| Frank_kc said: I am sure that KZ2 is undertracked. VGchartz shows about 2.1 Million sales, however, the online shows over 2 million users registered online. So, it is impossible that KZ2 sold only 2.1 million. I will provide a snapshot of total users online tomorrow. |
Everybody that has ever rented the game, borrowed the game from a friend, or bought the game used and went online would be counted among those 2 million.
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As disappointing as the current numbers are, they don't seem very suspect. Do you have any reason to believe the game is undertracked aside from the word of a local retailer?
I could maybe see the game's Other Europe numbers being kinda low because from what I understand the original Killzone was like the best selling game ever in Poland when it was released or something, so it might be lowballed in territories where SCEE has a strong marketing presence but we have a low tracking presence, but that's about it.
To be honest, I was surprised how close our NA and EU numbers for Killzone 2 ended up being. Reports are the original Killzone sold under a million in NA (750k by our numbers) and over 2 million worldwide, which means sales heavily favored Europe (which makes sense given how much SCEE pushes the franchise vs SCEA - plus a game made by Europeans would likely be more appealing to Europeans), and I figured sales for the sequel would favor Europe all the more, given how the ps3's install base favors Europe far more than the ps2's install base did back in 2004.
