Ghost of Tsushima Sales Top 8 Million Units, Movie Adaption in the Works - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 January 2022 / 2,791 Views

Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman during the Sony CES 2022 press conference announced Sony Pictures is working on a movie adaptation of the hit PlayStation game, Ghost of Tsushima.

"On the film side we will be adapting the hugely successful action-adventure game, Ghost of Tsushima, with the director of John Wick Chad Stahelski," said Rothman.

Ghost of Tsushima Sales Top 8 Million Units, Movie Adaption in the Works

He also revealed the game has now sold over eight million units since its July 2020 release on the PlayStation 4. It would later get a PlayStation 5 release in August 2021.

"That game has sold over eight million copies just since its July 2020 debut," said Rothman.

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11 Comments

LivncA_Dis3 (on 05 January 2022)

Congrats suckerpunch it's a really badass new i.p from them keep it up!

IcaroRibeiro (on 04 January 2022)

I have a physical copy and never played. I think I will upgrade for DC version before playing

Arfen (on 05 January 2022)

Nice to see a good game selling well, specially a new IP.
GOTY edition & PS5 version should have help.
8 millions is for PS4 version or both combined?

Fight-the-Streets (on 05 January 2022)

My favourite game in 31 years of gaming! Well deserved! From a neutral perspective I know that the game isn't doing anything groundbreaking or innovative but it was always my childhood dream to play a great Samurai action or action-adventure game - Ghost of Tsushima delivered 100% on that. I platinized it.

I didn't play Sekiro and Nioh 1 -2 (SoulsBorne frustration doesn't come into my house), the two Samurai Yakuza-Spin-offs (only released in Japan and the Yakuza formula is too tedious for me) and Way of the Samurai 1-4 (too low-budget and it shows in frustrating gameplay). How can I judge if I haven't even played them? Well, with so many years of gaming experience I DO KNOW how to judge if a game is something for me or not by reading/watching trusted reviewers and by watching videos of the games.

The Onimusha Series is great (Capcom when do you continue the series?) but I didn't played them either as I don't like the "Samurai-contra-Demon" topic (seen/read it 100 times in Manga/Anime/Movies/Novels). I absolutely LOVE Samurai Shodown (back then on the SNES and even Game Boy as a NEO GEO was too expensive) and I will look forward to finally buy and play the PS4 version of the Remake but they are fighting games and therefore don't fall into my defined category.

I missed out on Bushido Blade 1-2 (and the Spin-off Kengo: Master of Bushido) on the PS2 because I think they are great games (but also fighting games).