Amazon U.S. May bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[TheBlackNaruto]

Mazzy said:

RJ_Sizzle said:

Sorry bro, your crusade for UC4 to be a failure has come to an end. You stated yourself definitively that Sony's expectations for the game were high, and throwing around arbitrary numbers and citing non-sequitors such as delays, Gears of War and added staff as your only reasons. All without once citing an actual figure or goal as to what Sony's actual expectations for what figure they wanted the game to reach.

Judging from the tone of your posts, whatever number they  put out wouldn't have been enough. The game is your proverbial giant for this gen. Now hurry, eat your crow before it gets cold.

So you're just trolling. I showed factors that would have very significant effects on the budget, and you just casually dismiss the dev team and marketing budget swelling. I included the Gears of War to show how much the budgets of these games increase as they grow in popularity and the overall budget swells to match it. 

We won't know internal expectations because those are not publicly available. If we can't discuss how well a game did without knowing exact internal budgets and expectations, then there is no point even discussing any sales, because we don't ever get this information, aside from the rare PR that explicitly states a game exceeded expectations.

Not to keep this conversation going but from the increase it had in Japan, Spain, UK. Fastest selling 1st party excusive for them in PAL and NA...it just seems pretty logical to say the game exceeded or at the very least met expectations for 1st week sales....any other conclusion just doesn't make any sense what so ever...or seem logical at all.

But great sales for the game none the less. I want to see how it does for the entire month of May and what it ends up at lifetime. NOT you MAY be right there if it doesn't sell at least as mucha s UC3 if not more. But for sfirst week sales alone....yeah pretty safe to come to the conclusion that it at the very least met sales expectations if not surpassed them.