900k ~ 1 million week one. 3.5 ~ 4 million LTD.

More everything with this stellar game.

Currently 97% for 31 reviews on meta. Epic!

@starcraft

And IMHO Fable 2 was very mediocre. Still, it hasn't stopped over hyped mediocre games from selling better than stellar under appreciated games before.

Fable as a series has always been divisive.  There has always been (largely due to disdain directed at Molyneux for his foolishness in promoting the first game I believe) a section of the gaming community that will simply never allow themselves to like a Fable game.

That said, the aggregate of reviews currently rates Fable 2 as a better game than Uncharted, so let's see if Molyneux can use his first same-platform sequel to make a truly universaly appreciated game.

But it is that line of thinking that makes me think anything under a million as an opener for Uncharted 2 will be underwhelming.  Don't get me wrong, it won't flop by any stretch of the imagination, but it will nonetheless be a higher rated game, launching at the same time of the year, with much more hype, on a larger userbase.

@starcraft

"At this point given two years of hype beyond any PS3 exclusive bar Killzone 2"

What??? You are aware that Uncharted 1 came out less than 2 years ago, arn't you? This is a testement to the PS3 and ND.

Also, forgive me for being naive, but didn't ND officially announce the game on the 1st of Dec, 2008? Wow, this would mean 10 months of hype, no? lol

Nice try. Nice fail!

Tell me something, when you say "two years," "a couple of weeks," "a month ago" do you mean literally 730 days, 14 days and 31 days respectively?

Uncharted came out around 22/3 months ago, which is for all reasonable conversational purposes two years. Are you implying for a moment that the hype for the game didn't start the moment some players finished the first? You weren't on these boards so I'll assume you weren't aware, but I was here for all the constant "Uncharted: Game of the Generation, Uncharted 2 will be the game of the decade" talk that went on.

Believe me I remember, because I was the one constantly getting ganged up on in thread's where I implied Uncharted wasn't the second coming of Christ.

But I will assume that you agree with my point entirely, given that you entirely ignored the thrust of my post and chose to take a petty and inaccurate cheap-shot.

I'm glad we found a middle-ground that was so closely aligned with my views.

@starcraft

"Uncharted 2 will be underwhelming"

Exactly what Fable 1 & 2 was for me, "Underwhelming", as u put it. Liked them, but both very forgettable games, where as Uncharted 1 is still on my mind and I finished that 3 times! With all the talk and hype from P.M and M$ for BOTH Fable's being "the definitive games" you would think the Fable games would come kinder close to their promises, no?

So, back to Uncharted 2. With all this so called "over hyping such as KZ2" as u say, it is a true testament to ND and SONY to truely deliver a game that goes well beyond the hype.

Respect to Naughty Dog and SONY.

@starcraft

You are just plain wrong, deal with it! A little too full of yourself for me...

Oh, and Uncharted came out in Nov 07. So, yeh less than 2 years with only 10 months of "hype". FACTS!

That's overwhelming for me. To put out a bigger and much better game that beats the hype within 2 years, on a so called "very hard" gaming platform to develope for. And with a team of about 30. Overwhelming!

I See U2 getting like Minimum 400k US and at least 2 time is Other so 900k makes sense plus 100k in Japan if we compare it to Uncharted 1.

So if we get these figures I see week1 sales 1.3-1.8 million but it will have great legs so I would be surprised if it sold 3 million by jan 3.

What would surprise me is if it sold more than MGS4 first week so over 1.8million

CGI already pointed out how you have completely missed the plot of this coversation, but I see that I will have to demonstrate that as well.

You didn't refute anything I said about relative time periods, but instead plowed on with your dribble as though I had said nothing.  You didn't for a moment pause to examine anything I said about sales, userbases, gamer-generated hype (the source of the VAST majority of all gaming hype) or single-generational advantages.

Instead you have simple attempted to ignore my argument and re-state the same, irrelevant points and personal insults you began with.

So whilst I again appreciate your implicit agreement with the entirety of my point, I'm going to have to ask you again to drop the attitude and personal insults.

ok now thats a little too pisimistic ..