| NeoRatt said: I would be surprised if Fable II did one million the first week. Mass Effect did 385.000 first week. I would think that Fable II would be more in the 500,000-700,000 range taking into account the increased install base. |
I agree.
Useless anecdotal evidence:
Based on my friends list (sample size of ~90) this is selling a lot closer to Mass Effect, BioShock and even Braid than it is to CoD4, GoW, and halo 3. And that's still great for a RPG. Also, positive word of mouth will really help this game sell consistently throughout the holiday season.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
