Infinity Ward Not Expecting High MW2 Sales On PS3?

"With online multiplayer being the main reason everyone is buying Modern Warfare 2, I find it odd that the servers on the Playstation 3 version failed to meet demand. Inifinity Ward already expected this game to be the 'highest selling game of all time', so you would have to think they expected a lot of gamers, 360 and PS3, to purchase their game and play online."

[ghamdikh2]

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.

[rukia_chan]

dont forget killzone 2 too!

[YungXclusive2K9]

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

[edgeofblade]

That's interesting...

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

[CryWolf]

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.

[deadreckoning666]

"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.

[4point7BillionLoss]

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

[Cletus]

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

[Bumpmapping]

Bu bu but PS3 owners don't buy gamez!

[ghamdikh2]

THEY ALWAYS WAITING FOR MULTI PLATFORM GAMES LOL.

[squadass99]

says the man with nathan drake as an avatar!

[Cletus]

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

[Lfmesquite]

yeah, sure.

[coolcole93]

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

[G3TDOWN]

lol that's why we bought the PS3 right ?

[IcyJoker187]

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

[Maddens Raiders]

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.

[YungXclusive2K9]

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

[HolyOrangeCows]

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.

[himdeel]

...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.

[Foliage]

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.

[NaiNaiNai]

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.

[Foliage]

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.

[himdeel]

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

[starvinbull]

This from the company that wants $100 games?

[sikbeta]

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

[Anon1974]

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.

[Saaking]

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.

[JD_Shadow]

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.

[Bathyj]

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.

[Genesis5]

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.

[Eddie20101]

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.

[BWS1982]

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.

[itisa]

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?

[nirwanda]

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

[Jay Bomb]

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

[ShiftyTheSniper]

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.

[Godmars290]

So they sabotaged themselves by not providing enough servers? Didn't clean up all the bugs in multiplayer?

Honestly, I don't understand devs trying to justify lower game/beta testing quality with "lowered expected sales." Especially when those expected sales are expected to be over 1 million.

[Pennywise]

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.

[Noctis Aftermath]

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

[BlackTar187]

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.

[Perjoss]

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.

[mastiffchild]

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.

[Phaethon0017]

I don't think that's a fair assessment. There's some lag and connection issues on Xbox Live as well. Does that mean IW didn't expect 360 sales to be high?

[Fishy Fingers]

"the servers on the Playstation 3 version failed to meet demand"

The game is p2p, surely it doesnt even use servers.

Edit: forget that, I'm stupid with rage. Anyway, some servers are coming back online now according to fourzerotwo: http://twitter.com/fourzero...

[orakga]

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. ;)

[TOO PAWNED]

I think there is more to this, i am ready to go ahead and call this a conspiracy. MS has to do something with this. How many ppl will now not buy PS3 version because they will hear about this issues? Or return their PS3 copy and get 360? Think about it, nothing happens by accident, not on this level.

[oohWii]

"nothing happens by accident, not on this level."

Including you silly little conspiracy theory. Dude, get over yourself, selling more copies of MW2 isn't that important to MS. Quit being such a crybaby.

No one is actually commending IW for addressing the problem, instead they'd rather b!tch and whine about it. How fitting.

[SnuggleBandit]

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

[beans]

Do you honestly believe it's a conspiracy theory?

[Strikepackage Bravo]

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.

[Godmars290]

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.

[Bathyj]

"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.

[SnuggleBandit]

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.

[CptBach]

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

[orakga]

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.

[ActionBastard]

Adding servers to meet demand absolutely means low sales were expected. Jesus, really?!

[BYE]

PS3 owners simply have better taste.

That's why they chose the A-system in the first place.

[Cletus]

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.

[i3eyond the Circle]

MW2 will be the most sold title on Ps3 this year.

Despite what some N4G user may think MW2 was and is one of the most anticipated games this year.

So am I going to rant and rave about it receiving more attention and reaping more sales than Uncharted 2 because I think it is a better game?

Nope...I rather just play them instead, unfortunately that won't work on N4G.

Game on.

Glad IW are getting unexpected demand on Mw2 it's a game imo that deserves it because it owns.

[Iwasneverhere]

"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.

