binary solo said:
Forza 2 worldwide LTD sales: 4.07 million vs. Uncharted DF worldwide LTD sales: 2.78 million. It would be a brave person who would make the claim that UC2 would stay ahead of FM3. UC2 could well see a better growth in sales over UC1 compared to FM3 over FM2. But in total sales FM3 should be well ahead. Perhaps after the respective opening weeks, if people had considered these 2 unrelated games' respective sales through December a good number might have predicted UC2 would stay ahead of FM3 to the end of December. But I think everyone who knows past FM sales would have said that FM games have good legs and a 300K difference in opening week is not that much to make up for a major 360 franchise. |
Everybody kept talking about how heavily bundled FM2 was to reach that total so it wasn't the white wash result you and others are making out. Also I cannot think of a bigger title other than MW2 releasing this xmas for the PS3, it had far less competition to take away sales, it was bundled (so was Forza 3), it was also heavily marketed being the main exclusive this year for the PS3.
With hindsight having seen the opening weeks then yes perhaps it wasn't such a bold prediction but before either game hit the shelves you would have been a brave man to predict it on here. I personally expected Uncharted 2 to cruise away from FM3 in the first few months then be passed in the long term. I guess FM3 did better in the opening weeks than I expected it could. still surprised it has the legs it does now.
