How many copies of Uncharted 4 were sold in 2016?

Sony is rolling out some impressive stats this year including 53 million PS4s sold. But one figure jumped out at me in particular, the fact that Sony says they’ve sold 8.7 million units of Uncharted 4. That’s sold, not shipped, and that’s an absolutely astonishing number of copies for a one-platform game by someone not named Nintendo.

Lifetime sales for the previous three Uncharted games are estimated at about 5 million, 6.6 million and 6.7 million respectively, so 8.7 is a significant leap, and it’s only been about seven and a half months since Uncharted 4’s release.

Uncharted 4 debuted to rave reviews, boasting a 93 on Metacritic, and hovering near the top of many Game Of The Year lists, including my own. But even still, those sales figures are out of this world for a game that’s only come out on exactly one system.

You don’t often hear that many companies willing to give out exact sales figures for individual games these days, but clearly this is a bragging point for Sony, and one that perhaps make them wish the Uncharted series hadn’t ended so conclusively, though DLC is on the way this year, and it’s entirely possible the series continues without Nathan Drake as the lead.