Left 4 Dead 2 hits 2 million sales.

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newbie3 said:
So, it's basically selling a lot better than Uncharted 2 did, yet of course it's sales success is mostly ignored here, I wonder why...

 

Exclusives seem to garner more attention in general than multiplatform games. There are exceptions, but most actual gameplay discussion on vgc is for exclusive games. This may be because official threads are divided by platform for exclusives, or may simply be because exclusives are generally of higher quality or are more hyped by the fanbase, while offical threads for multiplats are made in the gaming forum and don't seem to be visted. I agree that L4D2 has been largely ignored. We do have a relatively small population of x360 and pc gamers compared to Wii and PS3 owners, but I don't think that explains it all.

I would say that some x360 owners are less inclined to discuss multiplatform (PC/X360) games now that they are no longer able to call them exclusive. Previously, games that were PC/360 could be called "exclusive" by x360 owners and they tended to gravitate towards those games, not unlike how ps3 only owners gravitate towards any ps3 exclusive that looks semi-decent. We seemed to have a fair number of people who enjoyed the original L4D here, but very very few who want to actually discuss the game.

Other multiplats like borderlands (despite great x360 sales) seems to have suffered the same fate being largely ignored by the VGC population for whatever reason.