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BenVTrigger on 25 April 2011
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CGI-Quality said:
BenVTrigger said:



Got to be honest I don't see Uncharted 3 significantly outselling UC2.

Uncharted 2 had the perfect storm going for it of being a huge improvement over the original, massively positive reviews, and not near as much competition against established franchises as Uncharted 3 will face with Gears of War 3, Call of Duty, Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, and possibly a Halo game and Assassins Creed all releasing in a similar time frame.

That being said I do think Uncharted 3 will outsell 2, just not by a significant amount.

Gears 3, & Halo game, Assassin's Creed (3?), and Mass Effect 3 will hardly be any competition for Uncharted 3 (Gears 3 & any Halo game especially, because they're on the 360 only). Call of Duty (I'm thinking Modern warfare 3) & Skyrim may be some competition, because CoD is CoD and this is the newest Elder Scrolls in 5 (plus) years.

That said, none of those games will have any significant impact on Uncharted 3's final tally. The only real threat to it not topping (or just clearing) UC2 is the timing of release.

Sorry CGI but I just don't agree at all.

Games that sell more than 7 million copies DO impact games around them for sure.  Fact is people only have so much money to spend on games.  Call of Duty substantially effects sales its already been proven by everyone running away from it during its launch time frame.  Assassins Creed is a bigger franchise than Uncharted is and is also an adventure game which will affect its sales, Ubisoft already confirmed a new Creed for the 4th quarter.  Gears and Halo may be exclusives but there are litteraly millions of multi-console owners.  Franchises that huge will sway some console owners to pick up Uncharted later.  Elder Scrolls and Mass Effect may not be as massive as the others but are still VERY strong competition.

And again I'm counting out even MORE games like Batman Arkham City which again is an adventure game which will influence sales as well as huge games like Battlefield 3.  I've been saying it for a while now, Quarter 4 is too big period.  The gaming public just can't support that many huge scale franchises at once. Someone is going to be hurt in sales I can promise you that.