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JayWood2010 said:
binary solo said:


I never thought it would be a major system seller for Xb one unlike many xb fans who have added it to the will save xb one chalkboard. 

The only people i know of that used that chalkboard is people who dont like xbox.


I was being economical with my words because typing on my phone. The order goes: fans hype up game as a saviour of their console, rationalists and haters either laugh or facepalm, haters add the game to the chalkboard. If A causes B and B causes C then A causes C. Therefore fans creating unrealistic expectations for a game causes the game to be added to the chalkboard. In fact nothing ever gets added to the chalkboard unless fans over-hype the potential benefit of the thing. A chalkboard only exists because some fans behave irrationally in the first instance. 



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I rarely watch television, but was at a friend's place and across three channels (major American networks) over two hours I saw the same ad for this game four times. I really cannot fault Microsoft with their push behind it. You can argue if the ad is good or not, but it is there.

Bit sad as this was the only X1 title I have been interested in given my love of Ratchet and Clank.



Good. Hopefully they'll be forced to bring it to ps4 then. I want this game. Well, I think. Have to wait for reviews, but it looks good.



Augen said:
I rarely watch television, but was at a friend's place and across three channels (major American networks) over two hours I saw the same ad for this game four times. I really cannot fault Microsoft with their push behind it. You can argue if the ad is good or not, but it is there.

Bit sad as this was the only X1 title I have been interested in given my love of Ratchet and Clank.

If there is one thing MS is good at its advertising. Ive seen that SO ad here in Australia over 10 times in the last week. Hopefully its enough to help push this game to great sales for XBO.



I don't think people have been visiting video game web sites either. IGN for the past 2 days have posted at least 3 videos of their staff playing SO.



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I've said it before and I'll say it again: FLOP!



I dont think we should follow the preorder numbers. Im confident the game would do better than that. I dont know how much the game would sell but i figure in the region of hyrule warriors worldwide numbers or forza horizon 2 numbers (Hopefuly those numbers would be sufficient enough for MS/Insomniac). My problem is the white xbox one thats bundled with it, it doesnt seem people care so much for a white xbox1 like the way people want (still want) a white ps4



I think it doesn't have enough attention because of COD & MCC. I bet a lot of people are eyeing the COD bundle.



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Like people have said it depends on expectations. Never saw this lighting up the charts but more as a title that would have legs. Not sure how reliable amazon hourly charts are but currently 45th for the game and 53rd for the bundle. Seems reasonably placed and if halo mcc gives the boost that most X1 fans hope it will I would see this bundle being the go to purchase as the COD one seems overpriced just for a TB hard drive.



While I agree that pre-order numbers here shouldn't really be used as gospel, I do believe the numbers for this game will be quite low. At least going by Amazon. I have never seen it in the Top 20 Bestsellers for the hour (currently it is #46), though more importantly, it doesn't rank anywhere in the Top 100 for the month or year. And while I believe Gamestop's number are also for the hour or so, the game is only ranked #66. I'm going to guess maybe ~100K-150K for the month in the US with steady drops, thereafter. Not sure it will make it to 1M LT. At least, not with the One situation the way it is outside of the US and UK.