1.1m pre-order book for Killzone 2 in europe

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darthdevidem01 on 05 February 2009

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yup I agree

people are just misinterpreting the numbers for CONSUMER pre-orders

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Zlejedi on 05 February 2009

bbsin said:

ssj12 said:

bbsin said:

There's no way KZ2 will have close to 1.1 million sales in the first week, or more specifically in one region. These are probably the amount of copies retailers have bought.

well arent you a troll.

There is always a possibly that a PS3 game let alone a gmae like Killzone 2 to have a 1.1 million first week. There is still a few more weeks left and mattering customer demand these numbers will increase. As they increase the possibility that 1m in a region increases.

I'm not here to shit on anyone's parade, I'm just being realistic. No one in their right mind would predict 1million first week sales in Europe alone. Not even MGS4 got 1million in Europe, I doubt KZ2 will.

Remember that KZ2 has much broader appeal than MGS4 and userbase at the moment is bigger than few months ago.

Imho 700-800k Europe is realistic, and depending on how good demo is 1M might be possible.

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NJ5 on 05 February 2009

darthdevidem01 said:
@dirty

yup I agree

people are just misinterpreting the numbers for CONSUMER pre-orders

It happens every time... The same as when companies release shipped numbers for hardware. It's one of those perpetual misunderstandings.

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darthdevidem01 on 05 February 2009

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and then people get disappointed n make big threads saying how disappointing sales are.

anyway ATLEAST these give us the "LTD" forecast for the game

the game will DEFINETELY do 1 million + Lifetime in EU (unless it bombs) which I doubt it will

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NJ5 on 05 February 2009

darthdevidem01 said:
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and then people get disappointed n make big threads saying how disappointing sales are.

anyway ATLEAST these give us the "LTD" forecast for the game

the game will DEFINETELY do 1 million + Lifetime in EU (unless it bombs) which I doubt it will

Remember that this probably doesn't include bundled copies, so it would be even more than that.

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And that's three weeks before release so the number will probably increase.

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Grooski on 05 February 2009

For those that are interested, a preorder book is a quantity listing of retailer preorders outside of the standard first distribution shipment.

For example, game company A will order 500,000 units as initial shipment, usually more than 6 weeks before launch date. These numbers are marked as inventory for sale only from this particular date. As the game approaches launch, preorders increase, which will require inventory stock from this shipment to cover when it lands. When this inventory stock is preordered heavily, the amount available for the sales period become too low. As a result, a pre-order book is done to allow for these extra orders, outside of this first initial shipment.

Mr Reeves has thus stated that retail preorders worldwide (presumably) now exceed 1.1 mill. If it was Europe only, Sony would be screaming it from the rooftops.

It does not represent initial shipment numbers.