I had said this many weeks ago & now reality is coming knocking up our doors.
Call Of Duty : World At War has managed to cross 1 Million on the Ps3 in a matter of 2 weeks....almost making it within the first week...
it ranks as I believe the 3rd or 4th biggest launch of a Ps3 game ever....right behind MGS4.
A week earlier Resistance 2 is launched and comes out to comparatively mediocre sales.
Now in UK....Resistance 2 in its DEBUT week CHARTED BELOW COD:WAW in its 2nd week.
Also in UK -- Resistance 2 debuted to sales of 2/3 BELOw Resistance 1's week 1....this is P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C as Resistance 1's week 1 was in PS3's launch week!!
NA -- COD : WAW has managed to do in its FIRST WEEK in sales (390K) what Resistance 2 has still failed to do by its 4th week (only at 360K)
EU -- who knows what will happen here....if it follows UK's trend very worrying for Resistance 2.
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So why has a sequel to a title which sold 3.6 Million not done well (Resistance wasn't bundled heavily).
Because of COD4 is my answer....COD4 led to COD becoming a mainstream monster & now people think COD = quality (which it actually may as metacritic wise COD:WAW>>R2)
Resistance 1 never had COD4 to compete against.....now COD5 has become the GTA 4 that managed to halt Saints Row 2's relative success.
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SONY could've never predicted Call Of Duty will negatively affect R2....well it just has.
Thank God Killzone 2 is miles away from a release of a Call Of Duty
