I think the early leaked sales have made it pretty easy to determine whether LBP is success or failure..

The formula is :

if (LBP sales of week 1 are greater than LBP sales of week 0) than its a resounding success...

and

if (LBP sales of week 1 are lesser than LBP sales of week 0 ) then its not so much success..

Yes, in no way its a failure

rather i would like to add that week 0 has already proven that LBP is a very successful project for Sony as with a very small team and a totally new development studio they have created a reasonably good IP... it is going to be one of the most successful new IP for PS3...

I also think that week 0 sales are a good indication that it is going to be much more successful than Lair, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword and probably better than Uncharted... the current best new IP for PS3....

So definitely all credit goes to Media Molecule and some goes to Sony for putting effort and trust in them and properly sponsoring them...

and it should be appreciated too..

a lot of people are going to read this the wrong way....

I honestly think that it has to do at least 2x the sales of week 0 to be a huge success.....still 150k for a new IP is not too shabby.

That's good and all. So suddenly the expectation for LBP has gone from "OMG, IT's GONNA SELL 15 MILLIONS!" to "It'll do better than ummm... uncharted, maybe..."

Or people could just be patient and wait a few more weeks. Well at least the rational people will.

excuse the current best new IP is Motorstorm with 3.5 million.....then Rsistance with 3 million

unless you meant quality wise....

any sane and rational person is not going to bet 15 million on a new IP...

i think most ppl were expecting 2 - 3 million and anything over than is going to be simply amazing for it...

Even on TheSimexchange if u see the history it has traded below 4 million most of the time..

So don't try to pull numbers from the air...

i love how whenever a game comes out early or scattered ect. If your a fanboy of that system the week is considered WEEK 0. If you are a fanboy of the other system the week is considered WEEK 1.

Sorry my mistake...

So bar has got a bit higher for LBP...

But its week 0 numbers are still promising in my view to be successful..

I think Europe week1 numbers are going to be a lot better indicator... does it do 300+k or not.

The only SCE game i expect about 10 millions is Gran Turismo 5, however, if LBP passes my expectations (3 to 4 millions) i won't say "huge" i will say "COLOSSUS"