I have bought a lot of first party stuff from Sony. Both developer wise and publisher wise I bought Resistance 1 and 2, Folklore, Ratchet and Clank tools of destruction and quest for booty, Uncharted, Lair. As far as I know I am the only one who bought Hot Shots Golf 5.
How is sony failing? Resistance 1 sold like 3 million, Resistance 2 sold over a million and a half, Motorstorm has sold over 3 million, Motorstorm 2 didn't do quite so hot, but I don't consider almost 700,000 copies to be low. Killzone 2 has sold a million and a half. Little big Planet has sold over 2 million copies. Socom has sold over 800.000 copies and warhawk has sold over 500,000 copies. Ratchet has sold about 1.5 million and on the PSN storein the top downloads section ratchet and Clank quest for booty is in there, so I assume it has sold reasonably well. Gran Turismo has sold over 3 million and that is just the prologue. Infamous has already sold over half a million. The only game sony failed on was Hot Shots Golf 5.
Obviously Uncharted and Ratchet sold enough because they are coming around once again.The other company's first party titles sell just as much with a couple of exceptions. Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon both never hit the millionmark and only sold about 700,000. PGRsold 1.5 million each on 360maybe a bit more.Other than the casual games, mario and zelda games,Nintendo's first party doesn't do that much better. Metroid Prime only has sold one million and a half. Batallion Wars 2 failed big time. Donkey Kong Racing failed. Animal Crossing only sold about 2 million, the same with Wii music. Wario Land Shake it has sold a little over 600,000. Excite Truck only sold 900,000. Excitebots doesn't look like it sold amazing either.
It's true that Sony hasn't had a game that has sold 8 million copies like Mario or Halo, but I say they are doing pretty good for having a lot of new IP's and the smallest userbase to have first party sales equal to platform that has double the userbase of Sony and another that has a third more. That says something about people thatown the PS3.The Wii has got like 60 million users and yet most of the games barely reach over half a million. Sony will be ok. They just need a game that can get North America to buy the system. Once God of War 3 comes out I am sure the fanbase for America will rise a good bit and Once GT5 hits,Europe's fanbase will skyrocket. Sony just needs to advertise more.
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