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heruamon on 02 December 2008

I'm really confused by the performance of this game to-date.  Sure, COD5:WaW was a major release, but how is it possible for the flagship shooter (I say flasgship, since it was the first!) to open this weakly?  While COd does very well on 360, it's certianly not going to knock Halo or GeOW of the perch, so I find this weak an opening in UK to be staggering.  R2 was susposed to have so many more feature than anything on the market, but gamers are simply not buying in the hype...66% of the first game's total is an BIG OUCH, no matter how you try to spin it.

http://chartget.blogspot.com/2008/12/resistance-2-debuts-at-disappointing.html 



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Zucas on 02 December 2008

Lost out to COD5 is what I interpret. Shooters are usually a very mainstream genres so in some ways its not that surprising. COD is just a bigger mainstream franchise right now than Resistance.

Don't get me wrong Resi 2 sales will still be pretty good but not as good as COD5.



aidey68 on 02 December 2008

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/euk-stores-waiting-on-resistance-2

This could well have had an affect on sales, I haven't seen much in the way of tv advertising either yet.....



Paperdiego on 02 December 2008

who expected r2 to be good?
i was under the impression that the first resistance game was mediocre at best. a generic sooting game??



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Spankey on 02 December 2008
aidey68 said:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/euk-stores-waiting-on-resistance-2

This could well have had an affect on sales, I haven't seen much in the way of tv advertising either yet.....

 

Oh shit.

That explains a lot.

I thought the release date had been delayed in my region, because now it only releases on the 5th.

Or, rather it's supposed to but my buddies at the local shops say their suppliers haven't got any copies yet.

What a cock-up



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Spankey on 02 December 2008
Paperdiego said:
who expected r2 to be good?
i was under the impression that the first resistance game was mediocre at best. a generic sooting game??

 

Your impression is incorrect. Try playing it.



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--OkeyDokey-- on 02 December 2008
Spankey said:
Paperdiego said:
who expected r2 to be good?
i was under the impression that the first resistance game was mediocre at best. a generic sooting game??

 

Your impression is incorrect. Try playing it.

He's right. R1 sucked and R2 isn't much better. Insomniac should stick to platformers or maybe take their time instead of releasing a new game every year.



Spankey on 02 December 2008
--OkeyDokey-- said:
Spankey said:
Paperdiego said:
who expected r2 to be good?
i was under the impression that the first resistance game was mediocre at best. a generic sooting game??

 

Your impression is incorrect. Try playing it.

He's right. R1 sucked and R2 isn't much better. Insomniac should stick to platformers or maybe take their time instead of releasing a new game every year.

 

R1 sucked?

Thats news to me. I think it's awesome. In fact, I'm playing it again on yet another playthrough. And, the multi-player was a lot of fun too.

Why do you say it sucked?



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Username2324 on 02 December 2008

Well the first Resitance started out slow as well, we'll see.



Tyrannical on 02 December 2008

No real suprise. The PS3 isn't exactly strong in the UK, and Resistance 2 isn't good enough to drag people away from Call of Duty.



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