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MikeB on 22 March 2010
ProdigyBam said:
No, I dont believe that it sold less than Heavy Rain, thats just not possible..

Agreed, Heavy Rain is excellent. But that would be totally unexpected, the God of War series got so many well deserved Game-Of-The-Year awards.

Both games are for mature gamers.



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sully1311 on 22 March 2010

Why are people suprised Heavy Rain done more in the UK. It had a massive advertising campaign!



darthdevidem01 on 22 March 2010

Well no-one knows GOW3 is coming out in my school & no-one has even heard of God Of War

I'm a MASSIVE PS Fan but never played the GOW games last gen

the series isn't big in UK like ioi said

GOW3 sales are Fantastic for the series......it doesn't matter if it sold less than heavy rain

doing 2.65 times your predecessor is mind blowing!



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Kantor on 22 March 2010

About Heavy Rain and God of War III- from personal experience, the latter isn't overly popular here. The former...shockingly so.



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Reasonable on 22 March 2010
Kantor said:
About Heavy Rain and God of War III- from personal experience, the latter isn't overly popular here. The former...shockingly so.

What he said.  And as others have said, selling more than twice your predecessor is pretty good.  Seems the title is more popular this time around even with a smaller install base.

Speaking of such things, I wonder what chance has GoW3 has of outselling GoW2 on a region by region basis?



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Noobie on 22 March 2010
ioi said:
Well the last God of War did just over 30k week one (as anyone who can divide by 2.65 can tell) so the series has always been pretty small in the UK. In fact - the last 3 games have all sold more in France and Spain than the UK which is pretty rare.

so any early numbers on France n Spain for GOWIII? has it double or more than doubled its First week in these region also over its predecessor?



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GreenW on 22 March 2010
ioi said:
About doubled everwhere outside of the UK... ~400k week one in others.

pretty good..



enrageorange on 22 March 2010

the sales really are great for its genre in the region. People just expected too much, thinking that there was a ridiculous amount of people in Europe who pirated the first and second when in reality there wasn't.



ProdigyBam on 22 March 2010

Hmm i think it would be the same as in US because the two are often comparable in terms of games...
Here ion Germany hype is impressive and the game sold out everywhere and thats not often the case here
i had to go to 5 different stores..
but it was well worth it, really good game!



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mOeR-rpGee on 22 March 2010
enrageorange said:
the sales really are great for its genre in the region. People just expected too much, thinking that there was a ridiculous amount of people in Europe who pirated the first and second when in reality there wasn't.

wtf are you talking about? look at the predicition threads... almost 95% of the people underestimated its sales... saying it would do 800K-1mil in first week and 3-4 mil lifetime...

 

its looking to beat those so it is actually exceeding everyones expecations... the people who said it would less less than the first (going by the trend from 1st to 2nd) are going to be a little disapointend (or elated)