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JEDE3 on 14 June 2009
bigdom2786 said:
selling less than 200k first week when u an unproven IP and are being hyped for 2 million final is....


I can see it happening tho.....if the game gets bundled later in the future.


Good thing it sold over 200k first week.



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Garamond on 14 June 2009

I think it won't. Like, because of logic.

But really everybody spent your money on a quality purchase and get Suikoden from the PSN store today!



MontanaHatchet on 14 June 2009
NES said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Hey NES, here's an idea. If a lot of people were predicting 3 million lifetime sales, I have a challenge for you. Show me 10 posts from Vgchartz members that predicted that. No, let's make it easy. 5 posts. Go ahead, prove yourself right. Should be easy since so many people predicted that.

Well the post above me is for 2m does that count?

 

http://vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2198161

http://vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2199984

http://vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2219888 (said 2m)

http://vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2269125 (another 2m)

 

There are a few crazy predictions for you. Yeah a few were not 3m but 2m is pretty crazy also.

So...2 people huh? Yeah, that's definitely a lot. And then you could only get 4 when you include people who said 2 million? You couldn't even meet my incredibly undemanding expectations. You are wrong.



 

 

bigdom2786 on 14 June 2009
JEDE3 said:
bigdom2786 said:
selling less than 200k first week when u an unproven IP and are being hyped for 2 million final is....


I can see it happening tho.....if the game gets bundled later in the future.


Good thing it sold over 200k first week.

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php

 

ORLY? Cuz I see 184K



Chairman-Mao on 14 June 2009

I bet prototype wins first week but overall Infamous should sell more.



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JEDE3 on 14 June 2009
bigdom2786 said:
JEDE3 said:
bigdom2786 said:
selling less than 200k first week when u an unproven IP and are being hyped for 2 million final is....


I can see it happening tho.....if the game gets bundled later in the future.


Good thing it sold over 200k first week.

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php

 

ORLY? Cuz I see 184K


ORLY? Guess you missed this thread then

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=76630



Steroid on 14 June 2009
bigdom2786 said:
JEDE3 said:
bigdom2786 said:
selling less than 200k first week when u an unproven IP and are being hyped for 2 million final is....


I can see it happening tho.....if the game gets bundled later in the future.


Good thing it sold over 200k first week.

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php

 

ORLY? Cuz I see 184K

Just an FYI: NPD shows inFamous sold 175k in the US alone in less then a week. That does not include any other country or continent including EU.

About the NPD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPD_Group

 

If you don't know now you know.



Zizzla_Rachet on 14 June 2009
Gilgamesh said:
JRPG said:
Gilgamesh said:

Set the bar low?

infamous did almost 250K first week (sold 175K according to NDP) for a new IP thats really good, Prototype will do less in my opinon, it's multiplat and it's a new IP if I'm not mistaken.

So for a new IP thats was hyped and market well, only 175k in the first week is good?

Don't worry I'm sure it'll have good legs, this is a PS3 game after all and not every PS3 owner uses there PS3 for games, so that's why game sales are usually a little low. Also it wasn't hyped that much, it had decent marketing. But just look at all the other new IPs and there first week I'm sure InFamous will be the same and will probably sell close to 3 million:

  First Week WW  LTD Sales
Resistance 242K 3.60 million
Motorstorm 270K 3.50 million
LittleBigPlanet 335K 2.22 million
Uncharted 133K 2.44 million
Heavenly Sword   104K 1.36 million

 

What else would People use their PS3 for?...

To play Blu-ray movies....Why would people get a PS3 and not a 200 dollar Blu-ray player?



 



Gilgamesh on 14 June 2009
bout Zizzla_Rachet said:
Gilgamesh said:
JRPG said:
Gilgamesh said:

Set the bar low?

infamous did almost 250K first week (sold 175K according to NDP) for a new IP thats really good, Prototype will do less in my opinon, it's multiplat and it's a new IP if I'm not mistaken.

So for a new IP thats was hyped and market well, only 175k in the first week is good?

Don't worry I'm sure it'll have good legs, this is a PS3 game after all and not every PS3 owner uses there PS3 for games, so that's why game sales are usually a little low. Also it wasn't hyped that much, it had decent marketing. But just look at all the other new IPs and there first week I'm sure InFamous will be the same and will probably sell close to 3 million:

  First Week WW  LTD Sales
Resistance 242K 3.60 million
Motorstorm 270K 3.50 million
LittleBigPlanet 335K 2.22 million
Uncharted 133K 2.44 million
Heavenly Sword   104K 1.36 million

 

What else would People use their PS3 for?...

To play Blu-ray movies....Why would people get a PS3 and not a 200 dollar Blu-ray player?

For about a year or two the PS3 was the cheapest Blu-ray Player around. It was either pay $1500 for a Blu-ray Player or pay $600 for a PS3 that plays Blu-ray better then anything on the market, not to mention there wasn't any big games out when the PS3 was released. But Now  people and going to be buying the PS3 mostly because of all the huge games coming to it or already is on it. Also a lot of scientist or who ever they are bought the PS3 for The Cell and because the PS3 is basically a extremely cheap supercomputer.



BMaker11 on 14 June 2009
Zizzla_Rachet said:
Gilgamesh said:
JRPG said:
Gilgamesh said:

Set the bar low?

infamous did almost 250K first week (sold 175K according to NDP) for a new IP thats really good, Prototype will do less in my opinon, it's multiplat and it's a new IP if I'm not mistaken.

So for a new IP thats was hyped and market well, only 175k in the first week is good?

Don't worry I'm sure it'll have good legs, this is a PS3 game after all and not every PS3 owner uses there PS3 for games, so that's why game sales are usually a little low. Also it wasn't hyped that much, it had decent marketing. But just look at all the other new IPs and there first week I'm sure InFamous will be the same and will probably sell close to 3 million:

  First Week WW  LTD Sales
Resistance 242K 3.60 million
Motorstorm 270K 3.50 million
LittleBigPlanet 335K 2.22 million
Uncharted 133K 2.44 million
Heavenly Sword   104K 1.36 million

 

What else would People use their PS3 for?...

To play Blu-ray movies....Why would people get a PS3 and not a 200 dollar Blu-ray player?

Because it's a PS3...it play games. A $200 Blu ray player can't do that. You get both options with the PS3. I'm sure you realized that