Uncharted series sells 13 million copies

By Fred Dutton Published 5 December, 2011

Uncharted 3 week one sales were double UC2.

Naughty Dog's Uncharted series has sold in excess of 13 million copies worldwide, publisher Sony has revealed.

Sony marketing man Asad Quizilbash offered the figure during an interview with IndustryGamers.

He added that the latest in the series, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, sold twice as many copies in its first week as Uncharted 2 did, "far exceeding our expectations". However, he didn't offer precise sales figures, reiterating only that it shipped 3.8 million copies to retailers on day one.

Next up for Drake and co. is Vita launch title Uncharted: Golden Abyss, due out on 22nd February.

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Comments (30) Latest comment 6 months ago

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  • UncleLou #1 6 months ago

    Nice. Got sidetracked a little by Skyrim, but I've finally finished UC3 last night. Loved it to bits, and it's probably my favourite (non-RPG) game series these days.

  • Lucodeath #2 6 months ago

    Make that 13 million and 1

  • AllenSpawn #3 6 months ago

    Goty for me. Though I haven't played skyrim yet!

  • Lunastra78 #4 6 months ago

    Well deserved.

    The Uncharted series is also a great way to introduce proper games to the casual gamer/nongamer crowd.

  • kirankara #5 6 months ago

    Stopped playing this to see what the patch did for shooting mechanics, and whilst its more in line with uc2's, I kinda prefer the ones it shipped with.
    Game is awesome, although the whole things falling with Nate on it etc, is slightly overdone. I actually prefer this to number 2, as well.
    Playing on hardest difficulty , so offers suitable challenge, and.getting moneys worth. Unsure I'll try MP, but regardless, my favourite game of year. Although, I can appreciate that there's other games that are better in many ways, none just bring same smile to my face

  • CaptainQuint #6 6 months ago

    The first two games were brilliant, but this one disappointed me big time.

    After finishing the campaign it's a 6/10 experience. I'm not interested in the multiplayer this time around.

    Naughty Dog have got a lot of thinking to and creative obstacles to overcome when designing the next one. They can't carry on knocking out super (visually) polished rollercoaster rides and expect everybody to continue to ignore the ever-decreasing gameplay.

  • UkHardcore23 #7 6 months ago

    Uncharted 3 was such a let down after how amazing the 2nd game was at the time, Also the dodgy controls didnt help much although they have been patched now.

  • ps-360 #8 6 months ago

    the uncharted series is the best thing in gaming!!

  • Cheddar99 #9 6 months ago

    A bit disappointed with 3, but still a great franchise.

  • God_Octo #10 6 months ago

    Yay! Uncharted has definitely been my favourite new IP of this generation. Congrats to Sony, ND and its wonderful cast.

  • FuzzyDuck #11 6 months ago

    @gotyourmoney

    My local Tesco has for some time both Unchartered 1 and 2 on sale. Thought they'd stock Uncharted 3 but lo and behold, they've plumped for Unchartered 3.

    It's misspelt 4 different times within the area of a square metre (the 3 different shelf things and their shiny, laminated top 20).

  • kirankara #12 6 months ago

    Its weird that some have been let down by third instalment of the series, whilst many have loved it, and for some of us, the third is best of three (1 was IMO, good but, just not in same classas the other 2 games)
    Don't care though.my game of year, although I do agree, it will need sprucing up for a fourth instalment.

  • RandomTerrain #13 6 months ago

    I was quite unhappy with Eurogamer for giving UC3 an 8, as I expected it to deserve a 9 or 10 going on the previous titiles but having completed the game I think it was a fair score.
    It's a great game, and I recommend it, but there's plenty that Naughty Dog can improve upon for the next one.

    But yes, it's an excellent series and I'm very interested to see how this Vita game turns out.

  • Xardan #14 6 months ago

    Do Sony marketing ever shut up?

  • MeBrains #15 6 months ago

    after having thoroughly enjoyed the previous two installments, I was a bit underwhelmed after having finished the third. I wonder where they put all the extra effort in. for a lot of us, it is a damn shame that it was not in the single player experience.

    Try out multi-player though. There is an additional co-op story - among so many other thing - to discover and the game really comes to its own playing it.

    As a single player experience, I would rate it 8 (or even 7 compared to the double 10 the series deserved for their first two installments). With the addition of the excellent multiplayer, a well-deserved 9 seems fair.

  • LLT_taz #16 6 months ago

    I enjoyed the story in UC3 was great, starting off in London then to france fitted well. ASking was Drake going to far - great character building... Online is better than 2. just didn't like the big bad men in single player.. hated.
    Most people say its not as good as UC2 cause it didn't make the massive one did from it predecessor ....

