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XxXProphecyXxX said:

What? KZ3 is having better legs than 2 ever did......

And just because this game don't sell 10m or something like Gran turismo/COD games doesn't mean its "not selling well"

Tell me HOW MANY 360 exclusive even manage to sell 10m besides halos?  NADA! exactly so does that mean the rest of the 360 exclusive sold like crap?


I don't expect GT and Halo sales but at least God of war sales. Despite all the critical aclaim Killzone 2 got.



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1.33M after 2 months is bad? okay then..



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BenVTrigger said:
dsage01 said:
Michael-5 said:

Killzone 3 is selling well for a PS3 exclusive. If you're asking why Killzone 3 sales aren't as strong as Halo, Call of Duty, or Gears of War it's because it doesn't have as strong of a multiplayer component. Multiplayer is fun, but there is nothing really bringing you back into the game. Resident Evil 5 sold well despite having poor multiplayer because of the strong label Resident Evil 4 laid. Also Killzone doesn't have as epic of a story arc as other Sci-Fi shooters like Halo, Gears of War, or Resident Evil. The events in Killzone 3 are much more loosly tied to the events in other Killzones compared to the other mentioned sci fi shooters. So..

1. Not as addicitve multiplayer as compeditors

2. Not the king of multiplayer games, so it's forgotten quickly since everyone else is playing Call of Duty.

3. Not so massive story arc.

Just to let you know Killzone has great multiplayer. Many people are on (possibly more than Reach as of today) And Gears 2 multiplayer was pretty bad it had many bugs and people complaining. For the Cod and Halo part I agree with you but come on we both know it deserves much more sales than the 1.4 million right now.

DId you really just try to say that there are more people currently playing Killzone 3 than Halo Reach?  Here's a stat for you real quick.  Since KZ3's launch it has had 2,231,404 games played.

Just today alone Halo Reach had 2 million matches.  In other words in one day Halo Reach has had nearly as many player matches as Killzone has had since the day it launched.  The size of their communities and following isn't even remotley close.  The only franchise in the world that can hang with Halo in terms of FPS fanbase is Call of Duty.

That being said Killzone 3 is phenominal and easily deserves 5 million sales but unfortunatley won't get close to that at all.   I've been saying for a while Im worried about PS3 exclusive sales this year, both Killzone 3 and LittleBigPlanet 2 have had very slow starts and with the number of exlusive PS3 games plus all the excellent third party games this year sales are being cannobilzed.

I'm pretty sure it's 2.24 million in 24 hours. I checked on Gurila games. But for some reason I can't find anyone anymore on Halo Reach.

Edit: People playing campain on Reach are counted towards playing online. If you connected to xbox live. The true total is 32,000 right now not including campaign.



Wow, so much hate for kz2. Do many of you realize it has a higher score than kz3 on most sites? Do many of you know that  a significant percentage of kz2 fans don't like kz3?

I can understand your dislike for kz2...it's a pretty hard game to learn but if you did endure the learning curve, you appreciate it as the most unique FPS to hit consoles this gen. There's a reason some of us can't let go. While KZ3 may look fresh and shiny, it's actually a huge downgrade to kz2 when you look in depth.

For starters, the best feature of kz2's MP is absent from kz3 i.e custom servers and server lists. While kz2 may no have many game modes, you can play the game however you want thanks to this. Bodycount did not need its own mode with less maps if you could simply create it yourself. Even operations is just CnH and SnD with boring cutscenes tacked on. Rifles only? You got it. Pistol only? You got it. Forum game? you got it. Sniper only? you got it. This increases a game's staying power on a ridiculous level. I know lots who got kz3 and have since returned to the gem caled kz2. If anyone knows of another fps on consoles this gen that has this feature, pls let me know cos this makes kz2 the best fps MP this gen IMHO. WHo would've though a JRPG fan like myself could spend 92 days playing an FPS nline?

I could go on and on with the other ridiculous downgrades but I'll stop at the most obvious and indsputable one and what untimatley made me skip kz3. I'm willing to bet that by the end of this year, kz2 will have more people still playing online than kz3.



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Pristine20 said:

Wow, so much hate for kz2. Do many of you realize it has a higher score than kz3 on most sites? Do many of you know that  a significant percentage of kz2 fans don't like kz3?

I can understand your dislike for kz2...it's a pretty hard game to learn but if you did endure the learning curve, you appreciate it as the most unique FPS to hit consoles this gen. There's a reason some of us can't let go. While KZ3 may look fresh and shiny, it's actually a huge downgrade to kz2 when you look in depth.

