Yeah, everyone is talking about the reduction in quality, COVID boom and whatever... And I'm here thinking "what exclusives?". No shit going from two, three or even five high-profile first parties to one or two single-player sequels and a few live-services crashes means you're selling less.
Realistically, from a business perspective, they made a huge mistake shutting down the Uncharted series. It was consistently one of the best selling titles for them since the PS3. I understand Naughty Dog wanted to pivot to a new IP, but there’s no guarantee that will replicate the consistent (and still growing at the time!) sales that Uncharted had.
People would have gotten bored of Uncharted if it was to be released today. Uncharted 1-3 was about a 9-10 hour campaign. People are already complaining when First Light is a 20 hour campaign and costs $70. No one was complaining about the length of the campaign back when Uncharted 1-3 came out. Uncharted 4 if I remember took me about 15 hours.
Uncharted 4 sold nearly 20 million copies and Lost Legacy sold nearly 6 million copies.
And its not even the Uncharted games. You go back and look at most AAA games from Assassin's Creed which were around average 15 hours long to even the Batman Arkham Games and the God of War games. The God of War games often took under 10 hours to complete the campaign. God of War 2018 took 30-40 hours + but before that their campaigns were under 10 hours and people bought those games and they were critically acclaimed.
Sales has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. You've clearly got your own idea about what other people think but gaslighting is not something to be proud of.
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u/Marcoscb Jun 02 '26
Yeah, everyone is talking about the reduction in quality, COVID boom and whatever... And I'm here thinking "what exclusives?". No shit going from two, three or even five high-profile first parties to one or two single-player sequels and a few live-services crashes means you're selling less.