fulcizombie on 10 December 2008
| stof said: Alright people. Lets establish some common ground here. 1. Sony's original Motorstorm currently sits at 3.67 million sales. That makes it a highly successful game (yes I know there were some bundles, no that doesn't change that it was a very successful game) 2. Sony is stating that Pacific Rift shipped one million copies to retail. 3. It is not in any way unreasonable to think that heading in to Christmas season with a larger user-base, retailers around the world might order one million copies of a sequel to a game that moved over 3.67 units. 4. Pacific Rift charted quite poorly in not just VGchartz, but also NPD and all the European charts as well. 5. It is not in any way unreasonable to assume that a sequel might not do nearly as well as it's predecessor. Especially when it's predecessor came at a time when there was relatively few quality software releases. So why is there an uproar over the idea that perhaps the game hasn't sold nearly what it has shipped? |
so a game that had ONE NPD appearance (199k) , sold 50k in Japan, and has had a few appearances only in the U.K top-40 below the 20th position has sold almost 4 million copies ? Almost as much as the original gears that had 3 appearances in the npd top-10( 1 million - 850k- 230k), debuted at n.1 in every european chart and was at the U.K top-10 for 8 weeks in the christmas season??
