I’m much more of a fan of the way nintendo markets their games to be honest, we were still seeing nintendogs adverts even this year on the tv, it’s about time publishers woke up to the fact not everyone buys games week 1, half the buying public probably have no idea when games even come out. GTA’s advertising these days mind is just, oh, hey , GTA’s out on this day. That’s all they need to do

(Or basically the time between it launching and the end of the NPD reporting period)

GT games are bigger though, they just sell over a very long period.

Wow, I had really underestimated GoW.

Still… I don’t want it as much as GT5

Haha…. Oh dear.

But not for God of War… God of War just isn’t that impressive-selling a franchise.

Actually… in the US (where these figures are from) it’s really not that unusual to think that GoW is that big. In terms of first month sales it’s very comparable to GT.

The MW2 situation was different, yes, it will sell more than ODST but at the time of that survey it was just Modern Warfare 2, not Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

He was cross he bought it. I wonder how many people bought it, thinking it was Assassins Creed?

XD

It’s just not Modern Warfare 2.

And awareness data is always the most spurious shit ever, especially when it comes without any detail of how the studies were done outside of how many people were surveyed.

In all honesty – It’s ridiculous to think God of War is a bigger franchise than GT. And Modern Warfare 2 will sell more than Halo ODST, so ultimately it doesn’t have any indication on the sales.

But then people are stupid and publishers are bad at marketing. My friend thought Prototype was an Assassins Creed sequel.

It’s only one of a few games that can realistically challenge MW2…and maybe Sony feel like doing a little something to piss off Activision…”

I can actually see that happening somewhat.

I hope it does, just to see Acti’s reaction and for the LOLZ

CoD:MW is a known quantity in this generation.

Halo is a big deal, and whilst CoD is a behemoth on it’s own, the Halo/CoD double whammy is what’s scaring most people off. Plus Assassin’s Creed is a force to be reckoned with too, with the first selling 8 million.

It’s a game with Halo in the title, that’s also an FPS. It’s a big deal by default (like it or not). See here as an example: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24167

I agree that it’s unlikely people are trying to get out of the way of it though. I do think they’re trying to get out of the way of CoD.

And more to the point it’s in September, more than early enough for others to escape.

People aren’t scared of Halo. I don’t even think it’s MW2 they’re scared of. It never used to phase them, to release a title that was obviously going to get swamped.

Perhaps publishers, are doing this so studios development cycles differ, so that their next 2 year development will be completed during the summer.

Though it is worth noting that GT3 sold 14.89…COD sold 13 million, and that was on 3 platforms; 4 if you include the Mac.

And Sony are gonna bundle the hell out of GT5…I know bundling is technically cheating…but Sony want hardware as well as software sales.

And GT3 specifically proves that it can do both.

Well, yeah, that was indeed my point.

Define big… it’ll do 4 million without breaking a sweat. As for your friends not knowing about it, wait til the Microsoft marketing machine starts up. They’ll be sick of hearing about it within a week.