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mantlepiecek on 03 October 2012
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pezus said:
mantlepiecek said:
pezus said:
mantlepiecek said:
The biggest difference between demon's souls and dark souls is that demon's souls was a new IP. and dark souls is a sequel. you can't compare the two.

Sequels sell faster than new IPs do.

LBP2, Crackdown 2

LBP proves my point though, doesn't it? LBP first year, 1.8 million, LBP 2 first year >2 million.

Although LBP 2 was released during Jan I believe.

 

Still, LBP was bundled a lot, and has performed consistently.

Crackdown on the other hand was a launch title, it was bound to do better. Similar to resistance.

 

Take the example of similar games : Gears of war, gears of war 2, uncharted, uncharted 2, etc etc.

Assassin's Creed, Call of duty, all sequels sell faster than before but the LTD sales are similar.


I don't know what numbers you're looking at, but here:

http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/game_comparison.php?reg=Global&ending=Cumulative&game%5B%5D=LittleBigPlanet+2+%28PS3%29+%5B43908%5D&game%5B%5D=LittleBigPlanet+%28PS3%29+%5B12390%5D&game%5B%5D=&game%5B%5D=

I do agree that most sequels sell faster than new IPs, but with that in mind what does it change? The PS3 version alone is significantly ahead of Demon's Souls for the same timeframe with a holiday season to boost sales further coming up. Then you add in the 360 and PC version which are mostly pure profit. I can't see how being PS3 only would have been better.

Being PS3 only may not be better but there is no doubt demon's souls will be doing similar nos to dark souls at the end of the day.

Including all three versions. Of course, steam sales and all that, I am not sure how many units they will sell.

Still, demon's souls this year : 150000, dark souls PS3 : 200000, dark souls 360 150000.

As you can see, legs. Although they were stronger before the release of dark souls.

The argument that since Dark Souls has sold more in the same timeframe, means that it will sell at the same rate in future is invalid. Look at LBP 2 for instance. Sold well for the first few weeks, better than LBP.

Look at any major new IP as well.