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Euphoria14 on 12 January 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
Euphoria14 said:
letsdance said:
3 million and rising isn't a hit... weird... I didn't know selling multi millions on a low budget title isn't a hit.

You didn't know? You need to sell at least 5-6+ Million before you're considered a hit. We have only had a few hits this gen.

so 3D Dot Heroes will be a negative hit? 

& MGS4 not a hit?

If you look at VGChartz sales date you will see that only MGS and MGS2 were hits. MGS3 only did 4.07M.

It wasn't a flop, but it also wasn't a hit. It was just your average run of the mill when it comes to sales.

 

The average game sells around 3-4M.

 

3D Dot Game Heroes wasn't a negative hit in Japan. It was a flop.

 

 

Also FromSoftware games usually sell around 150-250k. So even though Demon's Souls is over 500k at the moment between US & Japan and seeing somewhat healthy legs so far it is also not a hit.

"Why is it not a hit if it is one of FromSoftware's best sellers ever?" You may ask.

Simple. FromSoftware, MediaMolecule, etc... do not consider was "hit" means. Only us forum goers do.



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--OkeyDokey-- on 12 January 2010

Avinash_Tyagi predicted Wii Fit would outsell the entire GTA franchise. It fell 50 million short of that prediction. What a massive flop Wii Fit is.



Euphoria14 on 12 January 2010
CGI-Quality said:
Steroid said:
Well that's more then 3 times what Lost Odyssey sold. Even if LBP had been on 360 it wouldn't have sold. Only shooters manage to sell over 4 million on that console.

Assassin's Creed, Forza Motorsport 2, & GTA IV say otherwise my friend. Fable III and Forza 3 may cross that as well.

 

Fable 2 sold 3.37M. Fable sold 2.57M. Fable isn't a hit franchise.

 

Alright, i'm done with the jokes.



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Chairman-Mao on 12 January 2010

Yeah what a flop. I mean don't all new IP's hit 3 million?



wholikeswood on 12 January 2010
Maynard_Tool said:
Good sales. Didn't do as sony expected but still 3 million is a big accomplishmet. Not my game though

I knew as soon as I saw your avatar that this post wouldn't be positive, and I was right.

Can you substantiate this claim? Provide a link to where Sony revealed their sales target for the game?

It's obvious that you're just trying to take the game down a notch with some vague notion of massive expectations, and hoping that no one calls you out on it.



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Ajescent on 12 January 2010
Chairman-Mao said:
Yeah what a flop. I mean don't all new IP's hit 3 million?


They actually hit 5



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Carl on 12 January 2010
CGI-Quality said:
Steroid said:
CGI-Quality said:
Steroid said:
Well that's more then 3 times what Lost Odyssey sold. Even if LBP had been on 360 it wouldn't have sold. Only shooters manage to sell over 4 million on that console.

Assassin's Creed & GTA IV say otherwise my friend.

 

I meant exclusives.

Now, read the edit: Forza 2 ring any bells?

Forza 2 only sold 3.5 Million, according to Turn 10

Forza 1 also sold 1.5 Million, not just 1 Million.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=91316

Still waiting for those adjustments...



                            

Chairman-Mao on 12 January 2010
Ajescent said:
Chairman-Mao said:
Yeah what a flop. I mean don't all new IP's hit 3 million?


They actually hit 5

Oh gee LBP did horribly! my mistake.



Euphoria14 on 12 January 2010
wholikeswood said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Good sales. Didn't do as sony expected but still 3 million is a big accomplishmet. Not my game though

I knew as soon as I saw your avatar that this post wouldn't be positive, and I was right.

Can you substantiate this claim? Provide a link to where Sony revealed their sales target for the game?

It's obvious that you're just trying to take the game down a notch with some vague notion of massive expectations, and hoping that no one calls you out on it.

Media Molecule exec Alex Evans:

“I'm really happy with the sales, because I know how few games turn a profit so quickly. It's a double edged sword. I think a lot of the disappointment comes from hard times and the recession, and then the fact that there was [sic] so many insanely big games that came out at once. There's all these different reasons that you could be disappointed with the sales and look at it that way, or you can say we kept pace with the Fallouts etc. Every other game that we were keeping pace with was a third or fourth iteration, and this is our first one.”

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Creators-Are-Happy-With-LittleBigPlanet-Sales-101108.shtml

 

Well I know at least someone is happy with the sales and the fact it turned a profit really fast. This was in January, back when the game was probably around 2M in sales.

 

Edit -

 

Actually at CES '09 Kaz Harai announced that LBP sold around 1.3M copies of LBP if I am not mistaken, so yes, I would say they are very pleased with the sales now at 3M.



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--OkeyDokey-- on 12 January 2010
KylieDog said:
letsdance said:


No US bundling at all. The Uncharted bundle was the only bundle in the US when LBP launched. And UK's might make up of... oh 50k sales... IF that.

 

50k?  When it was bundled for a year and Europe heavily imports from UK?

I see someone is still holding a grudge because their level got deleted.