superchunk on 29 September 2008
| DMeisterJ said: LBP will be huge. Gears 2 at nine mil is hilarious. CoD4 didn't even do that on two consoles, duck that idea. Six or seven mil I much more likely. Gears 1 was a new IP and sold 5 mil, why not LBP. LOL. |
1. Gears 2 already has a huge base 5million+, on top of that it has an addition 2-3million of *new* halo 3 fans who are in need of a new game.
2. LBP is not anywhere near the same market penetrating genre as FPS. It is not a pure platformer like Mario and it is not a pure sim like Civilization/Spore (sim games don't normally do phenomenal on consoles). I think the mass consumer will be generally turned off by the idea that they must create the game to play the game.
