Sony: Motorstorm Pacific Rift hits over a million sold

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Max King of the Wild said:

Deviation59 said:

stof said:

So why is there an uproar over the idea that perhaps the game hasn't sold nearly what it has shipped?

It all comes down to the extreme nature of the disparity in numbers. The idea that 750,000 copies of the game are sitting on shelves just seems ridiculous to me.

 

 For me it's the fact that I don't believe retailers would have ordered that many copies.

Retailers order by demand. Retailers guess demand by preorders. Preorders are usually picked up first week. First week sales werent impressive. Preorders probably werent impressive.

On top of that the first game sold 3.67 mil with bundles with budget re-release and in 2 years. The first game didn't sell EXTRORDINARILY WELL to make retailers believe the second would be a smash hit.

If you don't think a new ip selling 3.67 million on a console user base not even up to 18 million NOW, let alone when the game was released, then yes, I guess I can see where you're coming from. But to me that's pretty damn impressive sales, and there'd be plenty of reason to believe that the sequel would build on and surpass that sales level.

It would be wrong, but there was still plenty of reason to believe it.