Days Gone Sales Numbers Might Be Lower Than 8 Million

A new wrinkle to the story.

[SullysCigar]

Not that it makes much difference, but moments ago I read a quote from the director confirming well over 9 million in sales.

Certainly with steam sales, even allowing for the variance stated in this article, it's definitely north of 8 million today.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Sales numbers where inferred from trophies and user accounts (this ignores game sharing and sharing of discs). The technique used also ignores players who played Days Gone when it was given away to PS5 owners and offered via PlayStation Plus. Conversely, Ghost of Tsushima’s sales numbers where announced by an official PlayStation twitter account. Days Gone doesn’t have official numbers, even if the former game director is considered a reliable source. He is no longer working at Sony.

[ssmilloy36]

4 years later why does this matter

[Elda]

Actually it's almost 3 years.

[KillBill]

Because fans of Days Gone have constantly been looking for a second game to be developed. And with Sony prior game sales factor into that decision.

[Traecy]

It was released April 26,2019 so basically it's been almost 3 years.

[MadLad]

The director of the game literally went out of his way to insult gamers for not supporting the title. Sony declined a sequel. While Sony almost always happily announces sales of their breakout successes, we have these articles pointing out that they chose not to and, again, chose not to greenlight a sequel. Was one of the fastest exclusives to come to PS Now. Was very fast to be announced for PC, and not tied into a series drumming up hype for a sequel (GoW, HZD).

None of that tells me Sony was all that ecstatic about the performance of the game.

So say you are right and that, somehow, that 8 million mark holds to in the face of used sales, friends borrowing it, and the game being offered to players via a subscription, even that number just shows how many people chose to support the product, just for Sony to choose not to support a sequel. So who really wins either way?

[rippermcrip]

The guy's methods are very flawed.his logic was that when Sony officially said 5 million sales... Some third party site was saying 5.8 based ON TROPHY data. So his logic was that site was fairly close.

So he later saw this site said like 9+ million, so he assumed the 8 million sales.

What he can completely doesn't account for is that the game eventually became part of PS Plus. So everyone who played it on there... would have inflated the number of users. So he can no longer use that site because the game was free.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Days Gone potentially having similar sales figures to Ghost of Tsushima doesn’t indicate it was as financially successful as the latter. Full priced sales are an important metric. Even if Days Gone sold just as much units of as Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima. Sucker Punch’s title likely generated more revenue due to it generally better reception, reception that would promote greater full priced sales.

[Orchard]

People are over indexing on game sales really, seems like there’s Days Gone sales news everywhere & everyday at this point with conflicting information.

It was a good game that unfortunately got kinda swept aside by some lame reviews and Sony feeling it didn’t live up to the other exclusives.

Still hope we get a sequel one day.

[Knightofelemia]

I'd still take a sequel I thought sales from PC would help show Sony that the ip is still worth it.

[REDGUM]

Such an underrated game. I had alot of fun with this game. Sure, some bugs along the way but I had very little to criticise about this game.

[BrettAwesome]

Days Gone is one of my favourite games. I had such a great time with it ❤

[Sephiroushin]

Depends when you played it but at launch it was not "some bugs along the way" it had breaking bugs some that could stop you from progressing... I remember on a race I had invisible crash wall bug 5 times in around got pissed and quit, a year later I came back and was fun but I paid full price and when game was fun was already 20$ ...

The director talk a lot but it was their fault, the game released buggy so people attacked it from every side (some of it deserved some irrelevant); and only game allowed to release buggy from media are bathesda games!

[GamingSinceForever]

It doesn’t matter because Sony isn’t interested in making any sequel or spinoff.

[CanadianTurtle]

Sony has a brutal habit of self-destructing its own IPs. If the sales records aren't insanely high, they will cancel the series as a whole. They did this with the Resistance series. Warhawk series is another one. There are many more examples. Absolutely no mercy :(

[SeTTriP]

Straight of the cliffs of Mount Taygetus.
Spartans discard the weak.

[TheColbertinator]

Doesn't matter. Sony won't bring back the franchise as they abandon most of them.

[brewin]

How does a new IP sell that much and not get a sequel? I was really looking forward to seeing them expand on the ideas here Probably the best open world Zombie game I've played, the atmosphere was crazy intense!

[senorfartcushion]

Oh no, is that all? Anything over a million is a major hit. Enough for a sequel.

It makes less sense content-wise due to The Last of Us being a zombie-based crafting game. I know they’re hardly nothing alike really, but this is enough for the weird exec to cancel DG2.

[jznrpg]

If a game costs 50-75 million to make but sells 1 million at full price it’s not hit , they don’t make $ I think the bugs and launch issues were what bothered Sony the most with Days Gone and the poor reception by lame journos but they can always revisit it at any time . It was a great game after the issues were fixed but I avoided it for the first few months to wait for the fixes .

