| irstupid said: i never understand you guys and GOW3. seriously do you guys not know the previous sales of the god of war series. god of war 3 will be around 3 million at best, based on first 2 sales. it isn't goint to be pulling 5 million or 10 million + numbers. not sure what exclusives get for numbers, nintendo numbers screw me up so much, f*ing games getting 20 million is insane. but reading above seems like a couple have 5 million+ so no way is god of war touchign them |
I think you have to put those numbers into context. You are just looking at them out of context. GOW was a new IP that generation and it didn't come out until the console's 5th year. That is a long time into a consoles life cycle to be introduced to the user base. Also GOW II was released after the PS2 had started to decline and after the PS3 was already released. Just compare GOWII's sales figures to any PS2 game that came out around that time. GOWII kills them. Also you have to think about the reception that the GOW collection is getting on the PS3. It is selling pretty well for a remake collection. The reason why it was even released because they know a lot more people are interested in the GOW series than have actually played the first two.
GOWIII will sell very well. It has critical acclaim(winning many GOTY awards for both iterations), it has an established brand name now, it will have Sony's marketing behind it and it has the hype and momentum of the Playstation community, and it's target demographic is the same as many of the top selling HD console games(GTAIV, MW2, MGS4) unlike in 2007 when many of the PS2 sales had become for more casual/kiddy/immature gamers while it's core target market had already moved on to the 360/PS3 or was at least focused on moving to it rather than purchasing more PS2 games.
