The Last of Us Series Sales Top 37 Million Units, Multiplayer Game Gets New Concept Art - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 January 2023 / 13,018 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Naughty Dog announced The Last of Us series has sold over 37 million units worldwide as of December 2022.
"The Last of Us turns 10 this coming June, and though that decade feels like it flew by, we have treasured every moment of your support and love for this series since it debuted," said Naughty Dog co-president and co-creator of The Last of Us Neil Druckmann.
"The beautiful fan art, the incredibly detailed cosplay, the letters of support about what these games have meant to you, and everything else that has poured in over this last decade: thank you! Thank you for supporting this story our studio believes in so deeply. Our team could never have imagined over a decade ago that the kernel of what was The Last of Us would have such a profound impact on our lives, and the lives of so many of you out there.
"We are so proud to share that the entire The Last of Us franchise has sold through more than 37 million copies globally as of December 2022, and is continuing to reach new and old players every day. To know that Joel, Ellie, and our whole cast of characters have been experienced and loved by so many of you drives the entire studio forward."
Naughty Dog has also now released a new piece of concept art for The Last of Us multiplayer game, which can be viewed below:
"We’re looking ahead to The Last of Us’ 10th anniversary in June, and we’re so excited to share more with you about the future of this franchise," said Druckmann. "We’ll have some fun surprises for you along the way, but later this year we will begin to offer you some details on our ambitious The Last of Us multiplayer game. With a team led by Vinit Agarwal, Joe Pettinati, and Anthony Newman, the project is shaping up to be a fresh, new experience from our studio, but one rooted in Naughty Dog’s passion for delivering incredible stories, characters, and gameplay."
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Let's get that massive factions 2.0 already haha
Wait, dear God. Unless I’m missing something, since TLoUp2 was just announced to have hit 10mil as of “Spring 2022,” this puts TLoUp1 at around 26 or 27mil sold. Damn. And without a PC release. That would make it Sony’s highest selling first party game of all time, unless Spider-Man 2018 has surpassed it.
No wonder the first game has been re-re-released lol. That's damn impressive! You hear of open world single player games reaching those kinds of milestones, but not linear games. Only other game that comes to mind is God of War.
No doubt the TV show and PC release will help boost these numbers!
TLoU and Remastered were over 20M before TLoU2 released.
And we had the TLoU1 remake now too.
If I recall correct, the original sold 7M on PS3 before remastered released.
So maybe it's something like:
TLoU: 8M
Remastered: 13M
Part 2: 11M
Part 1: 5M
Give or take a million or so between versions.
As I view it, Part 1 being a remake should not be counted together as the original and remastered, but those two definitely should, as remastered definitely took over the sales of the still very popular original, that was just 1 year old.
That's is a nice number! And I can see much bigger numbers in the future.
Proud numbers and rightfully earned.
Deserved way more.
That PC release will definitely help! I got mine pre-ordered on Steam. I fully expect Part II to release on PC later this year too.
