| CGI-Quality said:
Bottomline, it still moved hardware, and a significant amount (19-25%), which close to nobody expected. My point: if an up and coming IP can move hardware, a known, big one, with the same momentum still present can as well. Sure it's speculation, but hardly out of place. |
In fairness, the reason people didn't expect *anything* is because there'd been a long trend of mega-hyped 1st party product that'd failed to move significant hardware on PS3 (Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, Motorstorm 2, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, inFamous, etc). The real differentiating factor in UC2's case seems to be the $299 Slim,
And honestly, given the sorts of resources funneled into UC2, the sales aren't even impressive imo, certainly not significant. A 20k weekly bump, in just one region (sales actually dropped UC2 launch week in EU/JP by nearly 15k), that wasn't sustained, isn't really much to crow about when looking at the larger picture. It's actually pretty sad considering all UC2 had going for it.
