What i find funny is how people change the figures to suit certain games in terms of what they classify as "selling loads".
Some people have said selling 1m for this game = selling loads.
Surely all sales for video games have to be compared to each other?
Like for example some will say a RPG shouldnt sell that much as it is not a maintream shooter. But hang on the FF series, the Fallout series and so on and have sold many many millions, meaning RPGs have the potential to sell millions. Obviously shooters will sell millions.
Now this is an adventure game. A game that style has been done before, it is nothing new despite good old Jacks claims they are. But for sake of argument lets just leave it in the adventure genre.
So in comparison to other adventure games what would be considered selling loads?
Drakes Fortune sold millions, Lego Batman has sold millions, Heavenly sword sold millions, kung fu panda sold millions, marvel ultimate alliance sold millions etc etc
This game has taken ages to make, has spent a fortune on making it and has a big advertising campaign behind it.
To say this game has done well by getting to 1million in my opinion is a cop out. It should sell well beyond 2m in a year or it has bombed.
The reality is there are over 30m PS3's out there, if not even 1% wanted to play it then that says something about the appeal of the game to people. The fact that it is not popular doe not make it a bad game, it just makes it not a desired game.
Personally i think this game should sell around 500k in its first week at bare minimum or it has bombed.
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