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God of War Ragnarök Tops 15 Million Units Sold

God of War Ragnarök Tops 15 Million Units Sold - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 December 2023 / 19,289 Views

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced God of War Ragnarök has sold over 15 million units worldwide across the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.

The figure is up from 11 million units sold in February 2023 and 5.1 million units in its launch week in November 2022. The launch weeks figure at the time set a record for the fastest-selling first-party launch in PlayStation history and set a God of War franchise record.

The free Valhalla DLC for God of War Ragnarök will release on December 12.

God of War Ragnarök released for the PS5 and PS4 on November 9, 2022.


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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33 Comments
Manlytears (on 10 December 2023)

Amazing numbers. Congrats to Sony Santa Monica.

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2zosteven (on 10 December 2023)

can sale quite a bit more as the PS5 sales continue to sale at big numbers

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Dallinor (on 10 December 2023)

Such a huge jump from the old games. Between this and the 2018 version, should reach over 50 million copies sold.

Hoping the next game continues to evolve the gameplay, with even more exploration and freedom.

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DekutheEvilClown (on 10 December 2023)

Will this be the first Playstation Studios 30m seller?

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DonFerrari DekutheEvilClown (on 10 December 2023)

Would say SM2 also have a chance, but considering the PS4 version is a plus it will be harder for SM2 to get there.

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mjk45 DonFerrari (on 10 December 2023)

Spiderman is at 33 million but that includes the Morales spinoff so if even if you go with 5 million for the spinoff that leaves Spiderman at 28 million but I can't see it getting that extra 2 million

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DonFerrari mjk45 (on 10 December 2023)

Yep, and SM2 is even harder to see crossing this line.

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DekutheEvilClown mjk45 (on 11 December 2023)

Miles Morales had sold 6.5M by July 2021, and it finished that year as the 6th best selling game on the NPD and was still consistently making the top 20 in 2022, and still makes the PSN top 20 regularly in 2023.

So Miles Morales almost certainly is way over 10m.

The 33m number does not include either PC release though so it would be much higher now.

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G2ThaUNiT (on 10 December 2023)

Looking forward to adding on top of the sales when it comes to PC!

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VersusEvil G2ThaUNiT (on 10 December 2023)

Not a peep from you before about this game, i wonder why?

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trunkswd G2ThaUNiT (on 10 December 2023)

I am guessing it will come to PC in November 2024, which is 2 years after the PS5/PS4 release. At least I hope so. I am a PC gamer (minus Nintendo), so I wait for Sony to release their games on PC. God of War (2018) is a top 10 favorite games of all time for me.

I wouldn't be surprised of God of War Ragnarok is over 20 million sold before the PC release.

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DonFerrari trunkswd (on 10 December 2023)

I thought you had a Series as well.

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trunkswd DonFerrari (on 10 December 2023)

I bought a Series S at launch so I could take it with me to visit my gf at the time as it is far easier to travel with than a PS5 or Series X. And my PC was starting to show its age in 2020, which I've since upgraded. I play all AAA games on the PC at this point as it is more powerful than a PS5 and Series X. I guess I should have said "mainly a PC gamer" rather than "PC gamer." My Series S is really only used to play indie games on Game Pass at this point or if I travel.

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DonFerrari trunkswd (on 10 December 2023)

Makes sense although with a PC and Switch I dunno if I would use the S for Indies unless it is on GP only for console. Sony current strategy for big releases going PC after 2+ years made you save some on HW =]

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trunkswd DonFerrari (on 10 December 2023)

I agree about the indies. I've played a lot of them thanks to Game Pass. They aren't THE reason I subscribe, but I've discovered a lot of great indie games thanks to the service.

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twintail (on 10 December 2023)

Great sales! The new DLC looks fun

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LivncA_Dis3 (on 11 December 2023)

Amazing numbers and well deserved

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Iveyboi (on 10 December 2023)

Nice! Game will have legs as well

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BraLoD (on 10 December 2023)

God of War was always massive around here because of the ease to pirate PS2 games, its sales numbers until the PS3 gen were always a bit puzzling to me based on how just about everyone here knew or played it.
I'm happy to see it doing so well ever since the PS4.

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DonFerrari BraLoD (on 10 December 2023)

Yes, it was always very famous and welcome but just with GoW and R it exploded in sales.

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BraLoD DonFerrari (on 11 December 2023)

God of War is such a consistently great franchise, 1 and specially 2 are some of the best games on PS2, 3 the same for PS3, Ascencion is a bit weaker but still really good game, 4 (yes, I'll keep numbering them) the same for the PS4 and 5 as well for PS4 and PS5.
By now it's the most iconic franchise Playstation has. It's truly amazing how Santa Monica can keep the quality so ridiculously high since the PS2 days.

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DonFerrari BraLoD (on 11 December 2023)

I liked Ascension quite a lot even if it is considerably weaker than the others, even the PSP entries were quite pleasant (played the collection on console).

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hellobion2 (on 10 December 2023)

um duh

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tslog (on 10 December 2023)

Doesn’t deserve that much & a worse game than 2018.
Atreus sections are easily the worst parts of the game - way too much walking sim, walk & talk boredom playing as Atreus ….made worse by Atreus having easily worse combat than Kratos. I was dreading Playing as Atreus every time. Atreus always fights the easiest enemies…and why is that ? It’s because he has the weaker and worst combat. Ironwood section was especially egregious as the worst section of the game. I nearly quit right there.

And the whole Pace of the game generally is slowed down massively with too much walking & talking, excessive story, and huge amounts of excessive useless traversal KILLING all gameplay momentum.

As Kratos you also don’t get crucial runic powers till many hours into the game which is crazy. You fight worse base enemies than the Draugr from 2018 which is baffling…..and Kratos does hours of boring climbing at a painfully slow climbing speed.

And your FORCED to watch all cutscenes which wasted hours of my time.

Ragnarok improved enemy variety, and has better general dialogue, but is comfortably a worse game than 2018.

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rapsuperstar31 tslog (on 10 December 2023)

Why would you want to skip the cutscenes on a first play through? Maybe you watching tiktok while ignoring the story is a reason you couldn't get into the game. At the end of the day, not every game is going to satisfy everyone. If you truly didn't like it (and aren't just trolling) no biggie hopefully you enjoy the next game you play.

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2zosteven rapsuperstar31 (on 10 December 2023)

no kidding.

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DonFerrari rapsuperstar31 (on 10 December 2023)

My son until he was about 7y used to skip all cutscenes and not read the game instructions gave in convos/other and then got stuck all the time. Now he started to be a little more patient and see the scenes and read the texts.

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2zosteven DonFerrari (on 10 December 2023)

i never thought that he could be 7

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RedKingXIII tslog (on 10 December 2023)

are you really complaining about too much talking and excessive story in this story driven game? really?

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DonFerrari RedKingXIII (on 10 December 2023)

I dunno why but a lot of people complain about they talking a lot while you are on traversal, seems like they prefer mute chars.

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RedKingXIII DonFerrari (on 10 December 2023)

I get this, but I mean... it still is a cinematic story driven game. I would expect a lot of talking... and story.

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DonFerrari RedKingXIII (on 11 December 2023)

Me too, and their banter and some jokes were very good.
The criticism I'll agree is that the ragnarok itself wasn't as grand as major battles from previous titles.

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Dante9 tslog (on 12 December 2023)

If you don't care for the story-centric approach and intricate character interactions and development, and would rather just press buttons and smash shit for no particular reason, then Sony exclusives are not for you. There's plenty of other games out there.

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