Ive seen many adverts for it here in Germany, but they were totally crap, but all my friends love it so far, i think it will benefit from very good word of mouth

given the reception killzone 2 got (many people thinking it was overhyped and not liking the controls) i guess it's not surprising.  after playing Killzone 3 though it difinately deserves so much more.

played it with move and at first found it awkward, being used to a controller but once i got used to it, it difinately felt better than Killzone 2 and any other shooter I have played to date.  I may still need to come of the thrill of playing but right now it is right up there with Uncharted 2 as being one of the best games I have ever played.

I think people forget the utterly massive hype train behind killzone 2. And then the controls turned people away. This will be the opposite. Worse opening, better legs. 3- 3.5 million WW.

Or it could be a total flop, who knows.

So this means Wii wins worldwide again this week?

That is an issue, yes, but I'm sure they could've figured something out.

Ultimately, the game was mishandled.  It was not given enough development time, and was released near too many other titles in one of the slowest seasons of the year.

I'm hoping the game will do better than I expect thanks to legs, but at this point I doubt the game will top 3 million.

Even a summer release probably would've been better, given that window still seems pretty quiet, and an axtra several months probably would've allowed GG to release a complete game, rather than one missing features AFTER getting huge post-launch patches.

But what i find interesting is, that its in the Top 10 of every amazon bestseller list, and the user reviews are very good 4 1/2-5 stars thats better than killzone 2 !

hopefully it has good legs and sell over 40k in japan

I doubt it's a Killzone issue though, look at LBP 2, i expected better numbers there too. I'm just not feeling so many sequals. I am craving something new already. I feel sorry for Uncharted, thank God it gets a november release.

LBP2 is showing better holds than LBP1 in UK now, if its the same worldwide then it can still sell as much hopefully.

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it does sound mismanaged. Maybe at some point SONY decided Resistance 3 gets priority?

just OK opening....

I was originally expecting it to do better than KZ2 but hey 500k isn't bad anyways so yeh.

i believe there is a reason that part of killzone 2 owner felt dissappointed thats why give up on this sequal, but the main reason is US this biggest region, i found that PS3 software sells at US is getting much lower recently, i think is because of the xbox360 userbase getting more and more hype ever since xbox360 slim and kinect launched, PS3 is just too difficult to get people's attention over there...