Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Tops 37 Million Players - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 May 2021 / 10,852 Views
The PlayStation 4 action-adventure game, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, released five years ago on May 10, 2016. Developer Naughty Dog in a five-year retrospective announced over 37 million people have downloaded and played the game.
"We’ve been honored by the reception Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End has received from you, the community, fans, and players," said Naughty Dog. "As of 2021, over 37 million individual players have downloaded and experienced Nathan Drake’s ultimate adventure."
The number of players does not equal the number of copies sold as it has been given away to PlayStation Plus subscribers. The game has sold 16.25 million units worldwide as of May 2019.
Here is an overview of the game:
Several years after his last adventure, retired fortune hunter, Nathan Drake, is forced back into the world of thieves. With the stakes much more personal, Drake embarks on a globe-trotting journey in pursuit of a historical conspiracy behind a fabled pirate treasure. His greatest adventure will test his physical limits, his resolve, and ultimately what he’s willing to sacrifice to save the ones he loves.
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I'm sure the game sold great but it was also bundled heavily, given as a PS Plus Game, offered on PlayStation Now for a while, and part of the PS Plus Collection. The game is aces either way so I am happy so many played it.
Congrats nawty dawg!
I'll have to play this on the ps5 one day in 60fps. I hope they remake the first game, was my favourite story wise.
So did it break 20m sales yet? its gotta be close right?
I kind of doubt it. If Sony hasn't updated the numbers in that long, it must not have hit 20 million. What I mean is they probably would have publicized an accomplishment like that.
@SvenTheTurkey they haven't updated any of their titles but internal documents suggest GOW is over 20m and a CV disclosed Spiderman selling 20m which is more or less a given. It's looking likely that they will not give any official updates based on software passing the 20m milestone
Oh ok. I didn't realize Sony was so private about the sales data. Why did they stop disclosing it?
Honestly not sure
That is a pretty impressive number. And yes it most likely crossed 20M sold somewhere along the way. A great game.
Playing through the games the first time when they came out I believe my favorites would have been 2, 1, 3, 4. But when I replayed them I realized 1 didn't age nearly as well as I had remembered it. I would say my favorites replaying them would be 2, 4, 3, 1 and I would probably slot Lost Legacy just slightly below 3 and above 1.
I completely agree with everything you wrote. I didn't enjoy 4 as much as I enjoyed the other games, but after recently replaying them all again, I realised 1 hasn't aged well and I like 4 slightly more than 3. Uncharted 2 is still one of my all time favourite games.
2016 Naughty Dog greatness. Damn I miss it. Glad Uncharted 4 is still doing its thing ;')
With Game Pass, game sales will get complicated in the future, a better metric will just be revenue, the more revenue, the more popular any game is
It was an ok game but the series was over for me after #3. Only played 4 since it was supposed to be the last one for Nathan.
