Ghost Of Tsushima: 10 Reasons Why It's A Game Of The Year Contender

10. Impressive Sales And Fan Response

Sony have had many critically and financially successful PlayStation 4 exclusives over the years, with games such as Uncharted 4, Spider-Man, God Of War, The Last Of Us Remastered and Horizon Zero Dawn all selling over 10 million copies each. And it looks like they have another major hit on their hands with Ghost Of Tsushima.

Within the first three days of launch, the game sold over 2.4 million copies, making it PlayStations fastest selling new IP, beating the previous record holder Horizon Zero Dawn and other new IP’s to launch this generation such as Knack, Days Gone and Bloodborne.

On top of this success, physical copies of the game have been hard to find in Japanese, British, Canadian and American markets, forcing PlayStation to advise people to buy a digital version until stock can be refilled.

But its crowning achievement comes from Japanese website Famitsu, who gave the game a perfect score. To put this in perspective, Ghost Of Tsushima is only the third western developed game to be awarded a perfect score from the site, putting it in the company of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Grand Theft Auto V.