250,000 might allow Insomniac to break even. Maybe. I highly doubt Insomniac makes a game hoping to break even.

Definitely disappointing, but worse than SMG in Japan? no.

The biggest Nintendo franchise in history bombing on the hottest system in its homeland versus decently big franchise bombing on 3rd place console with software selling problems, which one is more shocking?

Anyway I don't care since both games turned out even better than I expected despite the unrealistic expectations I had for them and ended up the two best games on each of their consoles respectively.

So basically what I'm saying is those who didn't buy either are missing out. They can buy a million Mario Parties and Maddens, I'll be playin' Galaxy and Ratchet :)

Maybe those poor sales are not that suprising.
I know some ppl won't agree but when you look at R&C design, it's very cute, very childish. It doesn't mean the game IS, but still, I'm pretty convinced that a large part of R&C players are young. And right now, giving the console price, I don't think lots of young players have access to the PS3.
However, given the recent price cut, this will change in time. I think R&C may perform well during Xmas and have better legs than usual games.

I dropped my standards on the PS3 a lot, so to me, the sales seem pretty damn good.

Or that R&C is doomed because it had a bad first week.

I don't think it's considered cherry picking when 90% of the time that turns out to true.  Which... if a game sells poorly it's first week, it more likely then not is going to bomb.

Wii and PS3 games don't work like 360 games, meaning that they arn't front loaded. All of the High selling PS3 games are high selling because of their legs. Resistance and Motorstorm didn't come out and sell 300K week one. Things just don't work that way; I don't know what made people think that Ratchet would. Right now―if you include Japan, of course―Rathcet is at 200K. For the time it's been out, that's pretty good. Furthermore, we still don't have the numbers for others, so calling it a flop in terms of sales is a bit premature. The game could easily pass the 1-millon-millon-sold mark before years end. One thing is certain, though: Ratchet will sell 400k in the US easily.

ratchet will get bundled, so it's guaranteed to sell lots and lots.

what about Japan? the first R&C sold 500k in Japan, the rest of the ps2 ratchet games all went on to sell at least 220k.

now we got the PS3 version doing 11k first week.