Certainly Gears1 had holiday shopping season for boost and that could contribute to the reason for the higher first week sales.

However, I just don't understand how the current smaller user base for PS3 could be used as a reason as well as how people comparing Killzone 2 to Gears1 is unfair cause it's an established franchise. It was a new IP when Gears 1 was released.

This is a slow time of the year and Killzone 2 had a good first week. It might not be record breaking but it's decent enough.

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Maybe they would if they actualy started releasing any on that platform! lol

 touche. They were big games, but not "big boys" like Gears and Halo 3.

Launch sales were not amazing for the 360 because the installed base was slowly coming in from last gen consoles. All those games you listed had legs to survive the sales they got during launch. I applaud most of them even getting over a million out of all honesty. You're talking about launch titles here. Those games were not considered huge.

OK. So Killzone 2 won't make (the killzone franchise) the next big FPS franchise (Halo, COD), 'cause it didn't/won't beat well established franchises sales-wise.

I don't know, call me ignorant, but a good game it's a good game (not said by me, KZ2 it's a very good game) if it gets its millions and makes its dime there's no denying it will get its sequels, just like Resistance got sequels (one for PSP too), they would probably never reach the level of COD, but you know what? you don't know, nodoby knows. Maybe KZ2 will be the next big FPS franchise, it's still open for the future. At least KZ2 is going the right direction, it would be foolish to think a sequel (for PS3, PS4 or whatever) wouldn't at least have "good faith" from gamers (and the media) behind it.

Wait which PS3 JRPG sold alot???

Xbox 360 owners buy games from every genre. THey buy the most arcade games, shooters, racers, RPGS , sports, music, fighters.

Well that still invalidates the idea that PS3 owners mostly buy JRPGs, because if they did...

Despite sales, it's still the top shooter on the PS3 for me.

oh definately. I mean look at the way we PS3 owners treated one of the best J/SRPG's this gen: Valkyria Chronicles.

Appaling. That sends a message that those types of games aren't appreciated on that platform: ergo 360/Wii get all the JRPG's

anyway, enough of that, I'm getting horribly off-topic (yet again. Sorry OP)

I agree. My point to him was that Gear of War was the 360's first HUGE GAME, thus resulting in it's high sales on the smaller userbase. Plus it launched during the holiday season. There is no denying that you will find many who will say that Gears was the first 360 game they ever played.