This makes me sad, but I kinda expected it. It also happened with EVERY Sony game this year. Strong FW (sometimes even weaker than the predecessor), but then weaker legs. I honestly don't see Uncharted 3 outselling UC2 lifetime :(

I wonder why Microsoft's exclusives manage to sell more and more with every sequel and Sony's don't. In terms of quality we should agree, if you just look at metascores (the easiest way to compare them), they're at least equal. (I like Sony's better, but that's of course my subjective opinion).

*facepalm*

remember the last uncharted 3 is a flop thread? didn't go to well

I never said it was a flop. It's a sequel to a highly acclaimed game which gets inferior sales than it deserves. Compare it to Gears of War.
Gears 1: 1m FW
Gears 2: 2m FW
Gears 3: 3m FW

Why can't Uncharted do like that? I'm just wondering.

uncharted 3 shipped 3.8m first week and sold around 1.3m fw so it beat gears 1 if it's undertracked like i think it is it will beat gears 2 plus uncharted has far far better legs then gears of war

How does those games being multiplatform and "old" IPs change my arguement in any way? I'm saying that people will rather buy Skyrim or Modern Warfare over Uncharted 3. Uncharted 3 is a smaller franchise than those two, no matter how you look at it.

You really can't tell a pattern from TWO games, there is no pattern yet. I have no doubts that Uncharted 3 will sell more than Uncharted 2, but saying that "uncharted keeps selling more and more each installment" when you are only basing this on Uncharted 2 selling more than Drake's Fortune, is stupid. And there is more content, you can't deny that. You get more bang for your buck by buying Skyrim than Uncharted 3. Gamers do choose between games, them being apples and oranges doesn't matter mean that the apple crowd will only buy apples and the orange crowd will only buy oranges.

I'm starting to get tired of people saying "Uncharted sales more and more with every iteration!" It's only been two games with one week's worth of data for the third. Such a statement should stop being thrown around so lightly.

BTW, some of you people should learn about punctuation usage and capital letters.

I think that all this big games UC3 B3 Batman MW3 and Skyrim are doing great in pre orders and first weeks but will sell less constant life time. We are at sales peak of this generation consoles and we now know what games we like or not so we pre order it and we enjoy them from day 1.

Increasingly less people are going to be invite to buy this generation consoles.

Big first week = lots of people owning the system already

lots of people owning the system= lots of people buy at day 1

true but the holidays are coming but instead of those games benefiting it will likley be games on the Wii, DS and MW3 that will most benefit.

Bingo

thats your opinion one which i happen to disagree with, there are no online modes in skyrim and no split screen if that isn't your thing well thats awesome but that doesn't mean its the same for others

the same goes for your comment on CoD i happen to like the gameplay mechanics in uc more than CoD and its also possible that others feel the same, but the way you're speaking its as if all or the vast majority of people should fall into your expectations in terms of tastes in games, however, the world doesn't work like that