inFamous Second Son at 1.5 million! People want a Sequel!

[Dadrik]

Teeqoz said:

Nem said:

That really doesnt mean anything. Castlevania Lords of shadow 2 had DLC and wasnt sucessful. Theres plenty of examples i'm sure.

Infamous 2nd son was a next-gen title that had very atractive graphics. I can only assume that for it to break even without DLC it would have to sell 2 or 3 millions. Since it didnt hit those numbers, i question if it was sucessful enough to warrant a sequal. 

Though its quite possible that Sony was willing to take losses on it to sell PS4's, Shu has admited that they dont make a profit on most titles. Anyways its my opinion, i can tell that this back and forth wont lead anywhere. :)

It's only been like 5 months, yet you say it will sell bad? It has almost already passed the sales of it's predeccesor, and in only a tenth of the time, fer cryin out loud! It'll be close to, and maybe pass, 2 million by the end of the year. Assuming Sony earns 30 dollars (which is low-balling as they are both the platform holder and the publisher) that means 60 million dollars earned. I'm pretty sure that covers the dev-cost of this game.

Also, 1.5M units sold (retail only, probably around 1.8M with digital) in 5 months on the current PS4 install base is not a bad thing at all.

That's 15% of the PS4 owners owning the game as well. So yeah, Second Son is doing pretty good, no matter what he says.