| nordlead said: Ok, I haven't read the thread, but I'm very disappointed in American sales. Granted we only had 2 days of sales due to a weird Friday launch I expected it to manage more than Europe anyways. All this wasn't based off hype, but based off European pre-order sales. My european prediction was only slightly too high, where as my US prediction was WAY too high. Looks like Sony wins another one with the over stuffing channels. |
You have to keep in mind that Killzone is different from other shooters. The first sold far more in Europe than it did in North America, going against the grain of the genre.
I expected Killzone 2 to follow a similar path, and considering the fact that games in Europe tend to have better legs, I think the European lifetime numbers will end up higher than the NA numbers in the end.
I'm not sure why this is, however. It could be because Guerilla Games are some of the rere devs from Northern and Eastern Europe, so they may generate more supposrt from European gamers (Killzone was the best selling ps2 game ever in Poland, for example), and it may also be that SCEE pushes the game more than SCEA, particularly in the country it was made (the Netherlands), a country that probably gets pretty ignored by most publishers when it comes to advertising. It may also be that being Europeans, Guerrilla Games managed to create a franchise somewhat more appealing to Europeans than Americans.
