Jesus christ, I see the Franz Ferdinand reactions that this news created on Resetera and come here just to find people talking the same way around here?Most of us were expecting 100k+ physical sales, following the huge increases and success of other Sony franchises this generation. Obviously 90k is still a great result compared to the series past sales, but its not the fantastic result I was hoping for.
Seriously people, the game, including digital sales, will have close to doubled the launch numbers of the previous strongest launch in the series, and you are talking about "disappointing numbers".
What did you expect? God of War tripling God of War 3 launch numbers? Let's keep things in perspective please.
Its only compared to Uncharted 4 it looks bad really. Uncharted/ God of War had similar sales for the first three main games, but Uncharted 4's UK launch blasted this one's to bits (2:1), which I didn't expect at all. I thought this would at least manage around 2/3 of what Uncharted 4 could do. Maybe with increased digital it did, bit 2/3 is probably still the upper limit.
Uncharted 4 had very poor initial legs, I hope God of War is better.