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Forums - Gaming - Modern Warfare 2 a Sales flop?

MontanaHatchet on 23 August 2009
ioi said:
@Montana - expectations are high, trust me - not sure what you are arguing. It will be huge - far bigger than Modern Warfare and World at War - but like I said the title of "best selling game ever" is tough depending on how you define it. Wii Sports is closing in on 50 million now, Pokemon Red/Green/Blue did over 30m, San Andreas is well over 20m when combining all versions - same with Mario Bros 3, Mario World etc.

It could hit 20m lifetime (with budget releases etc) on all platforms, which is huge, but there have been bigger games.

Well, even if we don't include bundled games, Pokemon sold 30 million. That's way higher than what Modern Warfare 2 will ever sell. And what kind of audience will Modern Warfare 2 grasp that the other games haven't? There are only so many shooter fans.



 

 

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SamuelRSmith on 23 August 2009

But aren't Pokemon games multiple games?



Wii_Master on 23 August 2009
ph4nt said:
Tayne said:
It won't join the 20 million and up club that's for sure.

You have to be a member of Nintendo to join that club.

Exactly.. 90% of the games in that club are Nintendo so you can basically say that if you are a famous nintendo franchise than you get to be in that club....



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MontanaHatchet on 23 August 2009
SamuelRSmith said:
But aren't Pokemon games multiple games?

The original Pokemon game (Red & Blue) is considered one game on this site, same with Nintendogs.



 

 

Paperdiego on 23 August 2009
AkibaFan said:
@munkeh111

so what?

Its a brand now sow ill initially have huge sales, but the legs will be bad compared to MW1true 


   this is true for most sequals (=

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sguy78 on 23 August 2009

It's going to sell extremely well.



bad22 on 24 August 2009

10 % chances MW2 will be flop.



Hephaestos on 24 August 2009

Well I'm getting that sucker and I didn't get the first one (was way after the wave... didn't feel like joining in).

There is no way in hell it gets most sold game ever, but they'll put a twist as " * on HD consoles"

But most sold FPS, sure that's kind of guaranted.



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Lord Flashheart on 24 August 2009

^putting a twist on sales has been a mainstay of this gen for some people.

So I don't see why this should be any less true and valid as what they say.



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