Disappointing Infamous PS3 sales for the 1st week

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JEDE3 on 08 June 2009

sully1311 said:
yea wasn't expecting much, no marketing at all from what ive seen here in the uk, but the US advert is the ps3 advert yet imo. ltd 600-700,000 maybe less

Lol... really? it sold 1/3rd of that in less than a week and you are telling me it wont be able to sell 3 times as much in the following 104 weeks?

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Potential for this to be a million seller by launch of GOW3?

Maybe... But there are a lot of similar action/sandbox games coming out over the next few weeks. The fact that the Uncharted 2 beta is involved means that I have some fears for its 2nd week sales. It may not infact sell 1M copies.

Tease.

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Munkeh111 on 08 June 2009

I was expecting 200k, but it is okay, word of mouth should mean it continues to sell well

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MontanaHatchet on 08 June 2009

Squilliam said:

wholikeswood said:
Potential for this to be a million seller by launch of GOW3?

Maybe... But there are a lot of similar action/sandbox games coming out over the next few weeks. The fact that the Uncharted 2 beta is involved means that I have some fears for its 2nd week sales. It may not infact sell 1M copies.

Like Prototype and umm...Ghostbusters? Yeah, lots of competition.

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ZenfoldorVGI on 08 June 2009

Forza 3 will be just like this, except scaled up to sell a lot more. One of the best games of this generation, but won't get the sales it deserves...just like Forza 3, I'm predicting.

This post is a prediction, in case you're wondering. Forza 3 will go down the same path.

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MontanaHatchet said:

Squilliam said:

wholikeswood said:
Potential for this to be a million seller by launch of GOW3?

Maybe... But there are a lot of similar action/sandbox games coming out over the next few weeks. The fact that the Uncharted 2 beta is involved means that I have some fears for its 2nd week sales. It may not infact sell 1M copies.

Like Prototype and umm...Ghostbusters? Yeah, lots of competition.

Batman, Red Faction as well.

Tease.

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ZenfoldorVGI said:
Forza 3 will be just like this, except scaled up to sell a lot more. One of the best games of this generation, but won't get the sales it deserves...just like Forza 3, I'm predicting.

This post is a prediction, in case you're wondering. Forza 3 will go down the same path.

i may have to disagree on that.

i feel forza 3 will do much better than forza 2, i think it will easily attain 3 million sales over the holiday and going into 2010 april/june. and by then they could do them double game bundles akin to forza2/viva pinata and could close to 5 million lifetime.

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richardhutnik on 08 June 2009

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Not only sales of Infamous was disappointing in the 1st week, it didn't bump sales of PS3 system such as Metal Gear Solid 4 or Killzone 2. I think most of the blame for poor sales of the PS3 system isn't even the price. The commercials for PS3 are awful not you don't see much of them either. The commercials are poorly targeted.

Also, I haven't seen one commercial for Infamous on TV yet. Where is the push for PS3 exclusive games on TV?

Any thoughts?

I saw multiple ads for Infamous on TV, and I don't watch much TV at all. Why did you think that inFAMOUS would end up being a game changer as far as sales go? I don't see it. It is a brilliant game, worth getting if you want a superhero sandbox game on the PS3 (or a PS3 alternative to Crackdown). But beyond this, why would you expect it to do much? The game should have legs. But it is a new IP, and isn't expected to make that much of a difference. It also doesn't have multiplayer (though the Uncharted 2 multiplayer is worth picking up). inFAMOUS just isn't a game one buys a PS3 for alone to play. It isn't that type of game.

Anyhow, it would be wise for people to stop with this "gamechanger" mentality with every single good to GREAT PS3 exclusive title. It is good to be happy you are getting good stuff, but stop expecting the stuff to sell like gangbusters and cause people to buy the PS3 over the 360 or Wii.

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MontanaHatchet on 08 June 2009

Squilliam said:

MontanaHatchet said:

Squilliam said:

wholikeswood said:
Potential for this to be a million seller by launch of GOW3?

Maybe... But there are a lot of similar action/sandbox games coming out over the next few weeks. The fact that the Uncharted 2 beta is involved means that I have some fears for its 2nd week sales. It may not infact sell 1M copies.

Like Prototype and umm...Ghostbusters? Yeah, lots of competition.

Batman, Red Faction as well.

I don't know much about the Batman game, but I don't think Red Faction is a superhero sandbox game.

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