With the holiday season fast approaching, it's that time of year when everyone analyzes pre-order sales in order to determine which games will make the biggest splash this year. Data for the Americas has recently rolled in, indicating very strong numbers for many Xbox 360 titles. This doesn't come as much of a shock, as the 360 is much more popular in North America, but what does come as a bit of a shock are the relative locations of the year's two biggest exclusives. Microsoft's Gears of War 3 currently tops the chart with 1,220,810 pre-orders, while Sony's Uncharted 3 holds 11th place with only 145,739. These numbers are shockingly drastic, but is it something that Sony should be worried about?
Here are three reasons why Naughty Dog and Sony shouldn't stress about Uncharted's lackluster pre-order numbers.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
Kinda strange that a 360 fan site reporting about a PS3 game.
Uncharted 3 is going to be amazing.
It is going to sell well regardless of whether or not it is pre-ordered.
If I was your typical obese keyboard warrior I would say "pointless article is pointless" but I'm not one so I won't say it. But have I already said it? o.O Que Twilight Zone musix "Too da toodoo too da toodooo".
Yes- I'm bored at work.
I'm pretty sure more people will just pick it up in release day.
Edit:And if you looke below us you will se inside_out preaching about call for noobs.You might as well be a preacher about cod rotflmfao.oh yea people only buy cod cuz they cant aim and need the computer to help them on consoles.
I will get it for sure but at the moment do not want to pre-order it. If I do it too early I forget that I have to pay in November X amount so for me it is better to pre-order nearer the date
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I don't think the pre-order numbers are the be all/end all as some might think but I'm definitely in the minority on that topic. EVERY trend watcher out there deem those numbers to be near critical to indicating how popular a game will be. Look at the Gears, MW3 and B3 estimates...ALL based on pre-order activity.
Releasing your game along side a game like COD MW3, the peoples champ for several years now is near suicide. COD MW3 will be the biggest ENTERTAINMENT launch of the year...everybody knows that.
I think a bigger problem is that fact the beta was FREE and only generated 1.5 million downloads...that would be a far bigger issue for a system that has 50+ million consoles out in the wild. If they don't bother to download a FREE multi-player beta then what makes you think they will pay 60+ dollars for the game when it launches???
I didn't download the beta because of all the freezing issues, maybe that was the reason the beta numbers were so low.