scottie on 03 July 2009
Damn, that sucks. Poor valve.
A new IP generally has good legs, bad first week sales and abysmal pre-orders, simply because everyone wants to wait to see if it's actually good.
If a 2nd game in a franchise is to sell as much as the first, it generally needs to have (as far as I've observed) twice the first week sales, which corresponds to at least 4x the preorders.
