how much does the Conduit need to sell first week for not being a flop??

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MontanaHatchet said:

chapset said:

MontanaHatchet said:
Are you talking about a flop as in the game not selling in the range of its hype, or the game not making a profit? I think it will probably fall short on the first qualification, but the second one seems very possible to meet.

i don't have the slightess idea how much the game cost to produce but since it's in number one for april most wanted, the game must have some internet hype, we'll see for mainstream, i just want to know what people are especting from this game sellwise

 

Yeah, I wouldn't take Vgchartz hype as representative of hype in the industry. In 2008, LittleBigPlanet was by far the most popular game on the site. You couldn't even go a minute without seeing another thread about it (I don't even think I'm exaggerating here). Sales wise, it sold well, but not as much as this site made you believe it would.

 

Indeed... if we took this website as an indicator of a games popularity, Okami, Zack and Wiki, No More Heroes, LBP, Killzone 2 would all have sold a lot more.


As for the thread... first week doesn't matter, but if it falls below 100k worldwide I would be very suprised (I expect more like 200-250k worlwide 1st week)
Lifetime sales 2 million would be a good enough number, in truth it shouldn't really be considered a flop unless it fails to make 1 million. (although we won't know until a couple months after launch whether it will fail to do so) because yes it seems to be hyped by a decent number on here... but many Wii "owners" are already passing it off,... there were hardly any doing the same for Killzone 2.