Infinity Ward Not Expecting High MW2 Sales On PS3?

coolcole93 - 43 days 15 hours ago

I managed to get this exclusive pic of them working hard on fixing it.

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G3TDOWN - 43 days 14 hours ago

lol that's why we bought the PS3 right ?

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IcyJoker187 - 43 days 14 hours ago

PS3 Update: MP Servers gradually coming back online. Some users may still experience issues. Also, EU Players get Trophy patch tonight.

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Maddens Raiders - 43 days 14 hours ago

by such a half ass and ((((bland)))) looking game, while really good games get half the attention and fanfare. This is simply unacceptable in this day and age. Disgraceful. I'm so glad I didn't buy this game and hope those of you that are having issues, get them resolved soon.

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YungXclusive2K9 - 43 days 14 hours ago

how the heck do you not add enough servers to the ps3 version its bs, they cater soo much to the xbox version they forgot to think of how many people will play ps3's

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HolyOrangeCows - 43 days 14 hours ago

Well, they screwed up the online, didn't test it enough, PS3 gamers have lots of other games to play, and 360 gamers are more keen to play 5 hour games with little to no advancement to multiplayer.

But this IS the most marketed, over-rated game of this year, so of COURSE it's going to sell like crazy anyway. Just not as much on the 360.

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himdeel - 43 days 14 hours ago

...could have purchased the last two months. Lot of options. Anyway let's be honest if PS3 owners don't buy MW2 right when it comes out doesn't mean they won't ever purchase it.

Just think they underestimated their numbers. Everyone was expecting a price drop and now that it's here there are more PS3s out in the wild aka more people to buy MW2. Thus more people clogging the network clamoring the play MW2.

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Foliage - 43 days 14 hours ago

Alongside GOTY Uncharted 2? Good luck!

You have got to love junior bloggers. He doesn't know how to use past tense, the title should be: "PS3 sales higher than Infinity Ward's expectations?", seeing as the PS3 sold more than IW accommodated for. The 360 on the other hand hasn't exceeded their expectations in sales.

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NaiNaiNai - 43 days 14 hours ago

Considering what I saw were I lived. 200 plus people in line at my gamestop and like 10 people bought the ps3 version.

So I don't get why they even bothered.

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Foliage - 43 days 13 hours ago

You know you're American when:
"Considering what I saw were I lived. 200 plus people in line at my gamestop and like 10 people bought the ps3 version. "

Well the bullshitting also gave it away.

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himdeel - 43 days 13 hours ago

...for waiting in line and surveying all 200 people exactly to find out that 10 people bought the PS3 version. Woo!! /sarcasm off

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starvinbull - 43 days 13 hours ago

This from the company that wants $100 games?

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sikbeta - 43 days 13 hours ago

Yeah, Riiiiight.... and that's why months ago kodick/Activision threaten to drop Sony if Sony doesn't drop the price of the PS3, in order to have more consumers on PS3 that buy his games

"Infinity Ward Not Expecting High MW2 Sales On PS3?"

Sound logical.... for a retard article writer, but we all know kodick want more money from everywhere possible, hell even from the wii and that f*cking crappy port of MW2

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darkride66 - 43 days 13 hours ago

I've put in 3 hours already last night playing MW2 online with my PS3. It's fantastic! It's everything I loved about COD4, but just made more so. Did the servers go down today or something? I've had work to do and haven't had a chance to play it again today, but I didn't have a single issue with the game playing last night.

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Saaking - 43 days 13 hours ago

MW1 sold like 4 million on PS3. it may not be as much as the 360 version, but it's still a heck of lot. MW2 will probably sell more (5-6 million). That is still great numbers. However, the numbers might be affected since PS3 owners also have many other exclusives to buy so yea.

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darkpower - 43 days 13 hours ago

Wow, you were that bored to actually skew your own count?

I guess the 360 doesn't have that many games to play if that's all you have to do with your time.

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Bathyj - 43 days 13 hours ago

Theres alot you dont get Nai, but keep trying.

You almost turned me off PS3 for good that time, I only just resisted.

