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Hyruken on 03 January 2010
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CGI-Quality said:
Hyruken said:
You see this is what i love about VGChartz. People try and pass off opinion as fact while trying to hide their obvious fanboy beliefs.

For example take God of War 3. People are arguing how succesful the game will be. Many saying it is a big franchise and sells consoles etc.. But let's look at the series sales.

God of War - Lifetime sales = 3.2m. First week sales = 172k.

God of War 3 - Lifetime sales = 2.5m. First week sales = 550k.

Those games had almost 120m PS2's to sell to worldwide and the series in almost 8 years has sold 5.7m units.

Now i'm no genius but in terms of game sales that is not so good. The fact the 2nd game sold less then the 1st does not look so good as it means popularit decreased for the series.

God of War 3 will not be a massive system seller based on it's previous records.

To put the sales in some kind of context. Halo ODST is on course to beat BOTH God of War games totals COMBINED, on a system with less consoles in the wild then the PS2 and with only a few months on release.

Now i hate Halo, but it shows how insignificant God of War franchise is when you talk about sales and more importantly talk about franchises.

God of War 3 will have zero effect on ps3 sales just as the last 2 had no effect on the ps2. I have no doubt it will be just another game to add to the list of games which did not sell as much as they probably deserved to ala Killzone 2 etc..

Lol.....I'm sure many will hold you to that, as you will likely be proven wrong. Wasn't this same thing said of Uncharted 2? Yea, we saw how that turned out.

Also, who posted an opinion as a fact? You talk about "fanboys" then, ironically, have a very one-sided viewpoint. And why bring up an argument that's dead and STILL off topic?

Think you missed the point of what i was saying, how unusual....

The point was a lot of people in this thread say the reason the PS3 will finish 2nd is because of the games it has. Which is totally valid. But one of the games they example is God of War saying it is a big franchise etc.. When it's sales clearly show it is not. It is a franchise that has never sold even close to a million units in it's first week. So what i was saying is that if the previous trend of the last 2's sales follow into the 3rds sales then it will have zero effect on where the PS3 ends up, because the sales spike will be very little. And you can quote me on that. God Of War 3 will not sell 1m in it's 1st day and most likely not in it's 1st week. To take what i said literally is just petty. Because obviously at least 1 person is going to buy a console to play the game...

So think about it from a sales non-biased perspective. Using the data that we have on the previous titles would you say that it is likely to sell a lot of consoles?

To think it will is an assumption. One that as others have pointed out share very similar assumptions to other titles. Which didn't quite turn out as expected. Where as what i'm saying is based on it's previous versions sales data.

While were talking CGI, time to admit you were wrong. You were out by well over a million units on our bet. Lucky you did not bet any money on it :)

Also what i said in my earlier post is already coming true. If you look at this weeks numbers that have just been posted your notice the difference is Japan. The Japanese numbers are what are keeping PS3 above 360 by the big numbers. Soon as the Final Fantasy effect has died in Japan in the next few weeks the numbers will fall back into a normal pattern. When all regions reach that level the gap weekly between the PS3 and 360 will be very close. Soon as that happen's in my "assumption" that is when this gen is over.