Too far to tell out to see. It's not as well of established franchise as say Halo, Mario, Pokemon, GTA, GT, or Zelda where you can pretty much already gear how huge the hype already is. God of War is going to have to work for it.
But I could imagine that it has a chance to be a big seller. Definitely not a sales monster but a big seller. Back when the first 2 released games like that weren't being released all the time. Now they really are and the "action"/hack and slash genre is really starting to take off. And unlike Madworld, it's not niche enough to really scare too many gamers away despite the obvious loads of gore.
My guesses is this game could easily sell 4-5 million lifetime if it is advertised well and seen as that big PS3 game early next year. If this doesn't go down though then it could get a little lost. I mean they need to make sure that despite all the big multi-plat games, this is the PS3 exclusive you have to get. It's easier for a company like Nintendo to do this (sometimes it works too well haha) and even MS with some of their properties but Sony has a more difficult time apparently. Let's hope they put a lot of effort into the marketing and keep that hype going steady until the launch day. If that then 4-5 million isn't out of the question. Just hope they don't get severe competition from 3rd parties.
