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Carl on 16 January 2013

No. You have to look at consistancy and growth.

LBP sold really well. 5.1 Million
LBP2 didnt do as well. 2.8 Million*

What this shows is that LBP was a title where you either loved it or hated it. There is no growth and the second game sold a whole lot less. It holds an average of ~3.95 Million per title.

GoW sold 4.4 Million
GoW2 sold 4.1 Million
GoW3 sold 4.5 Million*

This shows the game is very well recieved by the audience it targets. Its consistantly selling over 4 Million units and currently experiencing growth with GoW3 being the best selling game in the series. It holds an average of ~4.3 Million per game.



                            

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Wander_ on 16 January 2013
Carl2291 said:
No. You have to look at consistancy and growth.

LBP sold really well. 5.1 Million
LBP2 didnt do as well. 2.8 Million*

What this shows is that LBP was a title where you either loved it or hated it. There is no growth and the second game sold a whole lot less. It holds an average of ~3.95 Million per title.

GoW sold 4.4 Million
GoW2 sold 4.1 Million
GoW3 sold 4.5 Million*

This shows the game is very well recieved by the audience it targets. Its consistantly selling over 4 Million units and currently experiencing growth with GoW3 being the best selling game in the series. It holds an average of ~4.3 Million per game.


Correction: God of War 3 sold 5.2million



Turkish on 16 January 2013

God of War 3 is a game, not a franchise, I'm sure people already told you the difference.



Carl on 16 January 2013
Wander_ said:
Carl2291 said:
No. You have to look at consistancy and growth.

LBP sold really well. 5.1 Million
LBP2 didnt do as well. 2.8 Million*

What this shows is that LBP was a title where you either loved it or hated it. There is no growth and the second game sold a whole lot less. It holds an average of ~3.95 Million per title.

GoW sold 4.4 Million
GoW2 sold 4.1 Million
GoW3 sold 4.5 Million*

This shows the game is very well recieved by the audience it targets. Its consistantly selling over 4 Million units and currently experiencing growth with GoW3 being the best selling game in the series. It holds an average of ~4.3 Million per game.


Correction: God of War 3 sold 5.2million

The * after the numbers means that I was using VGC numbers. Really should have put it at the end of my post

Someone should make a thread about those GoW3 numbers.



                            

sales2099 on 16 January 2013
kitler53 said:

i feel like this thread is a parody of the ongoing forza vs. GT arguments that appear in every other thread..

Well technically if your doing IP sales it really is 3 games vs 1 for the generation.

Ascension should shake things up though.



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Wander_ on 16 January 2013
Carl2291 said:
Wander_ said:
Carl2291 said:
No. You have to look at consistancy and growth.

LBP sold really well. 5.1 Million
LBP2 didnt do as well. 2.8 Million*

What this shows is that LBP was a title where you either loved it or hated it. There is no growth and the second game sold a whole lot less. It holds an average of ~3.95 Million per title.

GoW sold 4.4 Million
GoW2 sold 4.1 Million
GoW3 sold 4.5 Million*

This shows the game is very well recieved by the audience it targets. Its consistantly selling over 4 Million units and currently experiencing growth with GoW3 being the best selling game in the series. It holds an average of ~4.3 Million per game.


Correction: God of War 3 sold 5.2million

The * after the numbers means that I was using VGC numbers. Really should have put it at the end of my post

Someone should make a thread about those GoW3 numbers.


VGchartz really hates GoW3. Once it was at 5m and they adjusted it down to 4.4m for no reason at all. Even when Sony said they sold 5.2m.



zumnupy10 on 16 January 2013
ninjablade said:

Little big planet 5.11 million LDT sales

GOW3 4.5 million

 

what do you guys think is little big planet now a bigger franshise then GOW.


Little Big planet ended up selling really well for a new IP.  Combined with LBP2 numbers, the franchise is easily over 8M.

GOWIII numbers are undertracked for sure.  I doubt it sold less than UC2.



Chris Hu on 16 January 2013

Somebody already mentioned that LittleBigPlanet 1 was heavily bundled when you look at the numbers for the second game you can see its true sales potential which is around the 3 million mark God of War can easily sell over 4 million without any bundling.



Wander_ on 16 January 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Still can't believe nobody has taken the advice. This wasn't meant to be a realistic comparison, people. He just decided to attempt the bundled vs non-bundled argument, picking two titles with no relation except exclusivity.


i still don't get your advice.



bananaking21 on 16 January 2013

GoW 3 is a franchise ?? good to know