R&C Sales

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FishyJoe on 15 November 2007

Andir said:

FishyJoe said:
So the NPD October sales for R&C are said to be 74,500 units. This even shocks me and I expected the sales to be low. WTF happened? This is even worse than SMG bombing in Japan, since the USA should be R&C's best market.

I love that he posted this with his signature right below it:

Cherry picking is used metaphorically to indicate the act of pointing at individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position.

Cherry picking would be something like, PS3 software sales are a failure because R&C sold badly.

I'm not using this instance to prove any other position, other than R&C sales seem dismal. Which of course the evidence is showing.

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MontanaHatchet on 15 November 2007

As stupid as this sounds, Ratchet & Clank is almost at the total sales of several PS3 Summer releases such as Lair.

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Kasz216 on 15 November 2007

I'd guess The Ratchet and Clank demographic haven't bought PS3s yet.

It might do better in the next week of sales... but i mean, it's still on the shevles around here in pretty large numbers.

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HappySqurriel on 15 November 2007

Something I have said for awhile (and been bashed for many times) is that many people expect certain games to (really) push PS3 hardware because of their sales on the PS2, and that is unrealistic because many/most of the people who bought the game on the PS2 bought it because it was a good game on hardware they already owned. The problem is that the PS3 is still (outrageously) expensive to the average consumer and few/none of the games released todate are what you would call system sellers (even for a $200 system); there have been good games but they have been mostly new and unproven IPs in overcrowded genres.

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konnichiwa on 15 November 2007

Sigh here we go again.

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Parokki on 15 November 2007

Soriku said:
Erm... I want a link. Can't findthat page X_X

It's here.

The article's "Reception" section only mentioned the high reviews the game's been getting, while there was no mention of it's weak sales. I was going to say something on the discussion page, but then I saw Montana, and mom got really scared and said "You’re moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "fresh" and it had dice in the mirror, if anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought: "Man, forget it, yo home to Bel-air!" I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabbie "Yo homie, smell you later." I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-air.