[Rowsdower]

hundreds on thousands of people playing the game

when I play uncharted 2 multiplayer (my personal goty) it fluctuates between 8000 - 13000

how many folks are playing on the PS3 online, I am curious.

[i3eyond the Circle]

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.

[ActionBastard]

Last night, over 200k were on (according to the MP screen).

[madkrazygames]

why do you care, that's the million dollar question?

[bjornbear]

You're such a one trick pony

PS3 owners vary between games =)

And you aren't playing anyone but yourself as a fool. No one caaaares. I'm playing KZ2 RIGHT now, in a full match of 16 vs 16, more than any match you'll find on MW2, and i'm having so much fun, i could care less...

I'm here now cz we changing map...meh! =)

GAME ON

[Mr Logic]

STFU redneck

[thorstein]

UC2 does not have only a couple thousand playing, what a complete and utter misinformed statement. Perhaps on the server you are on. See, Naughty Dog=smart. Many servers prevents much lag.

See MAG. You however, have NO CLUE about how many people are playing any given game. Big deal, the PS3 users were so many that we overloaded the servers and they are coming back on line with additional servers. Sounds like tons of PS3 owners bought this.

[i3eyond the Circle]

I'm not here to go back and forth with words guy.

Like I said people who aren't interesting or care plague the PsN.

Your not interesting when you don't talk because your either micless or it just sucks.

You don't care when you make a clan that switches games every months.

PsN lacks the mass amount of centralized dedication that makes XBLs community one of the best.

In order to make the PsN worthwhile you have to grind hard and follow the trends with the addition of downtime if the game you want to play lacks invite integration.

CoD on the PsN is as close it gets to playing with an intersting and active community on the PsN.

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

[ActionBastard]

In all fairness i3eyond the Circle, that "centralized dedication" XBL reaps the benefits of is mainly due to the price tag associated with it. When you're not shelling out $, regardless the amount, it's hard to feel any real pressure to play MP games. You play what you want, when you want...how you want. PSN only lacks all the communication options XBL offers (and by "all" I mean cross-game chat).

[11 360s and counting]

if you sit around and play call of duty consistently then I would say your tastes are pretty lame and boring. COD is a generic military shooter. The type of game where you can rip ass on your controller and get a facken kill. Shut your mouth because if you go by industry standards, this is not a game that "owns", you're just a silly little girl who fell into the hype and you will see in the coming months just how stupid you really are. You need to play quality games and learn a thing or two you hole of butt. Love you:)

[digitalpowershot]

...so you do not see the whole number of players playing exactly right now UC2. You'll see the number of players on 1 server you are connected to. Get it?

[CptBach]

"I'm not here to go back and forth with words guy.

Like I said people who aren't interesting or care plague the PsN.

Your not interesting when you don't talk because your either micless or it just sucks.

You don't care when you make a clan that switches games every months.

PsN lacks the mass amount of centralized dedication that makes XBLs community one of the best.

In order to make the PsN worthwhile you have to grind hard and follow the trends with the addition of downtime if the game you want to play lacks invite integration.

CoD on the PsN is as close it gets to playing with an intersting and active community on the PsN.

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

sell ur ps

[facelike]

Lots! You cant use U2 as a gauge of online traffic on the PS3, it limits each server to around 1300.

[FwanK]

DICE please educate those bastards

[bjornbear]

They messed up with PS3....ehm, so what? 360 got the main focus? OF course it did, thats where the sales are at, thats where they KNOW they can under preform and still sell...

Its a basic marketing plot: Do as little work as you can and get as much out of it.

And obviously they did their marketing homework =)

[Killman]

With all of the great PS3 games that have been released this year, I wouldn't expect great sales either.

[Kenshinhimurasz]

why would you buy the game right now when the mulitplayer isn't even working...

[Boulty]

Btw, the servers are currently up and people are currently playing.

[Lyner Barsett]

I bought it for the PS3 cause my 360 is red ringed and I was happy i bought it for the PS3 and free play on the PSN. I mean 50 bucks a year to listen to a screaming 12yr ol cause I whopped his arse at a game was what bothered me about COD on the Xbox so I chose PS3 and now I cannot even get online with it.

[JonnyBigBoss]

That's pretty pathetic, and I feel like he just insulted me and all of my PS3 friends. Does he not realize the 360 had a 1-year release on the PS3, and even then the PS3 has sold more in the same amount of time? How disrespectful.

