Predict inFamous first week!

[TheSteve]

papflesje said:
Hmm, ioi said over 150k and under 200k.

Now I just can't grasp why titles like this (or others) do this badly... okay, other titles have received abysmal marketing so that's something that can be pointed towards for the failure... but this game apparently got decent marketing so should do relatively well.

Yet, it won't even reach 200k. It's weird how Nintendo and MS can (i'm just exaggerating here) just fart in a glass and sell 4 million copies of it pretty much instantly :-/ Okay, install base and marketing but if this game has had decent marketing.... then why?

I think it's all in the games that are hyped...  This game has received a ton of marketing and gimmicks to help it (Uncharted Beta anyone?), but when you say "hey, screw that game I haven't heard of... this inFamous one is getting a ton of coverage!!" Then, they get it, and it's good but not great...  It's like "is this the best there is?"

InFamous doesn't suck, but it wasn't the "system seller" it was getting hyped as any more than a number of others was.