Actually, its guy/girls/fruits like you that convince me more and more I'm right to have no association with anyone on XBL or to sink money on a games library for a console with such a bad reliablity rep and apparently childish following.

Its right about one thing but, there were more people getting it on XB at my store, maybe about 60%-40%.
What struck me most is that very few in the XB crowd shaved yet, and vise versa was true as well. They kept complaining (as they do) that they had to go to school tommorrow.
Its funny cos its true.

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Genesis5 - 43 days 12 hours ago

Well the 360 crowd seems more accustomed to playing a game with a 4 hour campaign, then 6 months of multi player. I like a little more variety in my gaming I just can't see myself doing that.

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Eddie20101 - 43 days 12 hours ago

Just another fanboy article trying to make a story where there is not one. Games sometime have problems with the Multi-player side of things, both on Xbox live and PSN. I think there's been more server problems on Xbox live than on PSN.

The Call Of Duty games have sold very well on both systems, just as well on PS3 if you compare install base in the US.

I don't think infinity ward is shafting the PS3, they are fixing the problems very fast and have added servers and fixed the trophy problem the very day it's released in stores. That seems to me like they do care about the PS3 community.

As far as the perceived favoritism toward the xbox 360, that has more to do with Activision and Microsoft than it does with Infinity Ward. Its another of Microsoft's Money deals, where they pay for advertising the game and have there branding in the advertising, therefore trying to make people think that the Xbox version is the preferred version.

Infinity Ward has made the game virtually identical on both systems graphicly,technically,feature for feature identical.

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BWS1982 - 43 days 6 hours ago

Nai give Americans a bad name, if in fact he/she is American. No wonder there's a perpetual stereotype out there. Props and bubbles to BathyJ for his usual astute insight.

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itisa - 43 days 5 hours ago

Should I be suprised?

It's funny that no websites even compare PS3 and Xbox sales to PC sales anymore.IF Infinity Ward didn't expect high sales on PS3,then I guess they expect to sell only 1 copy on PC.Why pretend to care for all platform if you obviously care only about the money grabbing console?

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nirwanda - 42 days 20 hours ago

that your avatar pic is from a game with a 4 hour campaign and no multiplayer what so ever

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Jay Bomb - 42 days 19 hours ago

"For the best experience, play on 360."
I have my eye on these bastards.

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ShiftyTheSniper - 42 days 17 hours ago

Funny...I went next day in morning when my local mall opened, my lineup was about 15 people, with a few behind me. But like BathyJ noted, only 1 person bought the 360 version, and he was a kid, about 17 or 18 (obviously skipping school), the youngest out of all of us there....go figure (the majority were mid-late 20's/early 30's). Now 15 people isn't near the 200+ that was at the midnight, but as others have said, I don't believe your watchful eye on that amount of people. People just tend to like to see what they believe, whether true or delusional. Even though I know the XB version most likely sold more @ midnight, I was impressed to see all the PS3 versions leaving the store that morning.

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Pennywise - 43 days 15 hours ago

People just keep buying it, so why should they get it right.

Ive played so many other games that the online match making was light years beyond COD4, but yet the grenade fest known as CoD4 is known for the best online game EVAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

The reviewers give it scores like its the second coming and people buy it up. And a game like UC2 doesnt break 1 mil in the US yet? Its been the most fun ive had online in a long time. Maybe I am out of touch or expect too much... but IW couldn't even patch rumble into COD4. How hard is that? I won't buy into the hype and I won't support anything Activision anymore unless it is coming from the Blizzard side of it.

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Noctis Aftermath - 43 days 13 hours ago

the only reason COD sells well is cause its so easy even retards get kills.

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BlackTar187 - 43 days 13 hours ago

i love the game lol but its so true there was a standing joke in my clan that if we had to teach our wives/GF how to play a game online it would be MW because its so fricken easy. the game really is a cookie cutter game but hell its fun and thats what matters. This holds me off till some more bFBC action.

been a long time BF player for like 10years so i have a obv. bias but this game is still so fricken easy online.

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Perjoss - 43 days 12 hours ago

I don't get it Pennywise,
a game like Uncharted not selling well and then you get this MW2 with its old engine and its 5 hours 48 mins singleplayer (timed it) comes along and sells a ton and gets reviews it does not really deserve.

