Dude, not 3.4m all on week 1.

By years end. I would be the highest selling PS3 game.

Now you're just full of shit. I said by years end. 3.4 by the end of 07.

@soriku

You've been taking harsh hits to sony consoles.

The ebst selling ps3 game will be heavenly sword this year without a doubt.

I just hope sony doesnt stik with the 80gb ps3 at $599.99 through the holidays.

Now you're calling me an idiot because of your lack of comprehension skills? Maybe if you wasn't stuck so far up nintendo's ass you could see why the game could pull of 3.4m by years end.

At the original issue at hand, Sony's new marketing campaign to market the PS3 as a BD player, this might not be as bad as it seems, b/c the common thinking among analysts is that the BD playing capabilities of the PS3 will eventually land it a lot more market share than it has thus far. That has to be what is going on in Sony's head. This is actually part of a new $150 million marketing campaign (HD-DNA) of Sony to promote the Blu-ray brand. The PS3 is going to get a chunk of that, obviously, so it would be illogical at this point to think that Sony's newest gaming machine is going to be more about movies.

For those PS3 fans that *are* worried about this, how could you really think that Sony is going to dump all of its investments in gaming, from its studio support to SOE, etc etc????  Some people around here are drama queens lol

 I hate to break it to you Leo-J but Heavenly Sword will be lucky to sell a million copies in its life. It was released mid-week like most games are, its release date wasn't anything unique so we can stop trying to fudge the numbers to make it look like it didn't do that bad. It sold 77k its first week and that probably the highest weekly sales we're ever going see from it because the first week is almost always, the best.

Soriku was being dumb (I could see "year end" interpreted as end of 2008, but 2010 is just deliberately stupid), but do you realize that you're saying "If FFXIII released now it would achieve 40-50% attach rate in 3 months"?  (I predict 7 million PS3s by year-end and a hypothetical FFXIII could, maybe, add another 1.5.) 

One doesn't have to be a Nintendo fanatic to call your hypothetical prediction crazy. 

Of course Sony is going to market the PS3 as a Bluray player. Sony is in a huge battle with HD-DVD right now. I think they would rather do less well as a game console player if it meant winning the format war. I bet they would stand to make more money if Bluray won.

By the way FF13 most likely won't be released until 2009. I put my money on late spring. And yes it will move a lot of consoles. Sony just has to look cheery until it's released and all will be fine.