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The Last of Us sells 6M copies on PlayStation 3

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Developer Naughty Dog announced today that it has sold more than 6 million units of its post-apocalyptic game The Last Of Us.

That generated an estimated $360 million at retail for the publisher, Sony Computer Entertainment, making it the fastest-selling PlayStation 3 game ever made. That shows the wisdom of shipping a big game at the end of a console cycle, as Sony has sold more than 80 million PS3s to date.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.