LBP Sales Expectations (A little high, eh?)

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Captain Amazing said:
I'll admit wholeheartedly that it's not "everyone" who thinks of LBP in terms of overestimated predictions, but I am referring particularly to certain individuals who are doing so. I speak not only of VGChartz.com but also many other boards I've seen as well as excited fans. Expectations are high and I don't believe that can be disputed. My point is simply that expectations are too high.

I believe it's a strawman argument of quite some ridiculousness to try to discredit what I'm trying to say here by insinuating that I have somehow cast a blanket on all users everywhere.

Gab,

You could be right about the "real" data being forthcoming, but we shall see. You're also correct on your first point in that, eventually, it will be shown what direction these sales will go. However, the point of this discussion starting was to address the point that expectations are higher than realizations (the latter being forthcoming, but initial results support my original claim which is why this discussion is taking place).

This is mainly my only issue with your post though, is that you know full well it was only 2-3 people with these outrageous predictions and yet, just like many people the last few days (They shall remain nameless although they know who they are) they try to inflate this number and cause it to appear as though many, if not majority of the PS3 community had these same predictions.

It is like the Japan thread, people predicted 20-30K first day and 50-60K first week with the exception of, would you gave guessed it? Crazzyman. Then when the game sold what 90% of the thread felt it was going to sell you had the same people come into the thread and start stirring shit and claiming what they knew damn well was completely false and began generalizing majority of the community into thinking it was going to sell much much more.

This all because of a quote "LBP will be HUGE", started by DMeisterJ, which they assumed (We all know what assumptions lead to, yes, making an ASS out of U and ME.) it meant outrageously high sales and tried using as a weapon against the PS3 community.