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Blood_Tears on 25 March 2013
DirtyP2002 said:
Blood_Tears said:
DirtyP2002 said:
Blood_Tears said:
Nsanity said:
Blood_Tears said:
DirtyP2002 said:
3 times as much as God of War: A is very impressive!


How is 25% sales of it's predecessor in PAL impressive?

You mean the UK?


Regardless if the other article only shown the UK chart, the substance of that article still stated a "quarter". My point to DirtyP2002 still stands, much like the thread of your GoWA selling half in the UK. But thanks for the attention to detail..

Because it is a spin-off not made by Epic Games, not heavily marketed by Microsoft and did not release during the holiday season.
So anyone who expected Gears of War 3 like numbers was nuts.

And sill it outsold one of Sonys biggest franchises 3:1.

In the UK..


Yes, we are talking about the UK here.
It is funny that you point that out, since you was the one saying "But thanks for the attention to detail.." when you said PAL instead of UK.


Exactly what I was going for, a pun on the statement that was given to me. Glad you got it and it amused you. You may carry on now in your comparison of two games, which are similar in appreviations only and celebrate a 3:1 radio in a territory with a 3+ M hardware difference. All the while ignoring the fact of both series being down in sales and rationalizing it by marketing and lack of holidays...but yeah, impressive. Have a nice day.



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Nsanity on 25 March 2013
Blood_Tears said:
DirtyP2002 said:
Blood_Tears said:
Nsanity said:
Blood_Tears said:
DirtyP2002 said:
3 times as much as God of War: A is very impressive!


How is 25% sales of it's predecessor in PAL impressive?

You mean the UK?


Regardless if the other article only shown the UK chart, the substance of that article still stated a "quarter". My point to DirtyP2002 still stands, much like the thread of your GoWA selling half in the UK. But thanks for the attention to detail..

Because it is a spin-off not made by Epic Games, not heavily marketed by Microsoft and did not release during the holiday season.
So anyone who expected Gears of War 3 like numbers was nuts.

And sill it outsold one of Sonys biggest franchises 3:1.

In the UK..

Captain Obvious to the rescue.



Blood_Tears on 25 March 2013
Nsanity said:
Blood_Tears said:
DirtyP2002 said:
Blood_Tears said:
Nsanity said:
Blood_Tears said:
DirtyP2002 said:
3 times as much as God of War: A is very impressive!


How is 25% sales of it's predecessor in PAL impressive?

You mean the UK?


Regardless if the other article only shown the UK chart, the substance of that article still stated a "quarter". My point to DirtyP2002 still stands, much like the thread of your GoWA selling half in the UK. But thanks for the attention to detail..

Because it is a spin-off not made by Epic Games, not heavily marketed by Microsoft and did not release during the holiday season.
So anyone who expected Gears of War 3 like numbers was nuts.

And sill it outsold one of Sonys biggest franchises 3:1.

In the UK..

Captain Obvious to the rescue.

wow, that was lame..



Chandler on 25 March 2013

"Price promotions give a boost to ‘Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’ (+114%), up from No19 to No11"


Yep, bought it for 20€ from UK. Also finally got MGS4 for 12€. I really don't understand why people bother buying PS360 games at launch, they drop so fast.

 

Edit: No Vita games on the list, yikes.



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ethomaz on 25 March 2013
Chandler said:

"Price promotions give a boost to ‘Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’ (+114%), up from No19 to No11"


Yep, bought it for 20€ from UK. Also finally got MGS4 for 12€. I really don't understand why people bother buying PS360 games at launch, they drop so fast.

 

Edit: No Vita games on the list, yikes.

I will give you a example... I can't wait one more day to play BioShock Infinite... I will pay any price for that.



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DirtyP2002 on 25 March 2013
pezus said:
DirtyP2002 said:
Blood_Tears said:
Nsanity said:
Blood_Tears said:
DirtyP2002 said:
3 times as much as God of War: A is very impressive!


How is 25% sales of it's predecessor in PAL impressive?

You mean the UK?


Regardless if the other article only shown the UK chart, the substance of that article still stated a "quarter". My point to DirtyP2002 still stands, much like the thread of your GoWA selling half in the UK. But thanks for the attention to detail..

Because it is a spin-off not made by Epic Games, not heavily marketed by Microsoft and did not release during the holiday season.
So anyone who expected Gears of War 3 like numbers was nuts.

And sill it outsold one of Sonys biggest franchises 3:1.

I'm sorry, but GoW isn't even close to being one of Sony's biggest franchises in the UK


Feel free to name the Sony franchises you think are bigger than GoW in UK



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ethomaz on 25 March 2013

DirtyP2002 said:

Feel free to name the Sony franchises you think are bigger than GoW in UK

Gran Turismo
Uncharted
LittleBigPlanet
Killzone

In UK these games sells more than GoW games.

What is the point?



ethomaz on 25 March 2013
CGI-Quality said:

Forgive my ignorance, but hasn't Gears always outperformed God of War by a large amount here?

Yes... in UK the gap is even bigger lol.



Nsanity on 25 March 2013

This post from another forum pretty much sums it up:

"Gears 3 = 6 days of sales
  Gears J = 3 days

September release vs March release

10x less marketing, second team development. And even with 1/4 sales of Gears 3, Judgment took the 1 spot"



VGKing on 25 March 2013
Nsanity said:

This post from another forum pretty much sums it up:

"Gears 3 = 6 days of sales
  Gears J = 3 days

September release vs March release

10x less marketing, second team development. And even with 1/4 sales of Gears 3, Judgment took the 1 spot"

@bold
Can't the same be said for God of War 3 and Ascension?

Also didn't Gears 3 get a huge delay? So those pre-orders stacked up as there was already tons of marketing and promotional videos out there. The result of that was the not very sexy legs. The game was extremly front-loaded.