AranhaHunter
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With all this talk about Naughty Dog and some debates I had the past couple of days over Jak 4 I was wondering about sales for ND's games, so I did some research and first I see this, from the last of us PR
I thought it was weird that they mentioned sales of the Crash and Uncharted franchise, but not Jak.
Then I go to SCEWWS website and see this:
This suggests to me that Crash sold 22 million between the 4 games they made, Uncharted sold 13 million on the 3 games they made for a total of 35 million between those two franchises. That means that 4 Jak games sold ~5 million copies (1.2 million per game). Unless I'm missing something here, then Jak franchise has significantly worse than I thought it did. Not a complete bomba, but the average in sales is significantly worse than the other two franchises.
The Last of Us is developed by some of the industry most talented game designers including Bruce Straley, game director, and Neil Druckmann, creative director. Naughty Dog advanced to the forefront of the videogame industry in 1996 with the successful introduction of Crash Bandicoot on the original PlayStation. The developer extended the franchise with Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped and Crash Team Racing, selling 22 million copies worldwide and led to Naughty Dog being the most successful video game developer in the United States for that console generation. The team then created the Jak and Daxter franchise including Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy®, Jak II, Jak 3 and Jak X: Combat Racing. All four of titles are PlayStation®2 Greatest Hits. In 2007 the team released UNCHARTED: Drakes Fortune® and followed with UNCHARTED2: Among Thieves and the recent November launch of UNCHARTED 3: Drakes Deception. Having currently sold over 13 million units worldwide, the UNCHARTED franchise represents some of the most impressive graphics, sound and processing capabilities found on PS3.
I thought it was weird that they mentioned sales of the Crash and Uncharted franchise, but not Jak.
Then I go to SCEWWS website and see this:
Naughty Dog has built a solid reputation for consistently producing award winning best-sellers across a number of genres over the past 15 years. Its first major success came with the "Crash Bandicoot" franchise on the original PlayStation®in the mid 1990s. After becoming part of SCE in 2001, Naughty Dog created its next big-hitting game with "Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy", which served as the foundation for a PlayStation®2 franchise based on the adventures of these two unlikely heroes. In late 2007, Naughty Dog released its debut PLAYSTATION®3 title, "UNCHARTED: Drake's Fortune®", kicking off a franchise whose highly-anticipated second title, "UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves", was released in the Fall of 2009. To date, Naughty Dog has sold over 40 million units, totalling over USD $1 billion in sales.
This suggests to me that Crash sold 22 million between the 4 games they made, Uncharted sold 13 million on the 3 games they made for a total of 35 million between those two franchises. That means that 4 Jak games sold ~5 million copies (1.2 million per game). Unless I'm missing something here, then Jak franchise has significantly worse than I thought it did. Not a complete bomba, but the average in sales is significantly worse than the other two franchises.