What's up with Killzone 2's sales?

[Cypher1980]

makingmusic476 said:

Cypher1980 said:
It was a pretty, but standard FPS game.

I played it with my friend (PS3 owner). We both agreed it would be hard to make a more generic shooter.

The eye candy was really nice but IMHO it served as a necessary tech demo of what the PS3 was capable of and paved the way for later games which took advantage of the cell.

And that doesn't explain why other standard yet condiserably less pretty shooters are outselling it on a weekly basis, one of which is over 3 years old.

Remember that this topic is first and foremost about the game's sales, and not its quality.

Yeah that is a tough one to explain. Maybe its expectation weighed heavy on it.

Maybe people got to play a demo and thought the same as my friend and I.

Maybe people bought second hand. I bought my friends copy for him as a present for just 15 USD second hand.

These sales do not register.

Come to think of it that might be the main reason as there were several copies of KZ2 available second hand for the same price.