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wholikeswood on 13 January 2010
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Maynard_Tool said:

Unfortunately, the only time that I saw something like that was when the game launched, and that sony said that it didn't performed as planned b/c of the holiday rush. They said it had respectable [launch] numbers, but they wanted higher numbers. Yes, this was back at 2008.

But if they were expecting sackboy to be their mascot... and the game has sold 3 million... i think it falls short of what the representative game for something like Sony should be. I think they are great sales for a new IP and everything... not for a game that Sony wanted to be the representative game of their console.

 

EDIT: Here's the link of what I was talking about. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008/11/sony-holiday-rush-to-blame-for-lbp-sales.ars

Since I never saw a number, I don't bother to look, it's not my job. Sorry if my words offend people. They take all of these too serious. I don't =)

In that link they're talking about launch sales, but in this thread we're talking about LTD sales. 3 million in 14months for a new IP and platformer is very impressive.

And I know that mascot status confers big sales, but at the same time it hasn't stopped selling, and Playstation has always been a very diverse platform anyway (you can represent the Xbox family with Master Chief, for example, but the Playstation platforms haven't really had a mascot since perhaps Crash or Spyro on the PS1 in the 90s). Moreover, suggesting that Sackboy could be a mascot seemed from the beginning to me to be PR talk in order to hype the title.

But meh, I appreciate that you consider these good sales. Ultimately, I'm just pleased that it's done well.