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When will you people learn? If you put faith (i.e. realistic expectations) in Sony, then you WILL be dissapointed. If BHR can accept this, then everyone should.

I think my original prediction of 5 million is still pretty accurate.



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ohh stop this!

uncharted 3 is most likely undertracked and the 2nd week sales is still higher then uncharted 2 *sigh*



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we'll know for sure when Nov. NPD drops in mid Dec. or if sony announce that they need to ship more on top of the 3.8M

 

i personally feel that it is undertracked but to a degree that it wont really matter (few 100k) when/if corrected

 

either way i feel that the game series is a disappointment after DF mainly b/c of the gameplay switch and UC3 will most likely not achieve the sales that i and others boasted about here on VGC earlier.   tbh i knew it do about 3.5 by years end way before most the 4M thread was made on UC2s thread anniversary and decided to double the amount from the epic 2M thread also made by me, b/c 3.5M is kinda cheap to say and wanted to go with a solid number with no decimal point, so it was going to be either 3 or 4M so i decided to take a leap a faith and go with 4M

 

i feel that instead of targeting UC soley we need to target SONY exclusives altogether this gen, they are to me a disappointment that "needs to be talked about" alot of the exclusives failed to meet sales and score expectations as well as user expectations ie. KZ, GT5, Resistance, Socom  ect.  and alot never even made to release getaway, 8 days and ubisofts exclusive

 

I fully agree about the Sony exclusives not meeting expectations argument, however i think its safe to say that Uncharted is the exception to that. U3 will cross 5 million LT thats for sure, and in doing so meet or exceed U2 sales, which is a success in my opinion. Perhaps not the growth some of use here wanted to see...but a success none the less.

I look at all the other exclusives of Sony: Motorstorm, Little Big planet, Killzone, Resistance, etc. the design decisions made for those games were a bit off. They lack accessibility. Motorstorm was unique. Little Big Planet platforming feels floaty, and concentrates more on designing stages (not something most people like to do), killzone 2's laggy controls really dented the prospects of the franchise, and Resistance is another unique game. All of those franchises have a shrinking fan base.

But i think Uncharted and God of war 3 (an already established franchise) got it right this gen. God of war 3 was never gonna sell too much, and Uncharted is already a success with a solid fanbase. To be honest uncharted is looking like the only new franchise Sony can take into the next gen.

Gran turismo is a whole other story on its own

I also think we jumping the gun on Uncharted 3 sales performance, this is only second week prelimenary data afterall, and its facing some heavy competition.


agreed bout GOW and UC, UC is really the break out of this gens PS exclusives, no one was expecting it to be what it is now when DF released and even prior

GOW is a continuation from last gen though and while impressed with its performance other than UC and even heavy rain there hasnt been any new "things", or more importantly things that can compete and/or offer what sony biggest competition MS has offered this gen, at least by my personal tastes

LOL your tastes surely have changed alright :D but I disagree whole heartedly, infact I would go onto say Sony first party has offered games that provides experiences not found on MS...but hey isn't that what exclusive games suppose to do? I rather not get into a list war here since that will drag on, but I agree with you that it most definitely is due to the change of your 'tastes' and is nothing more than objective opinion, same as mine



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thats b/c i was SONY ONLY remember?

i believe that if your a single console owner then you are more prone to have bias type posts

agreed bout sony exclusives offering different type of experience than the other with games like UC, LPB, motostrom and heavyrain but there also lacking features (some which i dont care for but are important to the gaming world) like full camping co-op local and online. if you look at some of the big games from MS like halo and gears there features are unmatched.

i dont think that the sony exclusives are bad games but like you said its all about personal tastes and X-box games this gen seem to deliver on those tastes for me, games like gears alanwake l4d they all seem to have that dark seriousness tone that i strive for and are heavy gunplay oriented, i also turn to forza for my racing sim this gen as its the only one that includes the western vehicles that i personally own and others i like, as well as others that were big in my era



                                                             

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ps3 games do have local co-op :S what are you talking about?

but for the rest of it, like I said before it's all personal preference. I prefer UC, inFamous, GOW etc over Halo, Gears, Fable. They give me those wide variety of experiences I want from exclusive games, don't care much about FPS because we get so many third party offerings in that genre already and some very high quality. But then again I absolutely LOVE KZ MP. I hope GG makes a whole new universe and improve on things they are already doing, next gen.

 

oh and just for clarification, I have access to both 360/wii as well (have played all main Halos gears SMG Dance Central etc)



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If by end of the year the shipment isnt 4.2m+ that will mean that the game was overshipped otherwise will mean it atleast sold 3.8m.



let me just say undertracked.
thats half the sales of Uncharted 2's second week



They'll just bundle the crap out of this game anyways.



BF3 has good legs, but do not expect it to be outselling MW3 on a weekly basis any time soon, its the Holidays...



Its almost as if the fastest selling game of all time and the fastest selling WRPG of all time released this week. Weird.



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