PS3 to make the greatest sales comeback in history of console sales wars

[DirtyP2002]

HideoK said:

Actually Uncharted's 2.34 million lifetime sales is nothing to scoff at.
2.19 million for Little Big Planet isn't exactly little either. (Not to mention all the DLC sold)

Had those "AAA" games underperformed under 500k that would have been pretty poor sales. A million seller is still very good. The bar can't be set by Halo 3. Hardly any game can compare to Halo 3's insanely high sales of 9.61 million. Only Grand Theft Auto (7.04 Xbox, 5.61 PS3; combined total 12.65) , Call of Duty 4 (7.34 Xbox, 4.27 PS3; combined total 11.61), and top Nintendo games come close; Smash Bros Brawl (8.41), Mario Galaxy (7.92). While Wii Fit (19.24) & Mario Kart Wii (15.74) standalone surpass it. EPIC sales for all those games.

But what really matters is are those games successful within their budgets? In this case Uncharted 2 and Little Big Planet are definite successes.

Now Killzone 2 at 1.6 million does seem a little low for all the hype and development time that game had. But remember it has only been out for 3 months). Now I'm not sure of the exact budget for Killzone 2, so even at 1.6 million sold Guerilla Games could be still taking a loss on profit. But not one that GG can't continue to make up. With continued support through DLC and a sequel which is no doubt greenlit. It can use the same engine, physics, character/environment/weapon assets, etc; so it will be much cheaper to develop & make money on "Killzone 3" and "Killzone 4". Plus with an even more PS3 hardware out there and growing fan base I think Killzone 2 could eventually match current MGS4 sales numbers (4.00 million sold).

Ehm no.

1. Uncharted² using the sam engine like Uncharted, both had a 20 million USD budget (Same for Gears/2)
2. There is no way Killzone will make it up to 4 million, since this one seems to have no legs at all. It sold 58k in US last month according to NPD and let's say 65k in Europe (both markets have similar sales). Thats 123k for one month. So it needs 2.4 million to get to MGS-level. So it needs 19.5 months to get there. Of course sales will decrease and not be on the level they are right now. 2.5 million is possible if you ask me.