Uncharted 3 is a MAJOR flop, Americans, we need to talk about it.

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enrageorange on 05 November 2011

surprised only a few people took the bait.

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Moren on 05 November 2011

enrageorange said:
surprised only a few people took the bait.

Edit: nevermind, let's just wait.

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morenoingrato said:

Hey guys,

I thought we need to talk about this:

The sequel to the very successful Uncharted 2: Among Thieves named Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception sold a disastrous 550k FW in America, only a terrible 30% rise from the prequel. Many analysts are already very worried about the situation.

You may wonder how this is bad, well, many well known analysts predicted over 1M for Uncharted 3 in Americas alone, even if some of them were more rational, the sales are still dissapointing considering Uncharted 2 had a HUGE boost from preorders to FW, and that is what matters, right?

In my opinion, it is because of the game's mixed to negative reception, lack of realism, a lot of major complains from various users around the world.

Also, the fact that according to many, Uncharted 3 got overshadowed by the much better Arkham City, a game that by comparisson, sold triple of Uncharted 3's First week.

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Nice troll article. Sales...huh? single predetermining factor here according to the OP. EPIC FAIL.

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Shinobi-san on 05 November 2011

I guess the preorders was a bit misleading and led to some of the high expectations of the Vgchartz community. But its a significant improvement over U2 so it cant be called a flop and in no ways can you call it a MAJOR flop. I also dont see how you came to the conclusion its a major flop? A bit of a flamebait title imo.

Edit: oh wait

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osamanobama on 05 November 2011

morenoingrato said:

Hey guys,

I thought we need to talk about this:

The sequel to the very successful Uncharted 2: Among Thieves named Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception sold a disastrous 550k FW in America, only a terrible 30% rise from the prequel. Many analysts are already very worried about the situation.

You may wonder how this is bad, well, many well known analysts predicted over 1M for Uncharted 3 in Americas alone, even if some of them were more rational, the sales are still dissapointing considering Uncharted 2 had a HUGE boost from preorders to FW, and that is what matters, right?

In my opinion, it is because of the game's mixed to negative reception, lack of realism, a lot of major complains from various users around the world.

Also, the fact that according to many, Uncharted 3 got overshadowed by the much better Arkham City, a game that by comparisson, sold triple of Uncharted 3's First week.

Source

just one question, where did you get that 550k number from?

im hoping its closer to 750k

edit: nevermind, i hope those numbers are wrong because that would only be about 100k more than pre orders.