I had said this many weeks ago & now reality is coming knocking up our doors.

Call Of Duty : World At War has managed to cross 1 Million on the Ps3 in a matter of 2 weeks....almost making it within the first week...

it ranks as I believe the 3rd or 4th biggest launch of a Ps3 game ever....right behind MGS4.

A week earlier Resistance 2 is launched and comes out to comparatively mediocre sales.

Now in UK....Resistance 2 in its DEBUT week CHARTED BELOW COD:WAW in its 2nd week.

Also in UK -- Resistance 2 debuted to sales of 2/3 BELOw Resistance 1's week 1....this is P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C as Resistance 1's week 1 was in PS3's launch week!!

NA -- COD : WAW has managed to do in its FIRST WEEK in sales (390K) what Resistance 2 has still failed to do by its 4th week (only at 360K)

EU -- who knows what will happen here....if it follows UK's trend very worrying for Resistance 2.
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So why has a sequel to a title which sold 3.6 Million not done well (Resistance wasn't bundled heavily).

Because of COD4 is my answer....COD4 led to COD becoming a mainstream monster & now people think COD = quality (which it actually may as metacritic wise COD:WAW>>R2)

Resistance 1 never had COD4 to compete against.....now COD5 has become the GTA 4 that managed to halt Saints Row 2's relative success.

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SONY could've never predicted Call Of Duty will negatively affect R2....well it just has.

Thank God Killzone 2 is miles away from a release of a Call Of Duty

Once more: many British retailers don't have the game yet, that's why it's rather low. You're much like early Sony: shooting yourself in the leg.

@Zen

please.....PLEASE do not use that excuse.

we had the same with LBP....in the end LBP just gained 50K in week 1 over week 1.....n its "not being in stock" was widespread comparatively.

Using that excuse would be shooting ourselves in the leg & damage controlling.

LBP is a blazing success for SONY...Resistance 2 proved not to be

In all fairness this game was been hyped as the ps3 gears of war so you have to ask youself what did happen.

I mean cod5 didnt do gears any harm.

Not trying to troll but facts are facts.

Use that excuse not use it.. that's one of your reasons!

I have had enough of this doom and gloom fest, I'm out.

Also, didn't I mention R2 not being in stock on Amazon?

GEOW 2 is a TPS....there is no comparison whatsoever.

these two games are FPS's

I thought it's the 3rd COD:WAW week isn't it ?

Lets not cut straws here fps tps Sony was putting this game up against gears.

Didnt MS say they had no problem with that.

I am just pointing out the fact.

I am not saying one is better than the other as I have not played rfom but the op was about sales.

To be honest, I don't see how anyone thought this game would do 'fantastic'. It's doing well, to be sure, but the first game got 'somewhat-above-average' reviews, and likely only sold as much as it did (still not a huge amount) because it was the stand-out title of the PS3's launch.

Call of Duty was always going to do well--it's friekin' Call of Duty! XD