Call of Duty has the COD brand name... its gonna sell big time. On the other hand, KZ2 followed a below average shooter in KZ1. But now ppl know about KZ2... and it will definitely surpass 2 million. Now ppl are pumped about KZ3. And believe me, by the time KZ3 arrives there will be a much larger PS3 user base and the game will benefit from the new PS3 slim sales.

Because the majority of gamers are too casual to know what the hell Killzone 2 is. WHY can't Sony learn from Microsoft and Activision? If you want a game that sells like Halo, or Gears, or CoD, you need the casuals to know about it.

@kantor

Maybe we should keep sending SONY e-mails saying

Market to casuals

we'll send 1 everyday until they do that!

I don't think you need to specifically market to casuals. You just need good marketing period. The Gears commercials are a perfect example. They weren't necessarily targeting casuals, but the commercials told a story that anyone could understand. I have read a lot of about Killzone, but I still have no clue what the story is about.

Killzone 2 received a fair bit of advertising, though, didn't it? People would have seen the ads, but probably dismissed them because they were too busy playing Call of Duty. I DON'T GET IT! Why are CoD, Halo and Gears so popular with casuals? Why, when a game becomes PS3 exclusive, is it suddenly uncool and unheard of?!

Since we'll never know the answer, let's just blame America and be done with it

Yeah but if Killzone was released in Holiday season, we will most likely higher number of sales. Being released on basically the dry season, it will be sort of hard to have long legs.

Next time, BRING MORE HYPE!

I thought inFamous, HAZE, Valkyria and Heavenly Sword did great :S

Especially Valkyria Chronicles 

You can't say that because other games have been launched around that time and have been succesful. There is less competition in the spring.

What story? The story of Gears consists of:

1) Aliens hide underground

2) Humans form massive army

3) Humans kill aliens from underground

4) More aliens come from underground.

Then on the opposite end of the spectrum you have Killzone 2 which is just ridiculous. If you're going to put in that much backstory, include some story in the damned game beyond "Let's go to this planet and attack it because they attacked us!" The backstory is fascinating, but it's convoluted, and for some reason, they can't put any story into the game.

I could argue that most of the casuals bought 360s for Halo and games like that, but what explains CoD4's 4 million+ sales then? The 360 version? If KZ2 had a 360 version, would it have sold more on PS3?