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Will Killzone Mercenary be a flop?

Yes, it will be very bad. 73 39.67%
 
No, the game will be awesome! 111 60.33%
 
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Mmmfishtacos on 06 January 2013
JayWood2010 said:
Mmmfishtacos said:

Call of duty is reaching half a million sold. 15 percent attach rate is hardly a flop. Critically sure.

Anyway, Killzone should do pretty well.


The savior of the vita and a game that usually sells more than 20 million copies, yes 500k is a huge flop


Sure, when the psp version sold 2 million with a much larger install base. So no it isn't a flop, it has a good attach ratio and we all know nothing was spent on development should have sold enough copies to make money, not a flop there either.



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Jaywood2010 on 06 January 2013
Mmmfishtacos said:
JayWood2010 said:
Mmmfishtacos said:

Call of duty is reaching half a million sold. 15 percent attach rate is hardly a flop. Critically sure.

Anyway, Killzone should do pretty well.


The savior of the vita and a game that usually sells more than 20 million copies, yes 500k is a huge flop


Sure, when the psp version sold 2 million with a much larger install base. So no it isn't a flop, it has a good attach ratio and we all know nothing was spent on development should have sold enough copies to make money, not a flop there either.


so you dont think it is a flop with a 31 metacritic and lower than 500k sold?  You do know that flop means underperforms and to not meat expectations, which it has done in both categories




       

yum123 on 06 January 2013

depends entirely if sony and guerilla care about it. if they do I dont think it will flop



Farsala on 06 January 2013

I am thinking along the lines of the CoD game in sales.



Mmmfishtacos on 06 January 2013
JayWood2010 said:
Mmmfishtacos said:
JayWood2010 said:
Mmmfishtacos said:

Call of duty is reaching half a million sold. 15 percent attach rate is hardly a flop. Critically sure.

Anyway, Killzone should do pretty well.


The savior of the vita and a game that usually sells more than 20 million copies, yes 500k is a huge flop


Sure, when the psp version sold 2 million with a much larger install base. So no it isn't a flop, it has a good attach ratio and we all know nothing was spent on development should have sold enough copies to make money, not a flop there either.


so you dont think it is a flop with a 31 metacritic and lower than 500k sold?  You do know that flop means underperforms and to not meat expectations, which it has done in both categories


It all depends are who's expectations where talking about? A company that half assed the game or forum goers? I'm sure the game made money, so the company should be some what happy considering their effort put into it. And i already agreed that critically it was a flop.



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ktay95 on 06 January 2013

in terms of sales im not sure, however critically it will perform better than CoD and Resistance



Dgc1808 on 06 January 2013
JayWood2010 said:
Mmmfishtacos said:
JayWood2010 said:
Mmmfishtacos said:

Call of duty is reaching half a million sold. 15 percent attach rate is hardly a flop. Critically sure.

Anyway, Killzone should do pretty well.


The savior of the vita and a game that usually sells more than 20 million copies, yes 500k is a huge flop


Sure, when the psp version sold 2 million with a much larger install base. So no it isn't a flop, it has a good attach ratio and we all know nothing was spent on development should have sold enough copies to make money, not a flop there either.


so you dont think it is a flop with a 31 metacritic and lower than 500k sold?  You do know that flop means underperforms and to not meat expectations, which it has done in both categories


Developed by Nihilistic Software in 5 months. 31 meta sounds about right given that devs track record. 

The highest selling CoD on PS3 is MW3. It has a 17.5% attach ratio.  If Declassified gets a 15% attach ratio, that would be pretty impressive considering how hard it's slammed.

What the hell were your expectations? The minute we got word Nihilistic was working on the title hype for the title started deflating like mad. 



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Jay520 on 06 January 2013

I predict it'll sell 50k. When it outsells that figure, I can say it was a success and not a flop because it exceeded my expectations.



Jay520 on 06 January 2013
JayWood2010 said:


so you dont think it is a flop with a 31 metacritic and lower than 500k sold?  You do know that flop means underperforms and to not meat expectations, which it has done in both categories


As far as sales go, I don't see how it's a flop.

What were you expecting it to sell?

Things to keep in mind when forming sales expectations: 
- It was made in 5 months.
- The Vita has only sold 4 million units.
- CoD games on the PS3 attain a 13-16% attach ratio.

Also keep in mind the game is still selling, as it's only six weeks old.

What did you expect this game to sell?



Godchild1020 on 06 January 2013

It's being made by Guerrilla Cambridge with the guidance from Guerrilla Games, so I expect an 80-85 Metacritic score. They will get a better score than Killzone Liberation, but a lower score than Killzone 2.

I think the only problem will be with reviewers, reviewing the game and comparing it to the console version. Which in turn, might lower the score it could have gotten.