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Squilliam on 18 January 2009
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forevercloud3000 said:
Squilliam said:

Only one game has reached 5M sales, and that is just barely (GTAIV). Soon there will be 6 5M+ sellers on the Xbox 360. Wheres the past precedent? You can't exactly point to a comparable game which has sold 5M+ on the PS3 because it doesn't exist. The closest example is COD IV and Killzone 2 still has to live up to that game if it has any hope of exceeding its sales.

 

Why I can see where your predictions derive from, your logic is flawed. Just because there has not been one does not mean there wont be one. If no games have released for a system yet does that mean that no game will ever sell over a million? NO! It just means it has not happened so far. No one just knew that Halo was going to sell 8+ million, but they knew it would be big. Same with CoD and Gears.

Killzone 2 has the content: its being said by all who have played it that it is actually better then COD,Gears,Halo combined! Beta testers of the game are in love with the game.

Its got the hype: Where Halo had massive tons of advertising in virtually every publication, Killzone has massive internet hype. While that does not have the range of TV and billboards, it does get the hardcore in the know how about it. Killzone 2's marketing campaign has yet to be seen and could be great.

To go the route of your thought process says that really great games that are better then the competition don't sell well because of the particular platform they are on instead of selling of their own merit. That is a concept I do not condone nor take part in.

 

I didn't say that KZ2 wouldn't sell 5M, but to sell that much is pretty incredible. Call of Duty IV is the best AND best selling shooter available to date on the PS3. To propose that ANY game in the same genre would sell 25% more than it is pretty outrageous in itself.

"Killzone 2 has the content: its being said by all who have played it that it is actually better then COD,Gears,Halo combined! Beta testers of the game are in love with the game."

I hope you're joking... Its a great game yes, but you're just setting Killzone 2 up to be hated by fans of those games.

The PS3 doesn't sell as much software every week as either the Xbox 360 or Wii. Since it gets just as many new release games, the potential sales for those games are much lower.

 



Tease.