Degausser on 04 February 2011
Late ports never sell well, and the main reason is the lack of marketing. Sure enough, we all knew the day ME2 Ps3 was announced, we all knew it came out in Janauary etc. But Joe Average needs a tv advert or facebook advert or something to tell him this awesome games out and that he needs to buy it. The fact is most people don't even know Mass Effect 2 is on PS3, and any late port is going to suffer without any marketing push whatsoever.
It's strong reviews will grind it up to a good 800k or so, which is fine for a game which doesn't really cost EA anything and sets up ME3 for bigger sales. Any game released with next to no fanfare however is never going to set the sales charts alight, even if it's one of last years GOTY's.
