MOVE - 300,000 Units Sold in First Ten Days!

[Stefan.De.Machtige]

CGI-Quality said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

darthdevidem01 said:

CGI-Quality said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

A lot of hypocrisy in this thread.

When a big of even decent game of a franchise sells like this, its called a flop - Lets take Other M lately. Under 2 % of the PS3's base bought it. Fail.

 

Move is a new peripheral expected to start off slow, not a 20 year franchise the likes of Metroid. Hardly comparable.

This.

Not to mention NINTENDO expected Other M to sell much much more than Corruption......Other M will be selling less than Corruption in actuality.

I just used Other M as example, because i spend some threads discussing it with Khuutra - and therfore it popped up first in my memory. There are many other - newer, if you will -  games where a similar debut were deemed a flop. Hypocrisy! 

Move is just another peripheral, thats the excuse? Its supposed to be a new breath for the PS3 - an expansion of their audience. Sony dedicated a lot of time to it. In all its conferences of 2010 move was front and center. You couldn't miss it. Therefore, this is a bad start for the move. 

 

But you're missing the key piece here - it was never expected to start off high. It started off good enough though, which is what people are mainly commenting on. You're turning it into something it shouldn't be.

A month ago, Sony said it didn't expect massive sales. What's not massive? Its very subjective, like it was supposed to be - most likely because of the low pre-orders. The statement was pure PR. If it did high, then you act hardly surprised, and if it does low, then you say it did just under expectations. Standard PR-practice.

The following holiday season will show move's further strength or weakness. In any way, Sony compaign for the casual audience started off bad. Certainly for all the attention and money they gave it. Sony's lack of a statement about the debut sales says enough. If you can't say anything nice, then say nothing at all.

Again: for a huge 'first party' game, peripheral or whatever these are not good debut sales. Rather bad.