Yep, absolutely true, another example of what I'm talking about. The same is true of God of War, which has even lower sales than Metroid Prime despite being on a larger system.

Again, this isn't even totally about quality of games: both of those games got very good reviews, with Metroid Prime being put in the top 10 games in history by MetaCritic. It's about objective reality against what you personally prefer.

Do you love love love Metroid Prime? No problem! Just recognize that not everyone else does, as the sales verify.

Correction:

I had some bad data on GoW. Wiki was way off on its sales figures. The first game sold around 2.8m copies, about the same as the first DMC.

My point still holds true, though. It's not a huge system seller. You don't hear people talk up DMC the same way you do GoW even though the DMC series has been slightly more successful.

 There's actually a much better list of games to choose from than Devil May Cry. Here are some games that outsold God of War on the PS2:

1) Sonic Heroes

2) Ace Combat 04

3) Enter the Matrix

4) Spiderman 2: The Movie

5) Simpsons: Road Rage

6) True Crime: Streets of LA

That's just a sampling. These games all sold MORE than God of War. And don't get me started on God of War II: sufficed to say that 186 PS2 games sold better than it did. As Rocket Pig pointed out, we're not saying the game is bad or that you can't enjoy it, just be realistic about its selling power.  

I tend to look at everything as a whole. Even though I don't like the Grand Theft Auto games, I accept them as better games than other games that I enjoy more.

Do you know what game is really getting blown out of proportion?

KILLZONE 2

(just to go along with the god of war post)

I think almost every PS3 game is getting blown out of proportion...
I mean, Heav.Sword is almost like GoW with a female characters, in a console with about 30 times lees the userbase. Saying it is going to be huge is just ctazy. Ratchet n Clnak and Jak and Daxter are other examples. Those games have some fans, but their colorfuls characters and platformer style greatly appeal to more casual gamers. The only games I have to agree that are very important are FFXIII, MGS4 and GT. Maybe, Uncharted and LBP could be added to that list. I LOVE how LBP looks, and its options, but there is no way I could pay more than $300 for a console to play it.

What I like about 360 fans, like Mr.StickBall, is that they are optimistic but in a realistic way. They say games like Halo 3, GTA IV are gonna be huge ( for 360 mostly), despite liking them or not. Most Wii owners are a bit exagerated too, because some games have potential, but we know almost nothing about them ( Wii Health, Music, Mario & Sonic, Nintendo new IPs). I think we can agree that only few games have real impacts in sales.

It's a sad fact of life. I have here a quote from my official nintendo magazine from their spiderman 3 review giving the game 41% which i think sums this up nicely;

'For a title that is guranteed to sell hundreds of thousands, this is a shamble that all involved should be ashamed of. It stinks of a rushed job that's been bunged out to coincide with the film's release, though whether it could have been fixed with more time is debatable. Despite all its failings though, it'll fly straight to the top of the charts and make Activision very rich indeed. Disgraceful.'

F-ing Pokemon!