Honestly, MW2 feels like they took this game called modern warfare which was originally 12 hours long, broke it in half and sold it in 2 parts at 6 hours each, because the new one does nothing new, apart from the slow mo breaches which are ok i guess. And the vehichle levels feel like they are practically on rails, feels more like you're watching it than playing it.

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mastiffchild - 42 days 19 hours ago

Perjoss-don't sweat it. There's a far more worrying thin concerning the sales of MW2 than people not buying qualty when they could. It's shown exactly how childish and "gimme, gimme" the gameing community as a whole has become. Why didn't we ALL stand up to them and demand dedicated servers on PC,PSN AND live? If this ios the MP game of the year shouldn't we expect that? When they're putting up the PC/EU cost of it shouldn't we expect that?

Vut no, we snipe at each other and fill their pockets while they provide crappy P2P. Well done gamers we just got what we deserved. When will we learn that it's US with the power and just ask for what we should be getting these days. It's not unreasonable, nowhere near when you imagine just how much they're making on MW2. They played us-simple as-they knew we'd behave like weak willed kids ransacking the house for our Xmas pressies when we could have got exactly what we wanted with a little unity and a weeks wait.

Also, people these days tend to buy what they're told in a lot of cases and then it gets out of control.

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orakga - 42 days 15 hours ago

I think there's some confusion about this, but basically ALL games are run P2P between gamers. BUT, we still need to go through the MW2 server BETWEEN GAMES to update our stats and loadout.

So you weren't entirely wrong about that. ;)

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z-hayden - 43 days 14 hours ago

hence why you have only one bubble kid. Stop crying about people who write things on the internet that you don't agree with.

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beans - 43 days 14 hours ago

Do you honestly believe it's a conspiracy theory?

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Strikepackage Bravo - 43 days 14 hours ago

That was out of line dude, you are doing the same thing he is doing, crying about another posters post, yet you have a suspiciously large number of bubbles, so I don't think what he said has anything to do with his bubble count.

Besides, he was right, too pwned's post was moronic, Microsoft is not somehow pulling strings inside another company just to sell more copies of a 3rd party game on the 360.

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Godmars290 - 43 days 13 hours ago

What is that really going to mean next month when everyone's moved on to the next game. All the non-MW2 fans looking for Modnation Racers, Heavy Rain and all of the other 1st to 3rd party games that either aren't going to have issues, or will with the making blaming low demand for overall quality.

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Bathyj - 43 days 13 hours ago

"Microsoft is not somehow pulling strings inside another company just to sell more copies of a 3rd party game on the 360. "

I didnt think it was true either till you said it like that.
Thats exactly what they did with GTA. Just saying.

And why wouldnt they again, this is XB's GotY afterall, and all they really have over PS3 is the perception of online superiority. I think they'd like to keep that perception.

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z-hayden - 43 days 10 hours ago

i didn't "cry" about anything, I just defended someone who clearly did not deserve to be called a crybaby and told to stop b!tching and whining...and if you saw the pm i got from oohwii just a short while ago, you would know he is just a butthurt fanboy.

And say what you will about my bubble count but i will swear on anything that this is my sole account.

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bachagabriel - 42 days 21 hours ago

I completely agree...
I'm sure MS had something to do about it with the "it's best played on Xbox live"

This is a very dirty play from Activision and MS
MS have always done dirty stuff like that... And they have to do it now because the PS3 is smashing the Xbox this year
The only similar thing that Sony made is remove Sony Pictures movies from xbox's netflix

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orakga - 42 days 15 hours ago

Holier-than-thou much?

First of all, it takes A LOT of douchebaggery to lose all your bubbles like ohhWii did. As much as I don't want to condone prejudice, a user with only one bubble is usually a professional douche. (BTW, did you know that more people have chosen to ignore you than anyone else in this thread? Just saying...)

That said, the comment in question was: "Dude, get over yourself, selling more copies of MW2 isn't that important to MS. Quit being such a crybaby."

