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Its a hit! 67 50.00%
 
Flop! 42 31.34%
 
Mega Flop! 24 17.91%
 
Total:133

I dunno about everyone else but I held off buying it because I was waiting for the PS4 version. Also the game is kinda hated by old Diablo fans



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I would say >500K on each console is a good result (without counting digital sales). Considering Diablo is a PC franchise and its console release was over a year after PC release, selling over 1 million on consoles has to be pleasing to Blizzard. Or if it isn't pleasing to Blizzard they set their expectations too high.



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No matter how many copies sold on PC or consoles nothing change the fact that it's garbage for a game that want to be called Diablo, in fact it's sacrilege to even call it that way, sacrilege for the original Diablo creators of Blizzard North & for the hardcore Diablo fans that grew up playing the 2 original Diablo games.

The only reason that sell so good was that the Blizzard of now took advantage of the popularity of the name & although the game was trash made mostly for WoW casual noobs most ppl didn't know that, they simply trust Blizz & Blizz betray their trust, it's the same thing with FFXIII that game also sold very good at least the first part but what happen with the 2 sequels? both flop so companies who expect to make fools of fans again & again they must be aware of that, they won't see those sales again this was the last time from now on they must do something very exceptional to draw back all the fans who lost their trust on them.



I'm actually surprised it sold a million on consoles to be honest.



 

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1m+ on a port of a game already widely available on the PC with crappy graphics and a bad reception sold at full pric e.
No, that wasnt a flop, it was a miracle.
The game isnt worth 60. Im waiting for the price to drop to the 15 range before i will bother.



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So how exactly can a console port of a PC game that's over a year old be considered a flop? Was anyone really expecting this game to do serious sales on either console?



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

Will be getting it on PS4 when it is released, thinking by the responses I have read a fair number of other people are as well.



KylieDog said:


Why? The PS4 version will be getting the expansion (included) and future support, the PS3/360 version will not get the expansion at all, or any support.

Are we certain about that? Blizzard/Activision might have a deal with Sony to only talk about the PS4 version.

We weren't even certain the 360 was getting a port of Diablo 3 early on, they only announced it for PS3 and PS4.



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Over 10 million gamer had already bought the PC version before the console version launched. Its a 2 year late port that manage to sell half a million in less than 6 month per console, its not great but I don't think blizzard view this as a flop, but rather a successful test-bed for future iteration of Diablo being available to console as well as PC in a similar time-frame. I am expecting Reaper of Souls on the PS4 a lot closer to the release date of the PC iteration, and I am seeing it selling a lot more because of the closer release date and positive word of mouth from PS3, 360 owners of Diablo 3.




won't call it a flop. With all the negative responses on the pc version i'm surprised that it sold a million copies.

Anyway i liked the game and i i will probably buy the next expension on ps4..