Messed up LBP launch

[Shanobi]

Torillian said:
What sales do you expect then Shanobi? Throw me a Ballpark on the first week, and then what it makes by the end of the year.

 

Well, I haven't been following things lately, so I'm not sure if this is being released in all regions at once, or not.

 

I'll say that I think the American sales will be somewhere around 500k for the first week. (I also haven't seen pre-order info, so I may be way off.)

By years end, worldwide, I'd say the game will be somewhere close to 3 or 3.5 million, and trailing off from there.

 

Again, just a guess and I haven't been keeping up with things of late. I just don't know if I see a cute, albeit awesome, looking 2d platformer doing well on the PS3 at this time, especially a new i.p., and taking into account how hard it is to move platform games these days on any system. (Super Mario Galaxy is still chugging along, though slowly, and I would guess that platform games are typically going to sell better on Wii than PS3. Especially ones with "Mario" in the title.)

Not trying to diminish LBP, I just don't know if it's going to do what a lot of people seem to expect it to.