The comparison is apt because both games struggled with reviews and sales at launch, but ended up selling well enough by word of mouth. I doubt Ronin will end up selling 8mil copies like Days Gone, mostly because Koei Tecmo doesn't tend to drop their prices all that quickly. More @Wikipedia
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