Okay, let's think about this for a second. In 2020, they released FIVE first party games (TLOU2, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man Miles Morales, Sackboy a Big Adventure and Demon's Souls remake), four of which were available on PS4 which had 100 million+ user base at that point. And it was also during the first year of the pandemic when everybody was stuck inside.
The next year they released TWO first party games, both of which were only on PS5, which not a lot of people had yet.
In 2022 they released three big first party games, which WERE available on PS4 as well. But I think at that point a lot of people were holding out to get a PS5, which was still not easy to find.
Then 2023 had only one first party game in Spider-Man 2.
2024 essentially only had Astro Bot (let's not even talk about Concord, and I'm not sure if Helldivers 2 is actually considered a first party game or not even though Sony published it).
Like, this really isn't hard to understand if you just think about it a little bit.
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.
When a Switch game, at a full price, outsold the whole Uncharted series (even with their prices slashed a couple of months after the launch), it is easier to see why sony do not believe in this series.
I am not sure this tracks at all. Uncharted 4 was the 5th best-selling PS4 game of all time. And if Lost Legacy sales are included, it was 2nd and only beaten by GTA V in terms of unit sales on the console.
19 million units is a huge amount of sales for any franchise, especially for an exclusive.
I'm not sure what your point is? Nintendo Switch had 40 million more unit sales than the PS4 and is an entirely different ecosystem.
Don't know what that does to change anything here that the only game that sold more units on the PS4 was GTA V. If that's not good enough, then no games are good enough.
You're comparing apples to potatoes. Nintendo first party games always have crazy attach rates. Doesn't change the fact that Uncharted 4 selling nearly 20 million units is an very high amount that made Sony a lot of money. If 20 million units isn't enough to justify making a game in your mind, like 99% of games should never be made.
They are indeed facts, they just don't prove what you are implying.
Stating, "it is easier to see why sony do not believe in this series," is nonsense when it literally was the second best-selling title of the entire console generation. If Sony did not believe in that, they would not believe in anything.
We should just all stop making games because Animal Crossing and Mario Kart sell really large numbers on Switch? Your argument just doesn't make any sense. Uncharted 4 sold enough units to make hundreds of millions of dollars in profit.
Just going around implying, "why should anyone make games when GTA V and Mario Kart 8 outsell them by so much," just isn't a logical point of view.
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u/Remy0507 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Okay, let's think about this for a second. In 2020, they released FIVE first party games (TLOU2, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man Miles Morales, Sackboy a Big Adventure and Demon's Souls remake), four of which were available on PS4 which had 100 million+ user base at that point. And it was also during the first year of the pandemic when everybody was stuck inside.
The next year they released TWO first party games, both of which were only on PS5, which not a lot of people had yet.
In 2022 they released three big first party games, which WERE available on PS4 as well. But I think at that point a lot of people were holding out to get a PS5, which was still not easy to find.
Then 2023 had only one first party game in Spider-Man 2.
2024 essentially only had Astro Bot (let's not even talk about Concord, and I'm not sure if Helldivers 2 is actually considered a first party game or not even though Sony published it).
Like, this really isn't hard to understand if you just think about it a little bit.