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God of War Sells Over 3.1 Million Units in 3 Days, Becomes Fastest-Selling PS4 Exclusive
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TheDuskwalker
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Danjin44
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To me single player is what makes gaming interesting, if they really do disappear then there is no real reason for me to play games anymore.
WaterAstro
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Nice.Gif
Chairman Tickles
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Will god of war stay ps4 exclusive? I'm waiting for the pc version of latest monster hunter. I'm done with 30fps in this lifetime.
TheDuskwalker
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...... Yes, until it's remastered for PS5.
thelastword
Banned
There's a 60fps mode or high framerate mode. It averages around 55fps overall, stays high in combat and 60fps even in some boss fights. it's lowest drops are traversing the huge hub area in Midgard, mostly CPU related there, as there are so many draw calls just there, but the thing is you need a PRO to play the high framerate mode.....I've heard quite a few persons bought PS4 PRO's to play the title tbh.
Anyway, good job to GOW and SSM, played it on hard and it has some of the best combat in an action game for a good minute. The story was really good, especially three parts in particular, mimir is great, had lots of laughs at his expense. This game is really high quality and really engages you on several fronts; characters/story/lore/humor and of course combat. Let's be honest, it's one of the few action games where you become familiar with most of the characters along your way. That part is well done and you get a good pull into everyone's story.... Anyway......just cleaning up for the platinum, just completed the trials on muselpheim, need to clean up some items in Niflheim to get max armor and clear out the valks and remaininig birds.
SSM might be on vacation right now, but they still plan to patch the game a bit further thereafter....Photomode, NG+ et al.......Hope this sells well in excess of 15 mil+ when all is said and done. Everybody needs to experience this game. It's that good.
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Chairman Tickles
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That's cool. Not worth $500 for one game though, which is the price of the ps4 pro in my country. I will have to wait for it in the bargain bin. I can play 30fps if i don't pay full price. Only have a ps4 vanilla.
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Panajev2001a
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This title is fine at 30 FPS, if you had a PS4 Pro I would suggest you would use the supersampling mode hehe.
Cato
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Well deserved. I just finished the main story and wow. Character building, arcs, suspense was all top notch.
Only trivial complaint is there were a couple of places where I thought the voice acting was lacking.
A few occasions of a few seconds at a time, in a 30+ hour experience. I can handle that.
This game goes to 11.
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At the end, when that thing is revealed to Kratos but not the boy, then shortly after the name-drop, it all make sense and brought tears to my eyes.
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Only trivial complaint is there were a couple of places where I thought the voice acting was lacking.
A few occasions of a few seconds at a time, in a 30+ hour experience. I can handle that.
This game goes to 11.
<spoiler>
At the end, when that thing is revealed to Kratos but not the boy, then shortly after the name-drop, it all make sense and brought tears to my eyes.
</spoiler>
Well deserved, one of the best games in this generation imho. In addition to this, there's been such a marketing pump from Sony this time I'm not surprised by the end result. They were literally *everywhere*: TV, Facebook, Instagram, sports sites and so on.
That is how you promote your main game.
That is how you promote your main game.
Chairman Tickles
Banned
I played through GOW3 on the ps3 at 30fps and enjoyed every second. But playing the 60fps remakes of GOW1/2 on ps3 simply blew my mind, no comparison. This series was made for higher fps. But the new god of war is very pretty (as was GOW3 at the time) so i can overlook the fps.
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I played the whole game on performance mode, it's just plain better imo. The quality mode felt so sluggish coming back from performance. Sometimes I felt some hiccups and slowdows in some areas but it was still ok.
DasPenguin
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Last gen Sony was pretty much tied with 360 and they were still pumping money into their own games.
gustave154
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The Last of Us Part II is going to have insane sales isn't it. Congrats to Cory and his team!
AgentP
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You mean performance more? Supersampling implies >1080P which is resolution mode. It plays much better in performance, 50-60fps.
King of FeatherCoin
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That's pretty damn amazing and wel deserved.
demigod
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Im betting that game hasn’t hit 1mil yet.
Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
Yeah, but this has been true since the NES days with Nintendo 1st party games and it will probably always be the case.so.......yeah.
mckmas8808
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What? LOL! 3.1 million in 3 days is huge.
Panajev2001a
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I like the look of resolution mode better and the frame rate is locked and with plenty of nice motion blur. Indeed the frame rate mode is smoother, but not DOOM/MGS V like locked... I may have to replay it in both modes
. Hopefully on PS5 it will run in resolution mode with 60 FPS.
Nemesis Prime
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GoldenEye98
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The first few days are significant part of overall sales though. That's how games sell.
Mista
Banned
Lol what? That's without digital sales
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
It has to count digital sales right? No way it did this number in stores only!
Geki-D
Banned
Seeing as the numbers are from Sony themselves you can be pretty sure it also includes digital because they obviously have access to all of the numbers.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Some games have legs...
.Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
Well, Horizon Zero Dawn sold 2.6 million copies in two weeks and went on to sell over 7.6M copies so by your metrics GOW should sell over 20 million!
Codes 208
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Im not following. The game has had a huge launch, theres a ton of word to mouth saying great things and i still see ads everywhere. At what point do you think sales are just going to drop? 3mil in 3 days is amazing and its only going to get higher.
I mean, what other exclusives have sold this much within even a week?
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demigod
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Thats not what he’s saying. He thinks the game is front loaded and won’t have legs.
JohnnyFootball
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I tried performance mode and they really made some graphical sacrifices for that mode and it looked just too terrible on my 4K TCL TV.
As a result I kept it in Favor Resolution and never looked back.
As a result I kept it in Favor Resolution and never looked back.
Silent Viper
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Sony is moving towards total monopoly in console market. How can someone compete if they continue to release such amazing games. It's unfair imo
Eliciel
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under these standards it is unfair that anyone would win in anything, by simply being more precise, more engaged, more innovative, delivering better results and performance. It's called winning by competing. 
sadaiyappan
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Hmm? Microsoft is dropping out of consoles?
geordiemp
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I play at 60 on my Pro in HDR... some fights take me back to NG black days.......mmmmm
thelastword
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According to Superdata, SOT had just shy of 2 million active users for it's first month. They estimate that half of those active users used the gamepass 14 day trial and have since let that subside. In essence, most of those active users for the month have since abandoned ship. As for NPD, it was later reported by Mat Piscatella that SOT sales were that of the Windows store and XBOX console combined...So play anywhere titles aggregate under the XBOX platform...
As for GOW, I think 3 days sales was a record breaker, so now we wait to see how it did after 1 week on the market and eventually 1 month.
LuvOfThaGame
Banned
Shame that they are pushing the pro hardware beyond its limits. 55 fps average is nothing to write home about. Perhaps dialing back the resolution base would be best. It seems the pro is best suited for 1440p to maintain acceptable frame rates.
it_wasn't_me
Banned
So, GOW bested Halo 3 launch numbers. Never thought that someday GOW would be bigger than Halo.
Astounding numbers, that's for sure
Astounding numbers, that's for sure
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Panajev2001a
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The ~60 FPS mode is a 1080p mode, the 4K/supersampled 1080p mode rubs at the intended 30 FPS framerate pretty much locked 100% of the time (see DF review). This is actually how you properly design a locked frame rate game: you give it a decent amount of headroom to ensure that frame rate does not drop in whatever crazy scenarios the users may find himself or herself in... some of that headroom can be converted in a 55-60 FPS unlocked frame rate scenario or in higher resolution rendering. Likely the game is hitting more CPU side bottlenecks than graphics ones in the high frame rate mode and the game was never built to target locked 60 FPS.