[senorfartcushion]

Literally reading now in the news that Jurassic World 2 has sold a million copies. Every site has called it a sales “milestone.” Don’t know what to tell you. They still value the sales as much as they did. I think the issue here is that you think that the people who praise this stuff actually know/care about the maths. They don’t. Most journalists will do anything for clicks and most investors and execs are brainless fools who operate using old world methods regardless

[ZeekQuattro]

The game had a lot of middling reviews unlike GOW ,Ghosts, or Marvels Spider-Man for instance. Even if it sold well I feel like that why Sony hasn't okayed a sequel in the long run. They want their 1st party games to gets 9s and 10s. They can't be hyped about a game with average to low scores.. I would blame it on the games turbulent development cycle but GOW didn't exactly go without a hitch either but it got glowing reviews and sold well so Sony was happy.

[Jericho1337]

If it sold so well then why did the director come out a few months back begging people to buy the game?

[KillBill]

5 Million sales to a 5.8 Million telemetry data indicates a 14% variance. I am a big data guy and can often extrapolate information like this if given enough data. But portions that are hard to determine are how much the telemetry data changes later in the cycle of a game. Does percentage variance increase due resales later in the cycle? Do more people get a chance to play a game without purchase? Without full data you are really needing to source some how the propensity of gamers and their purchase/play/share habits with their games.

I for one have a family of 5 that all game to some point and I have a back-up account I use. So the idea of using such data is ever a challenge in my eyes.

Edit: note I see that he suggests of the 8 million that it could be lesser 7.7m or greater 8.2m... which is odd seeing it is greatly off from his initial point of telemetry showing 14% variance. 6.9m would be the expected variance if we go by his first telemetry example given.

[Profchaos]

Does it matter Sony won't greenlight a sequel I don't think it's related to sales numbers but a perception issue with the IP and Sonys belief that anything under a 9 isn't good enough. They also won't sell the IP cdpr tried to buy it already so it seems that it's going to be like resistance just frozen in time

[InUrFoxHole]

The launch game on base ps4 had cut scene issues and ruined the game for me but this game deserved a sequel.

[Flawlessmic]

Who cares honestly, game was average at best.

Bend need to move and step there game up because they cant afford another flop, and when i say flop i mean in comparison to sonys other exclusives.

[darkrider]

Great game, great sales. Was a hit. For a new ip all studios dream of reaching this kind of sales. Others don't even now what it means to sell 8 millions copies of game for years... But this game always got bad press. From the generic excuse to the done many times. While other games got a free pass doing the same over and over. Nothing new, but it's fun... Back to the roots... Runs at 60 frames. I still don't know how they were able to make those hordes and got good graphics on the ps4... Really like to ride the bike and after all upgrades it was even cool. What is strange is that still today some keep attacking this game...

[got_dam]

I enjoyed the game a lot. Too bad it didn't hit the greater mass market the way it hit me.

[leemo19]

This games needs a sequel, just for the secret ending with O'Brian. Be really stupid to end to a game on a cliff hanger like that. Sure it had problems, but its not like it was Cyberpunk problems, plus some of the problems were address later and fixed.

[ChickenOfTheCaveMan]

Sales don't really matter when the game got trashed hard by critics and users. I really enjoyed it but you won't see a sequel get greenlit fast or at all with these kind of reviews. Best case scenario, their upcoming game is a hit, more and more people ask for a Days Gone sequel and with the new experience Bend gets to do it.

[Gaming4Life1981]

Who cares it's a good game

[ITPython]

What are the sales of PSVR? Maybe around 6 million? Yet despite such a low number for over 100 million PS4's sold, Sony is developing and releasing PSVR2. Whether Days Gone sold 9 million copies or not, it did objectively well for a new IP. By all means it should have gotten a sequel. But it seems internal politics, media bias and bad blood between Sony and Bend Studio got Days Gone tossed in the scrap pile. Which is total BS since the game was really well made and is easily one of the best games of the last generation.

Also not sure why so many are claiming it was buggy and broken at launch. I played it day one and platinumed it on my PS4 Pro and don't remember having any issues (small or large) whatsoever. Perhaps the OG PS4 had issues, but it ran and looked amazing on the Pro. Graphically it is still one of the best looking games out there. Which is quite impressive given it is open world.

Sadly, Days Gone had a bullseye on it from the get go by the media and gaming "journalists". And it is painful to see so much blind hatred by fellow gamers for such a good game. PlayStation games always get smeared and targeted by the media. Most of the time it is unsuccessful since the games are so well known and popular, but Days Gone didn't stand a chance since it was a new IP by a smaller studio.