I guess you'll have a busy next few weeks banning everyone for arguing sales data when cost to develop is unknown, eh? Also, you argue that we have no idea what lifetime sales will be 14 weeks after it's debuted. Wow. So 14 weeks in, we can't gauge a sales trend? Most games, you know within 4-6 weeks, but we can't argue Infamous at week 14?

Prototype has sold over 1.3 million copies between both systems, not including PC. If you are arguing profitability on Prototype (which you just said was trolling a few lines ago - claiming that someone can't say a game has bombed despite knowing budget or LTD sales, then what's the difference from arguing profitability without knowing budget?). Furthermore, we know that games cost more this generation to develop. If you'd like to present a valid argument that Sly Cooper on PS2 cost the same as inFamous on PS3, I'd love to hear that argument, because it flies in the face of everything we know. Maybe the legs will continue, but if it's selling 17k this week, then one could only surmise that by November, it will be selling <10,000 units, since it's yet to increase sales on a given week. It dropped from 37k/wk to 27k/wk between weeks #6 and #10, then another 10,000 between week #10 and week #14. That is good legs, but has yet to produce a solid trend to say it'll continue selling well 2 months from now. The caveat is the PS3Slim launch, but if trends do continue, it's going to continue dropping. Only someone that doesn't look at VGChartz data could argue otherwise.

I was just stating that inFamous may have legs, giving Sony fans credit that something great may happen. However, for a nice exclusive to sell 850,000 in 3 months is not fantastic, given many other PS3 exclusives have done better in shorter timeframes. What are the biggest games this gen? Wii Fit? Grossed ~$160m USD on week-1. That's a fantastic launch, and one of the Wii's best. Mario Kart Wii? 2.3 million first week. That's certainly an amazing feat. Both had tremendous openings followed by trenemdous legs. Or are you trying to dig up other titles?

Forgot 'marketing expenses' somewhere in that budget, sir. Between both, inFamous, like most other HD titles, dev costs are ~$20m plus marketing. I saw plenty of inFamous commercials, so I'd assume that it had some sort of marketing budget, no? You also stated that there were plenty of inFamous commercials, so it's only reasonable to say that the recoup costs on marketing may inflate the budget a bit more than $20m.

Going back to the bomb quote. I guess on my end, I just was taken aback concerning that, as far as I remember, VGC lowered the sales of infamous a few weeks after it debuted. Maybe it's rusty memory, but I was thinking inFamous sold much closer to Crackdown than the X360 version of Prototype alone.

I am unsure what expectations Sony may have set for inFamous. I'd tend to think that the comparables of Crackdown, Saints Row and Prototype would be good - new IPs from decent studios for the sandbox genre. So far, inFamous is lower than all 3.

But I digress, maybe I called it a bomb premature, given that some seem to think that an exclusive AAA title needs to sell <1m to be a success. It may be profitable a year from now. Hopefully the studio can wait that long to earn a profit from the title.