Uncharted Franchise Tops 41.7 Million Units Sold - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 December 2017 / 12,443 Views
The Uncharted franchise has sold more than 41.7 million units worldwide, revealed Sony during the 10th anniversary panel for the series.
The Uncharted games have sold over 36 million units at retail, according to VGChartz. That would mean around 4.1 million of the sales were digital.
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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10 million alone from Uncharted 4. Crazy
Wow. Super impressive.
Awesome news. Much love for all of the Uncharted games.
The bundle-excuse is nothing more than an excuse. Even if a lot of it's sales are from bundles, then people still picked the Uncharted bundle because apparently they wanted to play Uncharted instead of something else. It's never the only bundle out there. 41m sales from just 4 games (mostly, the Vita game obviously has only had a small hand in the total) is nothing short of excellent.
I owned 3 of the Uncharted games. I had no interest in buying 3 or 4, but they came with the system. With 3, I believe it was either that or a Lego game. With 4, I think that was my only option.
It seems weird that I should have to say this, but having a game being offered essentially for free, even if there are 2-3 other free game options available, is going to provide a significant boost to sales. If you look at the charts of Uncharted games and compare them to games with similar FW sales, you can pretty clearly see the effect of bundling.
It's not an excuse, it's an explanation. Bundles definitely helped sales.
During Xmas time, there were 3 PS4 bundles that included 3 big games. All of those bundles included UC4. So there wasnt much choice for many. The PS4 is carrying alot of games to mile stones. Before those bundles UC4 was sitting on 4m. All of a sudden that figure doubled during Xmas and PS4 consoles doubled aswell. Convenient isnt it.
The source is this website. Check the game comparison tool, and put in Uncharted 4. There is a huge spike at holiday 16. It goes from the 4 million range (closer to 5 million) to around 8 million.
Of course, holidays usually lead to a boost of sales for major releases. But, when you compare to GTA V, a game that had a very similar baseline (and was not to my knowledge bundled in 2016), the holiday boost is nearly double what GTA V got. And after the holiday period, the baseline for Uncharted 4 quickly dropped below the baseline for GTA V. The bundles clearly had a large impact on sales.
If our goal is to just determine which number is bigger, than sure. A sale is a sale. If we want to actually that data to draw any reasonable conclusions (such as predicting future sales trends, determining the relative success or importance of various franchises etc) then details like a game being packed in with a system is very significant.
This is obviously Fake News, EA said it themselves that no one likes Single player games.
Good for sony
Quite cool. I know they had that spinoff recently, but is there any word on who will helm future installments without Nathan Drake?
Excellent! It's amazing to see how far the Uncharted series has gotten. And I'm not mentioning the two GOTYs the franchise has.
This just goes to show that it's not just about the franchise, but the developers. ND went from Crash to Jak & Daxter to now Uncharted. This is what happens when you invest in a studio and give it creative freedom.
Awesome news about a franchise selling really good...looks at comments... is that supposed to be impressive...well bundles.
Hey, 5 games with sales like this??? And even more impressive, it is a single player story-driven game and those don't sell like something more gamey and less story driven. GOOD STUFF!!!
Video games. It brings out the worst in ppl.
On topic: Very good sales. I doubt uncharted 4 is truly the last we’ll see of Nathan with sales like that.
That is absolutely not true. You are thinking of the Playstation Blog(which has a "PSX" banner because it's PSX month) which stated that Uncharted 1-3 sold 21 million copies ... and that same blog was the blog where they announced Uncharted The Nathan Drake Collection. That blog came out June 4th of 2015, before The Nathan Drake Collection or Uncharted 4 or Uncharted THe Lost Legacy.
This stat, as far as we know, includes Uncharted 1,2,3, Golden Abyss, 4, and Lost Legacy. I don't know if it includes "Race for fortune", doubt it.
*And Nathan Drake
