As expected, the whole "People claiming 1-2 million week 1" argument is once again Crazzyman. In the 2nd link he provided Crazzyman was the only one with a ridiculous prediction.

As usual this week, 1 or sometimes 2-3 people = everyone.

Here is the breakdown.

Crazzyman expects 10M LTD.

Gearbox expects up to 20M LTD.

Now everyone expected 10-20M LTD.

Still with me? I thought so, I only mentioned 2 names.

Crazzyman expects 1M first week.

Gearbox expects god knows how much, lol.

Pick and choose maybe you can find another one somewhere.

Now everyone expected 1-2M first week.

Seems fair right?

@Captain Amazing

the Week 1 numbers on LBP's page are from the Week 18th Oct - 25th Oct....

now the game was "released" by gamespots earyl & walmarts apparently on 24th ...so it has 2 days of sales in that week.

then some stores released it on 27th Oct....n some on 29th Oct....

If you were a proper reader as you claim to be, you would be well informed of the fact that LBP was released a week early in America in some retail stores - that accounts for your sale figures of roughly 160k. If you go to Wikipedia for your facts then that alone would make alarm bells rell in most people's heads. The Week 1 sales of LBP in America will be known once the softwale sales for last week are posted. You add that number to week 0 sales and then you get week 1 sales. Not that hard to comprehend, is it?

Your argument is not based around facts, rather you use incorrect sources to try and win an argument when others have clearly proevn you wrong. Your ignorance astounds me. You are either incredibly stupid or a troll. I think it may be a bit of both, because a proper troll would atleast make an attempt to use correct data.

 LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!! I just got into an arguement with bitmap and squilliam about them generalizing. Then when I set bitmap up to see how he likes being generalized he ried telling me I was weasling out of the argument and trying to save face. But by the time a read it the thread died so I didnt rez it.

Heres the link if you want to read.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=46443&start=200

I find it funny how because crazzymann says something all ps3 fans think it.... I quess all wii fans expected the wii to get 60 mil consoles this year... they all fell soooo short. 

Now for my up and coming thread.

Fable II, Too Human, Possibly Gears of War 2, Banjo and Kazooie, etc... expectations (A little high, eh?)

We all know people expected 1.5M first day for Fable II, 2.5M first day for Gears 2, 1.5M first day for Banjo, 1M first day for Too Human. Did these games fail to meet expectations?

*Note -

These predictions were made by one person on VGChartz, for all purposes of this thread this one person shall account for all members of VGChartz.


That's fair right?

Hey I have a simple solution to this "problem". Let's just wait about one week, and then we'll have sales data from the first week in Europe, and from the two first weeks in NA+Jap. Simple no?

And @ Captain Amazing - I think you are mistaken as the "real" first week data for NA is not up yet.

>>>LBP was officially released in the uk here yesterday 5th NOV

Okami and SotC sold more than that.

American numbers are week 0, Japanese numbers are week 1.  The American numbers are not 26th-2nd, they are 19th-25th.

Yes of course it is hard to judge how long term sales of LBP will be. The user creation tools should keep the game alive for a long time though, and it will probably always be concidered as a "must-have" ps3 classic. LBP also seems like a game that could appeal to a more casual audience, customers that are likely to expand the ps3 userbase in the coming years.

And everyone, chill with the hate, the guy is new here and is trying to discuss something, ok so he's got the facts wrong but take it easy. I don't think hes just trying to annoy people.

Why do you keep comparing the two? The legs of a game DEPEND on the game. It doesnt matter how similar there numbers are right now that is no proof whatsoever.