For starters, the best feature of kz2's MP is absent from kz3 i.e custom servers and server lists. While kz2 may no have many game modes, you can play the game however you want thanks to this. Bodycount did not need its own mode with less maps if you could simply create it yourself. Even operations is just CnH and SnD with boring cutscenes tacked on. Rifles only? You got it. Pistol only? You got it. Forum game? you got it. Sniper only? you got it. This increases a game's staying power on a ridiculous level. I know lots who got kz3 and have since returned to the gem caled kz2. If anyone knows of another fps on consoles this gen that has this feature, pls let me know cos this makes kz2 the best fps MP this gen IMHO. WHo would've though a JRPG fan like myself could spend 92 days playing an FPS nline?

I could go on and on with the other ridiculous downgrades but I'll stop at the most obvious and indsputable one and what untimatley made me skip kz3. I'm willing to bet that by the end of this year, kz2 will have more people still playing online than kz3.


Killzone 2 was buggy and slow. Glad you like the game but most of us think that almost everything is better about Killzone 3.



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dsage01 said:
XxXProphecyXxX said:

What? KZ3 is having better legs than 2 ever did......

And just because this game don't sell 10m or something like Gran turismo/COD games doesn't mean its "not selling well"

Tell me HOW MANY 360 exclusive even manage to sell 10m besides halos?  NADA! exactly so does that mean the rest of the 360 exclusive sold like crap?


I don't expect GT and Halo sales but at least God of war sales. Despite all the critical aclaim Killzone 2 got.


Theres nothing much you can do about it most games that sell like god of war and such are well established franchises and ppl buy them mindlessly it doesn't matter if its garbage or not it will sell soley cause its 'CALL OF DUTY' or GRAND THEFT AUTO,I mean look @ Mass effect 2 sitting at 96 on metacritic yet it sold LOWER than KZ2......

some game just arnt as popular as the other but that doesn't mean they didn't sell well.



dsage01 said:
Pristine20 said:

Wow, so much hate for kz2. Do many of you realize it has a higher score than kz3 on most sites? Do many of you know that  a significant percentage of kz2 fans don't like kz3?

I can understand your dislike for kz2...it's a pretty hard game to learn but if you did endure the learning curve, you appreciate it as the most unique FPS to hit consoles this gen. There's a reason some of us can't let go. While KZ3 may look fresh and shiny, it's actually a huge downgrade to kz2 when you look in depth.

For starters, the best feature of kz2's MP is absent from kz3 i.e custom servers and server lists. While kz2 may no have many game modes, you can play the game however you want thanks to this. Bodycount did not need its own mode with less maps if you could simply create it yourself. Even operations is just CnH and SnD with boring cutscenes tacked on. Rifles only? You got it. Pistol only? You got it. Forum game? you got it. Sniper only? you got it. This increases a game's staying power on a ridiculous level. I know lots who got kz3 and have since returned to the gem caled kz2. If anyone knows of another fps on consoles this gen that has this feature, pls let me know cos this makes kz2 the best fps MP this gen IMHO. WHo would've though a JRPG fan like myself could spend 92 days playing an FPS nline?

I could go on and on with the other ridiculous downgrades but I'll stop at the most obvious and indsputable one and what untimatley made me skip kz3. I'm willing to bet that by the end of this year, kz2 will have more people still playing online than kz3.


Killzone 2 was buggy and slow. Glad you like the game but most of us think that almost everything is better about Killzone 3.

Last I checked KZ3 has its bugs as well and its just as slow. Who  is "us" exactly because the people I know prefer kz2 and while some still play kz3 regardless, they agree that kz2 is better. KZ3 is just fresher ATM. It's time that will tell. As bad as KZ2 suppsedly is, its MP is still alive and kicking after 2 huge COD releases. I have to say though that most people who hate kz2 just really sucked which is fair enough. I sucked too at the start like everyone else but it was too sweet to stop playing.

KZ3 has no custom servers, very mediocre stat tracking, no battle replays (people were even expecting a cinema like Blops and Halo). These are very basic fetaures of kz2 that the devs axed for no reason...perhaps because they were too busy suporting move and 3D that they forgot the basics.



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It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

my guess is, halo is much more mainstream than killzone.  really only hardcore fans are buying killzone whereas more casual gamers are buying halo.



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It's not sold that badly, especially considerring it's relatively packed release schedule. When Killzone 2 was released it didn't have much in the way of competition. Killzone 3 on the other hand has direct competition from Crysis 2 and a range of titles from a variety of genres.

I for one have held off on purchasing Killzone 3 as I bought Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2.



the most reason is because it's not a Xbox360 game, FPS game really sell much better on Xbox360 platform, especially in US...