Now, before we get into the "crybaby" thing, please realize that THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE. Like others have pointed out, not only has MS FUNDED the MW2 marketing campaign (BECAUSE they care about selling more MW2 on the 360), but they've pulled this lame trick on EVERY multi-platform release (except Batman:AA). So that's already a bad start for oohWii.

Then there's the crybaby thing...
I dunno. IMO, that says more about ohhWii's level of maturity than anything else, and I think you picked the wrong person to side with in this case.

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Iwasneverhere - 42 days 21 hours ago

"Sony should release an activity chart so people could see how poor it is."

Maybe Microsoft should release a chart outlining the number and/or percentage of XBOX360 failures due to the RROD and other issues.

I'm not trying to be a d!ck here man but:

"MW and WaW are the only games on the PsN were I made plenty of friends in a few matches years after their releases."

I don't play games to make friends. It's sad that I have only 1 person in my friends list. But I know him personally. They rest of my friends cannot afford a ps3 or much of anything else for that matter. It sux but, seriously? I am not going to have a full list of people that I do not even know just so I can have someone to talk to. I have just as much fun without them and personally I don't see how a list of strangers is supposed to make the experience any better. Unless I am playing with someone I know personally, I can't be empathetic with they're successe and failures. Multiplayer is more fun alone than with people I care nothing about.

EDIT: I know this was directed at the wrong post but you still said what I quoted.

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i3eyond the Circle - 43 days 14 hours ago

Sony should release an activity chart so people could see how poor it is.

The CoDs are the reigning champs of the PsN

MW WAW MW2 combined total players probably outnumber every online games community on the Ps3 combined.

Don't fall into the hype like I did with KZ2 and Resistance 2 because you'll end up playing with no one in a months time if your friends go back to CoD or Warhawk.

Let me rephrase.

You'll end up playing with people that aren't interesting or give a damn about the game.

The PsN community is spread out and in order to experience a full of life PsN moment you'll have to either be playing some CoD or catch a new release in its a first month.

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hellghan666 - 43 days 16 hours ago

dont forget killzone 2 too!

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YungXclusive2K9 - 43 days 14 hours ago

according to vg chartz the game fuking sold very well on ps3 dispite the many exclusives we received im surprised 360 didn't outsell the ps3 version more

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edgeofblade - 43 days 13 hours ago

That's interesting...

You type in all caps until you get to the names of the games. Hope the paycheck is worth it, shill.

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CryWolf - 43 days 13 hours ago

I care about multiplatform games and yes i own a PS3 also, i like playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 1 so what are you talking about.

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deadreckoning666 - 43 days 13 hours ago

"WHAT DID YOU EXPECT,WHEN YOU HAVE TONS OF EXCLUSIVES LIKE Demon's Souls, Uncharted 2, and R&C WHO CARES ABOUT I MULTI PLATFORM GAME."

U say that but Modern Warfare 2 ill be the best selling game on the PS3 anyways. I suggest backing ur words up with fact in the future. I'll send u the article with PS3 sales for the week when they pop up.

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4point7BillionLoss - 43 days 4 hours ago

don't buy any games ... because they're so poor after buying glorified blue ray players with amazing Folding @ home that they spend the rest of their lives saving for one game a year.

Losers

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Cletus - 43 days 3 hours ago

Iz don think dat you shud sa thing like demon:s sole. My ma whupt me for sayn fiddle sticks wun time.

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squadass99 - 43 days 16 hours ago

says the man with nathan drake as an avatar!

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Cletus - 43 days 3 hours ago

I boght a dead hamster onc. He didnt las long.

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buying1999 - 42 days 22 hours ago

LOL...Poor "lamebox" owners don't have any good exclusives and were starving for something worth playing. PS3 owners had UC2, KZ2, Demon's Souls, and a host of exclusives. This would explain why Infinity Ward was caught off guard.

PS3....Get on board or get left behind

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Cletus - 43 days 3 hours ago

I noz abut that a-stuff. I wunz boght a a-hol, er at lest the nic guy tolz me so. Cos me 29 bucets but I glad I stil hav dat a-hol in my shoe.

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Pirateogta - 43 days 9 hours ago

If there are 300,000 people on MW2 online on the PS3, then there must be at least 2.5 million online on the 360 version.

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