rating pulling out nonsense to downplay the game.

Sony is embarrassing their ridiculous reviews and high and mighty elitism.

[Knushwood Butt]

EDGE is garbage.

[sealava]

"Foxes Were Pet 75.18 Million Times"
in horizon zero dawn we hunt foxes !

[Knushwood Butt]

Have to admit I don't like killing the critters in HFW but will cease once my upgrades are completed.

[DOMination-]

And now it's on PS+ Extra, I can play it for free with many other great games thank you Sony !

[DFresh]

It's one of my top game choices of all time.
The single player is fun. (Put in180 hours total.)
The co op multiplayer experience is addicting. (Put in about 300 hours on that.)
Visuals and gameplay are shunning.
Couldn't ask for a more well rounded game.
Worth every penny.

[P_Bomb]

Legends was a brilliant idea. It’s their Factions.

[DFresh]

I hope Sucker Punch adds survival mode to the sequel.
That would be dope.

[P_Bomb]

Indeed!

[Profchaos]

Wait wait wait how is that possible how can you pet the foxes?

[X-23]

There's nothing better than seeing a studio actually evolve and develop fundamentally better games over their time in the industry, rather than being forced to make the same game countless times and just put a number or subtitle at the end of it. It's ironic though lol I say that, knowing damn well I would like for them to take all that experience they've acquired and give us another Infamous, I feel like Second Son opened up a lot of new possibilities for the games direction, Delsin Rowe was pretty cool the only thing I didn't like about him was that he was voiced by Troy Baker.