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Forums - Sales Discussion - Killzone 2 fails to crack 1 million units in US

NJ5 on 20 May 2009
Kantor said:
That was an extremely ignorant article.

Firstly, where did they get that 40 million euros figure, other than out of their you know what, and secondly, Killzone 2 was never going to increase year on year sales. In case GamesIndustry.biz hasn't noticed, it's a $400 in a recession, with or without a not-particularly-original (although fantastic) first person shooter.

Apparently the original budget was over $21 million, and that was before the delays:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3155511

Also, the advertising budget was over $3 million for the UK alone:

http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-268143.aspx

So without considering extra budget for delays, budget creep and advertising in other countries, KZ2 cost at the very least $24 million. I wouldn't be surprised if 40 million euros was pretty close to the truth, even if there isn't hard data saying so. Advertising alone should add many millions to that.

 



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nen-suer on 20 May 2009

@seece

Oh......thats right, but actually in some regions thats better (like here) were games

are sold for 65-70 U.S dollars



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Akvod on 20 May 2009

I hope when the game is lowered down to $30 it'll sell more (maybe they should do it immediately while they have E3 as a platform to announce this). It's a bit dissapointing, how few casual gamers knew about this title. Huge hype within the entire hardcore base only ammounts to a small fraction of the entire console population.

I remember asking my hockey teammates about this game, and they never even heard of it >.



Munkeh111 on 20 May 2009
MaxwellGT2000 said:
MrBubbles said:
Munkeh111 said:
MrBubbles said:
they shouldnt have released the demo. the poor controls and aiming turned people off, reducing the sales.

I am sure the reviewers who made it an AAA game agree with that... as does everyone in this thread who remarked how much they enjoyed the game

 

because just a few posters in this thread negates everyone who didnt purchase it because of the controls...and the people who were upset with their purchases beacuse of it...

I have to agree, different strokes, and I'll debate the quality of KZ2 with anyone :P I'll bring up real issues that very few reviewers or posters bring up and the reply back is always crap about reviews, metacritic, or N4G, it's terrible how people think reviews are the end all be all for games, but if reviews don't seem to reflect their own personal feelings they throw a tantrum like a 5 year old...

Okay, go ahead



Zizzla_Rachet on 20 May 2009
Kantor said:
seece said:
"On its release Sony proclaimed Killzone 2 to be its fastest-selling title ever in the US, in terms of reaching 500,000 unit sales."

WTF did MGS4 do then?!!!!

MGS4 isn't a Sony title, it's a Konami title...

 

Even though it's not a sony tittle..it stiil proly the fastest seller....Also sony did not say.."It's our fastest selling game"

It's also funny cuz acording to sony VGC has it under tracked1



 



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Seece on 20 May 2009
nen-suer said:
@seece

Oh......thats right, but actually in some regions thats better (like here) were games

are sold for 65-70 U.S dollars

 

True enough, in some cases it helps. I never said it went against Killzone though ..



 

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Zuhyc on 20 May 2009

Sony said it was their fastest selling first party game, not the fastest selling ps3 game.



MaxwellGT2000 on 20 May 2009
Munkeh111 said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
MrBubbles said:
Munkeh111 said:
MrBubbles said:
they shouldnt have released the demo. the poor controls and aiming turned people off, reducing the sales.

I am sure the reviewers who made it an AAA game agree with that... as does everyone in this thread who remarked how much they enjoyed the game

 

because just a few posters in this thread negates everyone who didnt purchase it because of the controls...and the people who were upset with their purchases beacuse of it...

I have to agree, different strokes, and I'll debate the quality of KZ2 with anyone :P I'll bring up real issues that very few reviewers or posters bring up and the reply back is always crap about reviews, metacritic, or N4G, it's terrible how people think reviews are the end all be all for games, but if reviews don't seem to reflect their own personal feelings they throw a tantrum like a 5 year old...

Okay, go ahead

 

Eh?  If that was supposed to mean go ahead and throw a tantrum you failed pretty hard since I'm against taking such things so seriously as most of the video game fans on the internet do :P



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Kantor on 20 May 2009
Zuhyc said:

Sony said it was their fastest selling first party game, not the fastest selling ps3 game.

They meant this gen! GT4 was a lot faster selling than Killzone 2...



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