[CryWolf]

I alway wanted to know why all the Call Of duty games was only 5 hours long 360 is still holding back PS3 yet again because of DVD storage.

[dragonelite]

Dude this doesnt matters even BF 1943 had the same problems on both live and psn for 2 days. Somehow people are b!tching about IW and not take that all the battlefield games had the same problems.

And to the people with MS has done this please grow up and play your games.

[BLow]

It's funny how people on here are saying how the PS3 version is not selling well. Well, when I got online last night(at Lvl 1) and finished my first match, I was ranked in the mid 600,000's. Maybe the leaderboard is wrong..right....And those numbers are just for the copies sold with people who play online. 7 million sold. Lets see, by some of your logic, 360 version probably sold 6 mill while the rest was split between PS3 and PC. Sounds about right. What you guys think? PS3 owners don't buy games.

End sarcasm

P.S. I forgot to count the people who just rented the game. -500,000 in sales

[Knightofelemia]

Infinity Ward is smoking some strong grass for thinking that they will get low sales on the PS3. I chose the Ps3 because the first COD4 I had on the Xbox and I was getting screaming kids and paying $50 a year. Atleast with the PS3 its quiet and not as many screaming kids on it. The game that will be getting lower sales is COD 4 on the Wii is what I am perdicting.

[Groo]

I did pretty much the same thing for the same reason. The Kids and the Headset Music..

[dragonZ28]

The 360 version will smash the PS3 version in sales. If you don't want to hear people, mute them, take off your headset, or turn it down. There are easier options and blaming those problems on the 360 is ridiculous.

[Bits-N-Kibbles]

I have enough games to carry me over till 2011. Demon's Souls is crack. I wish I wasn't constantly busy so could actually have sometime to sit and play some games... Story of my life.

[D3acon]

If they need someone to do logistics for them then I can help becuase this is crazy. I never understand why these companies can not support the games they make. They see the pre orders are through the roof and then there are the ones that wake up and say hey I need to go pick this game up.

With all the hype and attention why not overestimate and then gradually adjust for what you feel you need? Because I'm pissed off at the gaming industry as a whole. There use to be a time when you bought a game and it worked right out of the box, now that rush the games to the shelves and think they can just patch and fix everything; socom confrontation is the best example I can give.

If you need an analyst or somone who can help you be more efficient then I would hire that person, at the very least they will keep you from looking like an ass in the eyes of your consumers.

[rob6021]

They're just being cheap, it's expensive to rent out enough servers to handle the first weekend rush.. So they just coast, 'try' to make it playable till the numbers fall back down to normal levels.

[SolidMGSnake]

They screwed up the PC and now the PS3 version. 360 is gettin all the love

[Digitaldude]

Idiots bloody idiots.
I got a solution, give your MW 2 copy to your 11 year old brother and pick up Uncharted 2. A game that FRICKEN WORKS!

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

Damn lots of problems with the ps3 version of MW2. Man sucks for you guys. Really I feel bad. :(

[PeptoBismol]

yea, i'm sure you do

/s

[Hisiru]

Lol, where are the articles for MAG? I won't support MW2 (aka milk machine).

And good to see that MAG is not coming yet but the preorders are HUGE for a new IP (well vgchartz is the source). This game deserves.

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

LMAO. MAG???

[dragonZ28]

The PSN guys can bash that $50 Xbox Live fee, which is really a small amount because most of us spend more than the monthly break down of that on lunch every other day, but at the end of the day, you get the most stable online service when compared to the PSN. The PSN may not cost you money, but it does cost you in other ways.

This isn't the first time the PSN has had problems with big launches and it will not be the last.

Xbox LIVE is just a better online setup - sorry, but the truth is the truth. Bash away and silence me, Sony fanboys.

MS and Sony have to financially motivate companies to get enough servers to handle the load. I would bet Sony didn't pony up enough, but now they probably will.

EDIT:
@Groo - I'm sorry. What I meant was that this isn't the first time that the servers you try to access from the PSN can't handle the load. It's like social gaming welfare. You freeloaders are too much to sustain. Have a nice day - and kids don't scream through my headset, but at least I can play MW2 online.

