actually 3 days, shipment was late http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-67169.aspx

the game released on a thursday in most places

Too bad that since Warhawk was also downloadable that those numbers won't be counted.

And I did rent Heavenly Sword, and it is a great game, just too bad it's so short. If they could have at least doubled the content, I'm sure that the score would be higher and so would sales.

if it did release thursday and sales are 77,000 for like three days I would think that might equal a 1 week total of like what 120,000-130,00 or so.

All the Sony people were expecting it to sell almost twice as much as it did, and a bunch of people said they'd be very dissapointed if it didn't do 200k, and now this is not a flop?

No, Heavenly Sword hsa been the very definition of a commercial flop so far. There's still a chance that it'll have good legs, maybe hitting 500k in the US, 1M worldwide, but it looks pretty unlikely to me.

With all 3 of the big PS3 exclusives he have so far flunking sales, I wonder how all the other "AAA+++" games will do.

This isn't a "flop per se". Look at the other "1st week" sales on the chart. There are several on there and they are lower than Heavenly Sword. From a pure numbers standpoint, relatively speaking, that is a good start for the game. Obviously it is going to have to have longer legs than normal to make money for the developer, though, as I suspect this game is a "next-gen budget" game and will need to sell 400K+ to get close to break even.

LMFAO

it did 77k in 3 days, week is 7 days simple math gives you around 180k first full week.

Your post is the defenition of spining bs fud.

Yahh Resistance and Motorstorm really flunking sales.

I just don't see why this game would have long legs. If it's really that short, people are likely to play it then sell it. I can see a lot of used copies on the market fairly quickly.

75% of the people that buy a game in a week buy it the first day, this is no rocket science.

Give it another week - but the launch numbers are not great.

We *all* know its a high profile Sony title, meaning that all the Sony fans will rush out and buy it on day#1.

It would need to do 50k or more next (360 domination week?) to have a chance of survival - I just think that Sony launched it in the worst possible window for one of their games. Being short it needed a strong launch, and it just didn't happen.

BTW - what happened to the PS3 sales? Down 40% on last week? WTF?