Uncharted 3 Sells More Than 1m Copies in First Week
by Seb Parker, posted on 07 November 2011 / 21,269 Views
Naughty Dog's hotly anticipated new title, Uncharted 3, has broken records for the franchise, selling more than 1.1 million copies in its first week on sale - 30% higher than Uncharted 2's debut. This is the 4th biggest exclusive launch for a PlayStation 3 game, behind Gran Turismo 5, Metal Gear Solid 4 and God of War 3, further cementing its place as one of Sony's key exclusives. It's also the 12th biggest launch overall for the PS3.
Looking forward it's hard to estimate lifetime sales without knowledge on when/if it will be bundled, however 4-5 million is most likely.
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"without knowledge on when/if it will be bundled" What? The game already have 320gb bundles
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Lol, maybe that explains why they think the PS3 only got a 10K boost (which would be normal without an exclusive release because of the holidays), they didn't know it was bundled.
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If it took bundles to sell this many copies, then Uncharted 3 is actually a MAJOR flop.
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Maybe I'm old fashioned. I don't know. Where I live, Uncharted 3 released on a Tuesday. It's still early Monday! I was raised to believe that a week was a seven day period. How do we get these estimates so early?
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Good question. I figure that vgchartz uses their sales week, not a week from the release of the game to figure the sales. This is a pretty common way of looking at sales figures.
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You've been here long enough d21! You know week one here classes as the week ending on the saturday, which is why our data sometimes differs to official sources as they're counting 7 full days or what have you.
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christ almighty, I have never seen so much below comments, people must really love hating on Uncharted
Comments are hilarious. Since when was 1.1 million in one week bad? This game has a good chance of making 5 to 6 million which is amazing and you all are complaining? How man exclusives make it to 5 million?
Wow this comment section shows how much of a failure the like/dislike feature really is.
I think we just broke the record for the amount of comments below voting threshold.
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*Sigh*
Joke thread with all the sources being Gamrconnect posts -_-
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I'm surprised at the amount of people who took the bait. Succesful thread indeed.
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It's ok, morenoingrato, I got the point of the thread. And I know that's all that matters to you. :-D
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And it deserves to sell every single copy, roll on Uuncharted 4.
Who made the ''Uncharted 3 is a major failure. We need to talk about it'' thread again? Damn fool.
SO many insecure fanboys bringing irrelevant games(halo,gears) in this article.....Im guessing its cause their "king of sales" game doesn't even get nominated in GOTY awards.
I've heard many positive comments about it, and now I'm feeling excited.
1.1 million is great. This is a better start than Uncharted 2 which has sold nearly 5 million.
5-6 million I'd say. Slightly lower than I predicted originally but great nonetheless!
Why is the man crying on the picture : is he disappointed by its sales ?
It deserves so much more :( mw3 will sell around 12mil first week but u3 only sells 1mil.. Fucked up games industry
Right? I blame the U.S. why are we so retarded :( I blame 5up3r1337snip3rz69 and m4d5killZ420
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Haha, I viewed that major flop thread, pretty silly really.
This site and it's fanboyism is just pathetic... Anyway great opening for a great game!
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Brilliant to see a great game getting great sales! If it were up to me then it would have COD level first week sales! Mad people missing this gem!
The early stories were not wrong, they were only for NA numbers... not worldwide. This is a WW total. So given the numbers we already have for NA, it sold about the same amount in EA and JPN combined. You can say the game may deserve better numbers, but it is still a 30% rise on a game that already sold well. It will be fine
I think some of us were hoping that it would be more than just fine. Huge sales would encourage more developers to make high quality games in this genre.
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great game deserves more sales but always wondered why release this game between battlefield 3 and mw3
first week is pretty good. i remember Uncharted 2 only sold 870k first week worldwide. if people expect this to sell like CoD then you're in a dreaming world. CoD have too many fans and it was multiplatforms, Uncharted only exclusive to PS3.
first week is pretty good. i remember Uncharted 2 only sold 870k first week worldwide. if people expect this to sell like CoD then you're in a dreaming world. CoD have too many fans and it was multiplatforms, Uncharted only exclusive to PS3.
Wish there were more games like this on the market. I love 3rd person action adventure games. That's why I'm sad that Enslaved didn't do better (Not a great game, but a good start.) Oh well, I guess Assassin's Creed: Rev, Zelda and Darksiders 2 will have to fill the urge in the upcoming year.
It sold just fine considering the launch window. selling 1.1 million between BF3 and MW3/Skyrim launches is fine. Of course we can debate if it was wise to launch it against these juggernauts.....
I am not really sure why a game selling ~1 million deserves an article of praise. These are not exactly exciting numbers - in fact, this is only the 4th best release of the last month; Batman doing 2 million, Fifa 12 doing 3 million, and Battlefield 3 doing over 4 million.
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Well, I can answer the bundle part. I bought the Uncharted 3 PS3 bundle. Heck it's the reason I finally got a PS3. Didn't get it before since my old roommate had one, so I played the exclusives on his.
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I am glad earlier stories were wrong about it selling around 500,000 copies. Or whatever the story was wrong. I am not quoting anything. Just happy is sold over a million week 1!
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Very respectable opening, but you think it would have did better considering how well U2 did.
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It did 30% bigger opening than 2 if it keeps that ltd it will close in on 7mill
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Quite frankly, I just find it odd that it only saw about 250K growth in sales. Why weren't more people excited about the successor? Perhaps U2 sales are actually bloated with bundles?
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I really must ask. If a beautiful, engaging, high-quality game like Uncharted 3 sells less first week WW than what Skyrim for the X360 has on preorder in the Americas alone, what manner of exclusives do PS3 owners fancy?
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Lets look at the biggest Exclusive PS3 openings 1. Gran Turismo 5 2.3M 2. Metal Gear Solid 4 - 1.7M 3. God of War III 1.2M 4. Uncharted 3 1.1M 5. Uncharted 2 This is Exclusive ONLY. There are tons of Multiplats that have sold more(PS3 only). All the COD games, FFXIII, RE5, BF3, MAdden, FIFA etc.. Hell Final Fantasy XIII sold more on PS3 with EU/US sales alone(ignoring Japan) that's embarassing.
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God of War III did closer to 1.3m. Not many Microsoft/Sony exclusives pass 1 million in their first week so Uncharted fans shouldn't be disappointed.
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Your comparing FF a series that has been around for DECADES to an Ip that came out this gen??? Ok
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meh... PS3 Exclusives Not Sell like the big boys like BF3 or HALO.. HALO games sell 3x more than all exclusives of PS3 in one day. Anyway,Uncharted is a relatively new IP and it was never going to do Halo-like numbers.
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Lord_Yggdrassil is right. Unfortunately though UC3 will sell a ton of units, FPS' are what's in now, kind of like how the GTA games were what was in lasts gen.
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UC 3 is a boring game with no real gameplay everything is scripted and the sales are not that good as many expected, the preorders of gears of war only for the US market was higher than the uncharted 3 sales worldwide for the whole first week. Gears of War 3 is also a way better game than Uncharted3.
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who thinks about matching? maybe even surpassing it is what we're talking abt....
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I waited 5 years and finally got it for this game. Though the Gears games are fun, I much prefer a 3rd person action adventure to a 3rd person shooter. But then again I prefer a 3rd person shooter to an FPS. Not sure why.
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