Prince of Persia sleeper hit confirmed?!

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seece said:

mrstickball said:
It's actually a sleeper hit. PoP has received very little fanfare from VGC, or any other gaming forum for that matter. Yet, the reviews have been stellar, and it seems ioi is saying the game has moved a significant number of copies.

The MGC #s aren't a good indicator - as said - they have some issues since they've merged PoP classic with PoP 2009.

Thanks for the back up! Its interesting to see such low numbers on MGC. I can only guess because this doesn't seem like a very online orientated game most people are playing offline. Also maybe a lot of copys where bought and wrapped up for christmas.

Also Maybe a lot of the 800k buyers last week picked up a copy this week and have yet to subscribe to live. Just throwing out excuses here!

Well, MGC can skew data both ways, and easily: Left 4 Dead is #5 on their list, yet did pretty mediocre it's first week. I had it pegged at 500,000 o/w (which it's there by week 2 thanks to huge US legs, but still)...It debuted at half that. MGC can skew online titles - so we can assume the inverse can be true, as well.

And since it's near Christmas, your going to get a huge influx of new X360 owners that don't know about MGC - data tends to become less accurate around this time of the year for retail extrapolations. Sure, we can tell what old X360 owners are buying, but the new ones are much more elusive.