| HappySqurriel said: I don't really understand either ... Since the PS3 launched (pretty much) every game has sold far below these Sony fans' expectations, and most games have sold to a small fraction of the rate they sold on the PS2, and yet we see posts every day which expect upcomming games to outsell their PS2 counterparts.
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Are you aware that games don't stop selling after 6 months or something and that they keep selling, with lows and peeks, through out the gen's life span of roughly 6 years?
..and does it matter if a game sells 4million in it's life time or 4million in the first month? Sure the latter is desireable but to think a game that even sold 1million isn't a sucess is outstatndingly foolish.
I mean take a look at xbox exclusive titles, the only games to break the 2mill mark - apart from halo1&2- were PGR1 and Fable. Does it mean all the rest that sold less than that but more than 500,000 were failures or not great? No, ofcourse not.
MGS fanbase expect it to do well in it's initial release window, will it do as well as they hope? who knows but if you take a page from history and bear in mind the state of the industry today then it's not hard to see MGS4 surpassing 5million in it's life time, not at all.
People seem to want to see some sort of halo type madness for a game that'll move 5mill in 2hrs. but that's never what Sony games have done. Their's is always a steady pace and sell massively at the end of the gen. This type of halo thing is only seems great for the game not really the console.
Both halos went on a tear that saw more than half the total # of xbox install base purchase both title at roguhly 15mill (collectively) but the console it'self couldn't manage to get up to 25mill in total WW sales. It really doesn't matter if MGS4 sells 5mill in one day, what matters is that it sells as well or better than MGS1 or 2 and keeps selling with other great PS3 exclusive IPs, timed or otherwise.
