Heavenly Sword - 77.445 first week- flop or not flop sales?

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ssj12 said:

HappySqurriel said:

Remember that Metroid Prime 3 and Bioshock were both on shelves for 4 days and still sold well over 3 times as many units as Heavenly Sword has ...

For a highly anticipated game, often cited as a major reason why people will buy a PS3, (roughly) 75,000 units sold in its first day would be a disapointment

 I havent been on these forums long enough but you probably predicted MotorStorm and Resistance to flop..they didnt. 

That would be silly.  They were launch games.  Launch games are like the old saying about being chased by a bear.  You don't have to outrun the bear, you have to outrun the other people.

Games are going to be bought at launch no matter what, so you don't need to make a game worthy of selling over a million, you just need to make better games then the other few games that are coming out around launch. (Not saying resistance is a bad game, or motorstorm even, though I didn't like motorstorm at all.  Just saying it would be stupid to predict they would sell bad because even if they were mediocre games they would of sold well because they were launch games and the rest of the PS3 launch games were pretty much trash.)