But are all games judged so harshly?  2 days is 2 days and it still put it ahead in europe and a little behind in america with 2 days worth of data.  Not bad and not great but not bad

@euphoria: well i'm asking about the sony thing.... i'm not really sure.

@Avarice: well a game that has been under development for so long, that was supposed to be da BOMB, that people were claiming was another AAA, that was gonna help sony pushed consoles, the savior..... well, a little on the down side. i don't think this are really low sales, just meh sales. I thought it was gonna sell a lil bit more

LOL I posted this b4 in another thread where another console fanboy used the "ps3 saviour" again....

"Funny thing is most of the time I see the "ps3 saviour" phrase is it's posted by 360/Wii fanboy"

looks like im right.

Those 2 days could look even better though if you factor in the fact that all other consoles this week dropped in sales and most likely without Killzone 2 the PS3 would have as well.

720,000 copies in two days is not bad, between america and europe a total of 4 days.  In most peoples book it is outstanding, maybe I am "not" understanding what is good and not good when it comes to sales.  Star ocean sold like 132,000 in japan and people were like wow and then killlzone 2 quadruples this number and people are like "meh!" Maybe it is just people have unreal expectations or would never admit the truth that killzone did the damn thing like it was suppose to.

mmmm do u think that 720K copies, of not just a game, BUT Killzone 2, that was bundled in Europe, is outstanding????

It really depends on the game.... if this game releases in japan and sells 200k that is going to be impressive, yes! If something like... FF/DQ sells 200k in japan, that's gonna be crap...u know why??? Expectations my friend.

If u don't really know it, i don't think is worth to continue with this

Yeah yeah. You know it's so much fun how people try to argue that MS is losing money on 360 hardware while Sony is either breaking even or making money of sales when the only company posting losses is Sony. 

And you using a 2006 article is just fail =/ 

Early yields (on the whole console, not just the silicon) were below 60%, nowadays they are 90% (Dean Takahashi) - that's a 30% in savings alone. Now add the die shrinks, smaller power sources, etc etc. 

I think the problem was that some people were comparing it or expecting it to challenge Halo3. These people were ridiculously silly.

KZ2 sales are very good. It should do fairly well for itself. I guess some of the pressure comes from silly fanboy expectations, but the majority of PS3 owners expected around this number. And there is nothing wtrong with a sequel to a poor first game posting 720,000 sales in 2 days. In fact thats very good. :)

I think some of the unrealistic expectation could stem from the fact that a new shooter IP in the form of the original Gears Of War outperformed Killzone (just) on a significantly lower userbase.  Obviously the PS3 and 360 userbase have different gaming tastes so its not fair to judge performance exactly in comparison.  I think the sales were good regardless, just not outstanding.