RAGE, once of my most anticipated shooters this gen, will be a sales flop.

Dont get me wrong. I think it will be a GREAT game, as I love Carmack and iD softwares style of FPS. It seems to have unique driving elements and large open worlds. The graphics also look good, but next to Crysis2, Killzone 2, Battlefield 3 and Uncharted 3, Rage suddenly isnt as spectacular as it was a couple years ago.

This game has simply been in development far too long. 6-7 years now.

RAGE could've been a sales monster and heavy hitter in the FPS market if it had come out last summer. The market is way too oversaturated right now and there is too much FPS competition.

It's also releasing the same day as Resistance 3 on PS3 which Sony is pushing pretty hard. Gears 3 comes out a month later on 360.

John Carmack has an interview up on Gamespot and he flat out admits the game took way too long to develop. It seems like he knows they missed the boat on the console FPS craze.

I don't see RAGE being a good seller. Maybe 2 million on 360 and 1 million on PS3. Decent sales... but considering how long it took them to develop, will be considered a huge flop.

i agree too much quality coming out.

I agree, there releasing it at the wrong time aswell it will probably have a higher meta then most games this fall but sequels almost alway win and this fall is full of them. plus ive bumped this game to get skyrim

I agree with Newcloud, I'm much more hyped out Skyrim than Rage. If reviews are really good, I MIGHT be inclined to pick it up at a later point, but with so many other games coming out this fall that I'm looking forward too like BF3, Gears 3, Batman, Forza 4 and the aformentioned Skyrim, I just don't see how I'd even find time for it, much less the cash for it lol.

A lot of games are going to flop their are to many games coming out. I think that their are alteast 30 games I want that release from the end of september till the end of december.... As gamers we may be happy that their are so many games coming but the devs probably don't like it.

There have been to many games this gen that went with the post Apocalypse route.

Sure this game will over different aspects to the game, like driving objectives, but when it comes down it will be looked at as another fps.

They took to long to release this game, and look how many other great games that have been released this gen, some going on the 3rd version.

I don't know if it will be a commercial hit, but I got to play it briefly few months back and the game is freekin awesome.

None of the FPS games this year have been the complete package. Bulletstorm was good but too light on content, Homefront was just crap all around, Crysis 2 was... "visuals visuals visuals... wait, whats enemy AI?".

This one feels absolutely complete gameplay wise and looks beeter than Crysis 2 on consoles.

Also, your prediction of 3 million sales on console is a huge flop these days? It will be pretty decent for any game to sell 3 million units. What did Crysis 2 sell?

if by flop you mean between 2-3M units ... than yes, this will flop. a very successful flop.

3 mill across all platforms, good for the level of comp

i think it will do 4-5 million lifetime(360,ps3,pc). That is not a flop at all. Thats good-very good even if it has been in development for 7 years. Alan wake was in development for around 5 years and its sold(including digital) probably 1.5 million, and remedy called it a commercial success.