| J.a.M said: Gears 3 is the gonna front loaded as fuck thats about it.people going crazy over these numbers just means its gonna have shitty legs. its still gonna outsell everything except CoD and halo but dont get crazy folks. and infamous 2 will be alright, sony games have these things called legs. |
I don't understand why if a game has a big opening and then sells 4mil after its initial, its "legs" are considered worse than a game with a shitty opening that goes on to sell 1-3mil more after its initial weeks. "Legs" are simply how much a game sells after its initial week, or initial month, or longer, and sony exclusives still have nothing on halo 3's, halo reach's, and gears of war 1's legs, though with time gt5's "legs" will eventually pass gears 1. Still thats only 1 game.
Anyway great to see uncharted 3, and elder scrolls chart. Brink is also doing very well. I hope it ends up being a good game, because I am very interested in it from what I've read. Infamous 2 is not doing so well. Ofc its going to beat infamous's first week sales. It has built up a fanbase and the first game wasn't hyped at all. I really hope it sells well though because its my favorite sony exclusive ip this gen.
As for gears of war 3, its hard to assume much these preorders. I think it has next to no chance of opening higher than halo reach in America because gears 2 was an esablished franchise so its hard to believe gears 3's first week will magically be 2.5times as high as the second one's, though monster hunter 3 was able to do that in Japan so I guess it is possible. While its obvious the beta is greatly helping the preorders, they seem ridiculously high regardless. The comment that its because xbox 360 has no exclusives this year makes no sense, because if even half of the multiplatform games of 2011 live up to their hype, this will be the best year ever for multiplatforms. When people preorder a multiplatform, they don't think "O crap this isn't exclusive so it doesn't count. I need to preorder an exclusive." Anyway obviously amazing preorders but I feel like they are a bit deceiving of what the game will actually sell.
