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Tbone on 08 November 2008

Think its good, interesting too see if i has good legs.



 

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FinalEvangelion on 08 November 2008
Final-Fan said:
BringBackChrono said:
The game is doing realistically well, though i must say some of our fellow VGCers must be a little disappointed deep inside that it didnt sell a gazillion copies week 1. I also wonder if the recalls have had a lasting effect on the whole thing. I expect it to clear the 5 million mark also, as a game of this much quality and promise should.

Maybe, but I myself always figured it would be the legs that were REALLY impressive and Day 1 would not be blockbuster even if the game totally was.  It's like Sony got a Nintendo game.

 

+1.  That's exactly my position as well.  It actually did better than I expected the first couple weeks.  Usually, new IPs like this sell to people that keep track of gaming news and then sell more with word of mouth / advertising.  If you look at games like Uncharted, Mass Effect, Ratchet & Clank, you can see the sales trend.



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Bitmap Frogs on 08 November 2008
FinalEvangelion said:
Final-Fan said:
BringBackChrono said:
The game is doing realistically well, though i must say some of our fellow VGCers must be a little disappointed deep inside that it didnt sell a gazillion copies week 1. I also wonder if the recalls have had a lasting effect on the whole thing. I expect it to clear the 5 million mark also, as a game of this much quality and promise should.

Maybe, but I myself always figured it would be the legs that were REALLY impressive and Day 1 would not be blockbuster even if the game totally was.  It's like Sony got a Nintendo game.

 

+1.  That's exactly my position as well.  It actually did better than I expected the first couple weeks.  Usually, new IPs like this sell to people that keep track of gaming news and then sell more with word of mouth / advertising.  If you look at games like Uncharted, Mass Effect, Ratchet & Clank, you can see the sales trend.

 

Gears of War did 900k first week and 450k second week back in '06 when the 360 was at less than 9 million worldwide.





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Dgc1808 on 08 November 2008

Can't wait to see how sales are for the rest of the year.



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dolemit3 on 08 November 2008

It has Resistance 2 to compete against. The NA numbers will suffer as a result.



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Simulacrum on 08 November 2008

There is reason why Sony have put so must hope on it...

We need to wait till next month,then we can figure it out.

LBP cant be system seller,because 479€+69 for kids is too much,but others might get ps3 because of Lbp...



 

 

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scat398 on 08 November 2008

The NA sales look good but are probably suffering from being one of many good games to choose from. I think the Europe sales will be better and probably the place where this game will shine.



damkira on 08 November 2008

When you consider the amount of hype for this game, sales would have to be a disappointment. Hopefully it will have legs throughout the holidays.



CDiablo on 08 November 2008

Great 4 a new IP



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Krill on 08 November 2008

Even though it's not on my console of choice, I liked the concept and hoped it would do well. Taking into account the stalled launch, missing the window of hype that had been generated, and the closer release to R2, I suppose it still did ok, bordering on slightly disappointing. If you add the sales of last week from the limited early launch to this week's sales and consider the combined total as first week's sales (which I think is fair in the circumstances) I would say sales are reasonable but not spectacular.

I agree with some of the comments above though about the legs of this game: it's the sort of IP that will continue to sell throughout the PS3's lifetime.