| pitzy272 said: Finally! Someone else seems to be as disappointed as I am about the sales! Yeah, I've been mad even before the game came out, seeing the pre-order sales fail to rise nearly as high as I expected, esp after seeing odst get 2.2 mill first week and being a complete rip-off (not just my opinion, been said many times, even by fans of the franchise...). Making it seem a little better, though, PS3 has ~7 million less units out on the market than 360, which is a little less than a 1/3 of PS3 units. So U2 woulda theoretically sold around 1,100,000 first week. Oh, and also, American sales only had 5 days recorded, not a week; and the "Japan" and "Other" categories I think only had 2 days of sales recorded. For Uncharted 1, the "Other" section held like 1.5x more sales than America. So honestly, I think U2 should've had at least 1 mill sales if all regions would have been recorded for a full 7 days. Annnnnnyways, bottom line, PS3 owners have to start being more dedicated to their exclusive franchises. U2 deserves amazing sales more than any other game out there. Naughty Dog is king... |
Arent all if not most games released on the same date in respective regions.
When we discuss first week here its general in the terms all games are released by. Its not like uncharted is the first game released on these dates in the regions.
First week is first week for all games.
And even if the PS3 had 7 million more consoles, as UC to UC2 grew 6 times yet the base didnt grow 6 times. Its not a straight ratio in terms of install base which is why claiming games should sell better or worse due to their respective install base is also not true, look at FFX and FFXII, games dont grow in unison because people buy consoles for different reasons over time.
All in all, UC2 sales are remarkable considering what the first UC did and UC was released in the middle of the holiday period so we should only see even more impressive sales from UC2.
I really dont understand how people are disappointed with UC2 sales when we compare it to UC and the dates in which they were released.
