LBP Sales week 2 -- Increase of 60K in NA! 400K WW! Good Or Bad??

[DMeisterJ]

Oyvoyvoyv said:

DMeisterJ said:

starcraft said:
LBP is anything but huge based on existing sales figures. The hype for this game was always doomed to result in relative disappointment.

Nonetheless, it is good that the game looks to be getting towards being commercially successful, to accompany it's critical acclaim.

"Relative disappointment"?

No one is disappointed.  It's week 1 sales of 400k and it's only in 2 regions, not counting EU.  >_>  If EU sales are anything like NA sales for the game, it will do another 300kish for it's opening week there, bringing it to 700k week 1 in all regions.  More than my 500k week one prediction.

Disappointment would be if 1st week sales were well under 500k, but it looks like well over 500k.

The problem is that people look at the predictions other people make subjectively.

DMesiterJ looks at the predictions, and ignores the lunitecs predicting 1.5M

Selnor looks at the predictions, and ignores everyone, but the people predicting 1.5M

 

DMeisterJ has a feeling the normal person predicts lower than they really do, Selnor has a feeling they predicted higher.

So you see it as a big success, and he sees it as a relative dissapointment, whereas it is really somewhere in between.

I was just focusing on my prediction of sales which were 500k first week, which was generous considering the fact that it's a new IP and such.  So 700k for a first week would have me very happy, and not relative disappointed.