| BoneyBoy said: LMAO at the people saying "naughty dog said they would be happy with 2.5 million sold" Have you ever heard of public relations? What else are they gonna say? The ps3 install base has grown by about 10 million since UC1 released, the game is being advertised like crazy, it got OUTSTANDING REVIEWS and it has TONS of media hype. Be reasonable, sales of this game so far have been extremely disappointing. Deep down in their hearts, every sony fan/employee knows it |
You can't change the market, and I do believe ND when they quote 2.5 Million WW because that is actually a sensible estimate to aim for unless you're just being unrealistic.
To sell more in the US this title would need higher PS3 penetration in the US, it's as simple as that, particularly with the demographic that currently favours 360 (which is of course the problem, a large chunk of the idea audience for this game in the US are already on another platform).
WW the PS3 install base might have grown 10M, but that's not the point: the US install base hasn't grown that much, and that's where the sales were weakest on a region per region basis and the focus of the NPD and Patcher.
As I said, no matter how good the reviews, etc. how many US 360 owners were seriosuly going to invest in this game (and a PS3)? Because it's clear from historic sales of comparable titles that the US PS3 install base and demographic isn't strong enough to deliver more sales than the game has seen in the region.
To reverse the scenario, look at sales of jRPGs on 360 in Japan where 360 simply doesn't have the install base vs PS3 for relatively weak titles - same problem, in fact worse for 360 as the ratio is even more against them there.
Uncharted 2 sales in US are technically dissappointing, but only in relation to 'what if' the market was different. In terms of the market that is there for PS3 they are actually high.
Of course you can say it's dissappointing, but you're evaluating against results that simply can't be achieved in the current market.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
