The Damning Truth: The percentage of LTD sales sold in the first week

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Munkeh111 said:
Interesting, but of course it varies greatly from game to game. Most shooters tend to have much smaller legs, with more casual games having longer legs. So for most shooters you will probably need closer to 300k to reach 1m.

Of course there is no concrete pattern, but very good research nonetheless

I was about to say the opposite. CoD4, Halo 3 and Gears have all sold well for over a year now, same with Gears 2, Left 4 Dead, and to a certain extent, Resistance 2.

Killzone 2's legs remain to be seen.

And also, thanks for putting in so much work, OP. So, on average, a game on PS3 will sell roughly a quarter of its LT sales on opening week.

Next job: Genre by genre

Lol, hopefully someone can do that at some point. I'll see how hard it is...

EDIT: Slight problem in this method. These games are still selling. So these aren't Life to Death sales, they're Life to Date sales. Which, unfortunately, makes them quite inaccurate. For example, Killzone 2 is currently at around 1.4 million units sold. It's not going to stop there, or anywhere near there. It'll cross 3 million with ease, and could hit 4 million. So you can't say that it sold half of its LT sales in its opening week, because it won't, it'll sell around 18%.