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jarrod on 11 January 2010
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CGI-Quality said:
jarrod said:
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.

Uncharted 2 has done more than it was expected to. Everything else is irrelevant. The game will do at least 4 million, 1.5 million more than it was expected to do. Like I said, what those other games did/didn't do is irrelevant, that was in a different time under COMPLETELY different circumstances. NONE of those franchises are a proven one like God of War is, so they're not comparable. Uncharted JUST became a proven franchise.

My point was very simple though, if Uncharted 2 can move hardware, then God of War III certainly will. I'm not sure why this seems to be shocking to people, we knew before the release of Uncharted 2 that GOWIII would probably move units. God of War III would have been a system seller before the $299 and Slimmer model. They're now just the icing on the cake.

Expected by who exactly?

And I disagree about "everything else is irrelevant" and also with your claim that the other games were "unproven".  Resistance 1 and Motorstorm 1 were HUGE sellers upfront, but their biennial sequels fizzled.  Uncharted 2 moved a sum total of 5k additional hardware worldwide it's launch week.  Sure, that's something, but not really something significant.  If anything, I would say that UC2 moved an insignificant amount of hardware.

I tend to think GOW3 will do much better, and March will be up a ton in March thanks to GT5 in Japan alone, but to be frank, I'm not basing any of that off UC2's middling performance.  It's not proof of anything really, expect that Sony can spend with the best of them.