| sales2099 said: Its worth noting that Sony has bundled Uncharted 3 this holiday "Forza Motorsport" style. However MS likes to see their exclusive sell on its own for the holidays and then bundles it later. Sony it seems, bundled their biggest game of the year from day 1. While many like to say its just Sony being good to its consumers with a great bundle, it seems that Sony is trying to inflate the sales of the series off the bat, not confident in its ability to sell well on its own out the gate. AAA games are meant to be system sellers without being bundled.....right away......hence the term system seller. A great milestone, not impressive compared to Halo or anything, but Sony has the beginnings of having one mascot based exclusive that actually delivers on 5 million sales per game. Too many Sony Ips are doomed to a 1-2 million lifetime sales performance. |
God you really are a funny guy. Uncharted 3 has only 1 bundle and according to you it's bundled "Forza Motorsport" style. The Gears of War series, Halo series, Forza series, Fable series are all bundled for a limited time and same with AAA PS3 games. The only game even close to being bundled 360 style is Little Big Planet. Halo Reach has had bundles from day one and is being bundled even more heavily week after week. And no it is not a holiday bundle. It's been bundled with Fable 3 for a while now. Fable 3 practially got 80-90% of its sales this year from the bundles in North America. It wouldn't be anywhere close to big PS3 exclusives such as God of War 3, or Uncharted 3 series without those massive bundles. On top of that it needs to be adjusted down when in comparison with NPD at least for the U.S sales. So if a retailer bundles Gears of War games and Halo games massively which Microsoft is currently doing does that mean they are not big franchises? Does it mean that they can't sell well? The same thing goes to big Sony Ip's such as Uncharted, God of War and GT. I really don't think you should be talking about (how much bundles sold) when it comes to Microsoft as they have prooved to heavily bundle games more so in this generation so it doesn't look like the predeccessor hasn't surpassed the sequel. Which is exactly what happened with games like Halo Reach, Forza Motorsport 4, Fable 3, Forza MotorSport 3 and even Halo Anniversary and a few PS3 exlcuisves to such as LBP 2 e.t.c.
