And like i mentioned earlier , people acted , when talking about Darksiders and bayo sales expectations , as if the genre usually ever sold better at launch .

Only God of war 2 has been making a big 500k splash within the first week in usa . Most of the time and most successful games of the genre like devil may cry , or even soul reaver way back , always launched with the same kind of numbers and took some time to reach a 2 million mark .

People are naive with the whole “one million sales” isnt enough in this economy and with current budget for games .

it’s just analysts being over-greedy , publishers making that excuse to justify dlcs , and empty talk from the like of Bobby kotick .

So far the current higher budget for games still made quite a lot of dough and benefits within their first 500k -1 million units .

And there is no way that even accounting advertising , it cost more than games like Yakuza 3 , among a few others .

THQ and sega themselves are happy enough and moving on to sequels already .

Hell earlier today , they were PRing and pimpin’ the sh*t out of High voltage , when everyone though that their Conduit making 350k was abysmal .

My guess is that this game will have a decent sales tail. It is stylish enough and made a big of enough initial splash thsat it should keep selling for awhile. Might be on the cheap, but it should still move. That will be when I get my copy.

So it seems that publishers still consider a million units sold as a success, even if analysts don’t.

I guess that depends on what your budget was to start with, and how much they expected to sell. If FF XIII only did a million I suspect you’d find some of their execs hanging from the rafters.