Call it the "Ron Paul Effect" (same with "Snakes on a Plane").  The Internet distorts and makes things hyped appear MUCH larger than they are.  Ron Paul won almost all Internet poll, and didn't do much in the primaries in the United States.

this just proves that shooters dont do well on the PS3 compared to the 360 why they focused on this overrated genre is beyond me

It seems like Sony has a presumptive belief it was going to have the top console, so they seemed to go out of their way to target the stronghold of Microsoft, and neglect its strengths from the past.  Microsoft held serve on FPS, and other niches, and went after RPG.  Go figure.

PS3 doesn't sell exclusives well, thats why Gt5 wont sell not nearly as well.

lol ok...

It's true, for some reason even though they have a decent market share now the actual owners dont seem to care about exclusives.

People simply do not care about whether a game is exclusive or not, they care if the game appeals to them. Killzone 2 did not.

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/index.php?&results=50&name=&console=PS2&keyword=&publisher=300&genre=&order=Sales&boxart=Both&showdeleted=&region=All&alphasort=

Look there, it's the exclusives Sony put on the PS2. None of them sold amazingly well except Gran Turismo (ignore the Sq RPG's). Sony just doesn't have any other IP that can push huge numbers (over 4mil).

GT5 will do fine.

What games has Sony actually tried to make a fast selling franchise? They tend to like making a trilogy then creating something new.

Given what its install base is, who they are, and the other FPS games already out there I think it did quite well. CoD:4/WaW is _it_ right now for MP. Unfortunately KZ2 just was not the game to take the crown.