  • jonbwfc #17 6 months ago

    Personally, I think it's one of the top 3 games I've played this year (along with Deus Ex and Portal 2). I thought it was starting to sag just a little until you got to Yemen and met Elena, then it kicked up a gear and really never slowed down, both in terms of gameplay and story. The convoy chase, the fight in the ruined settlement, the shipyard.. all absolutely first class.

  • bladdard #18 6 months ago

    Well deserved sales for a brilliant new IP. UC3 wasn't quite my GOTY but it was damn close, Portal 2 pipped it.

  • Hindle #19 6 months ago

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  • MrLovePump #20 6 months ago

    Literally just finished 3. While it was an immense roller coaster the phrass "this is just taking the piss now" got said in my house way too much re the levels falling to bits etc.

    I just felt this one focused too much on shooting and not enough puzzles and innovation.

  • winstoninabox #21 6 months ago

    @CaptainQuint What is this ever-decreasing gameplay?

  • Ramboness #22 6 months ago

    It would have sold more if they made games for PC :(

  • JonahFalcon #23 6 months ago

    Uncharted SHIPPED 13M in its lifetime. The series has sold 10.79M lifetime sales.

    Quizilbash also claimed that Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception sold twice as many copies in its first week as Uncharted 2 did, which is somewhat untrue. While Uncharted 2 sold 750M units in its first week, Uncharted 3 sold 1M, hardly "twice as many".

    Uncharted 1 sold 3.9M units in its lifetime, while Uncharted 2 leaped to 5.14M units. To date, Uncharted 3 has only sold 1.75M, and sales plummeted from 1M first week sales worldwide to 200K, and in the third and fourth weeks, 132K and 47K respectively, which to Sony and Naughty Dog must be a disturbing trend.
    Edited by JonahFalcon at 06/12/11 @ 03:38

  • kirankara #24 6 months ago

    @John falcon

    Doubt they too worried tbh. Uncharted 2 took a month to sell a million units, and 3 did that in a week. Take into account the two games it went toe to toe with at launch (mw3&bf3), which are two of biggest juggernauts in industry, and they'll be pretty happy. The game will sell more at Christmas, and its Kissimmee sales will tick over nicely, if slower than games like bf3 etc. take into account, its not multi platform too, and there really isn't that much that can be asked from game. It's not an fps and doesn't compete in terms of sales with games like mw3, halo etc, and seems closer to gears series sales wise, although gears seems to have advantage over it slightly based on sales for 2 and 3. Gears sells a lot based on the MP too, which uncharted can't really compete with. The game doesn't have a nerd fan base like say Batman games, which owe to it's rich history, as well as quality of game.
    All in all, they won't be too unhappy, as long as game Carries on selling few hundred thousand here and there, as will soon add up.to have even established an IP on a platform that isn't an fps and shifts these numbers in this day and age, is pretty phenomenal tbh

  • kirankara #25 6 months ago

    should say lifetime sales, but auto correct on my phone is aannoying.

  • anthonypappa #26 6 months ago

    completed in on hard, then crushing - with all treasures. great game.

    i am going to back back to it, see what the patch is like and get the rest of the trophies.

    my only gripe was stuff caved in far too much. it became expected. less would have been more.

  • kirankara #27 6 months ago

    "my only gripe was stuff caved in far too much. it became expected. less would have been more."

    100% agree, it actually became slightly annoying how often it would happen at points. sometimes , 3-4 times within quick succession, and just felt like that added nothing to game, that 1-2 wouldn't have already done, and they were just showing off almost.

  • callum9999 #28 6 months ago

    Did the second game pick up at all? I loved the 1st, only played about a quarter of the 2nd before giving up but I've started playing the 3rd and I'm almost half way in a couple of days play (unheard of for me!).

    Though I really love the story in UC3 so far - for the life of me I can't even vaguely remember what the story in UC2 was. As long as it works, "gameplay" has never really bothered me.
    Edited by callum9999 at 06/12/11 @ 15:26

  • man.the.king #29 6 months ago

    @MrLovePump

    Literally just finished 3. While it was an immense roller coaster the phrass "this is just taking the piss now" got said in my house way too much re the levels falling to bits etc.
    I just felt this one focused too much on shooting and not enough puzzles and innovation.

    Yeah I got that impression too. While it's still an outstanding game compared to most of the competition this year, I did feel that they gave fighting and running (the escape and chase sequences) too much importance. I would have liked a bit more traversal in the game. The puzzles were fine though.

    Also, there were too many occasions when the floor beneath Drake would crumble and he would fall or catch a ledge "just in time".

    Finished on Hard and Crushing. Trying to get the rest of the trophies (while also finishing some other games - e.g. GeOW3 on Hardcore and Rayman Origins)

    Still, for me, UC3 is a solid 9/10.

  • WadiumArcadium #30 6 months ago

    It's a great series, good to see it's doing well, I certainly enjoyed the first two.