Onyxmeth said:
I have nothing against the Sack. You honestly can't say that advertising budget couldn't have been better spent on Resistance 2, Motorstorm Pacific Rift and SOCOM Confrontation though. If they were to have halfed the ad budget from LBP and spread it accordingly across the other three titles, I feel while LBP probably would have lost maybe half it's sales, the others would have increased greatly to the point that much more money would have been in Sony's pocket. Lose 800,000, and maybe gain 3 million. It was boneheaded for them to back the least marketable game in their Fall lineup as the headliner.
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To be fair, LBP was the best game in the PS3's holiday lineup by far...
Not really marketable, not appealing to the PS3's audience, but definitely better than the others. SOCOM turned out to be buggy, Pacific Rift didn't do particularly well. Using metacritic as a source of reviewer opinion:
Resistance 2: 87
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift: 81
SOCOM: Confrontation: 62
LittleBigPlanet: 95
They made the mistake of thinking a great game will always sell great numbers. Having said that, though, for what LBP is, the fact that it will cross 2 million, and probably 3 million, is nothing short of astonishing.
OT: They hear a few people saying Killzone 2 will save the PS3, and then assume that nobody can like it because it's a great game, only because it will "save" their console. That's part of it. I think (see, it is in PS3 fans' vocabulary 
)a part of it is jealousy, the fact that they won't be able to play Killzone 2. Part of it is Sony hate.
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