[Groo]

It wasnt a PSN issue fool, read. I PSN never went down. And you can pay your $50 a year to listen to stupid kids screaming in your ear every night, enjoy.

[SportsFan]

Hey dragonZ28...have you played Gears of War 2 online!!! (LOL)
And, I got Call of Duty 2, when the 360 launched....and it didn't start working correctly until Ghost Recon came out! (3 Mo. later)

You are right though..Xbox live works great, I just don't believe in paying MS 3x. (They get paid for windows and games published, and still feel the need to charge XBL.) I would not object to either a 1 time or small annual fee, BUT I'd rather deal with PSN issues than pay $50 bucks a year. For the record....Resistance 2, Killzone 2, and Uncharted 2 has had NO online issues! Activistion is known for not being completely prepared for online gaming...look at their past track record. I don't have a PC, but what is happening to them is just Lame and Lazy...with all the money Activision is raking in!

[ReBurn]

Microsoft doesn't have to motivate developers to get enough servers up because Microsoft hosts the servers themselves. That's one of the things the $50 pays for, server capacity. Having had load issues in the past Microsoft probably already has a good enough network infrastructure to handle pretty much anything.

[Soldierone]

OMG!!!11! Servers crashed on PS3 side of things! It has absolutely nothing to do with any technical issues or PSN or how its set up differntly than live, its all because Infinity Ward is the biased! We must boycott the hell out of them for being so biased!

/stupid fanboy rant sarcasm over

[Advari]

After this problem with MW2 I see Activisions rep nose diving into the ground even harder than before

[divideby0]

Infin Ward & GearBox....both with big releases and both MAJOR FAILURES...both games broke on release do to totally incompetence of the developers...plain and simple...anything else is just Spin..
we paid for the game...it does not perform as stated on the box....nuff said

[SportsFan]

MODERN WARFARE 1 sold great on the PS3. (I found the numbers to be over 3 million) When I bought my copy on Tuesday afternoon, I was told that BOTH the PS3 and Xbox 360 games sold well. Xbox 360 did sell out, but when I got my PS3 version....I was told that Gamespot had only 4 left. (This particular store did get more 360 copies)

[SportsFan]

Xbox 360 sold just under 8 million copies of COD: Modern Warfare, while PS3 brought in 5.8 million. (And the PS3 was still priced at $399)

NOW, the number for PS3 will be higher...although not as high as Xbox 360. I think it will look something like this:
-Xbox 360 = right around 10 million units sold
-PS3 = around 7.5 million

[SuperSaiyaJinX]

here's a clip from tech watch where one guy says that iw expects to earn 500 million in the first week and then goes on to say that halo 3 earned 300 million in it's first week etheir this guy made an error or iw got the news on the hype train too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...

[SSCOOLCHEA]

plus I had to buy demons souls , nba2k10 (only 3rd party i would buy ), uncharted 2 , buzz quiz world and 10 new singstar songs . And im playing MAG ....

most people who bought there ps3 only bought it to buy ps3 exclusive and some 3rd party but rarely .

[NecrumSlavery]

There are over 300,000 thousand people online playing MW2 right now via PS3. IW just thought with the 10 PS3 exclusives rocking this year, plus their teeth scraping the base of M$'s shaft, PS3 gamers would abandon CODMW2 for other games. But no one has. PS3 gamers love COD too, probably more, and stay faithful to the series that has fcked them over numerous times. So IW can eat a slice of chode monkey pie.

[Pirateogta]

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.

[ReBurn]

Personally I think that this debacle fully explains why some 360 gamers have no qualms about paying for Xbox Live. Microsoft has been through this in the past and had the capacity to meet the load. There have been times when Live couldn't handle the load, but Microsoft learned from the mistakes of the past and made the infrastructure better.

The PSN's model of having the developers host the servers failed this time, but hopefully they learn from this and adjust accordingly.

This is one of the times that everyone got exactly what they were paying for out of their network of choice.

[snp]

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[ReBurn]

Who said anything about leaving things unfixed? I know I didn't. My point was that PSN is experiencing growing pains that Xbox Live has already been through. Adding a million or so new PS3 users in the past several weeks is exposing brittle parts of the infrastructure that must now be fixed. I have no doubt that the problems will be addressed.

And I don't need to defend Xbox Live and its cost, because I don't pay for it and I don't play games on it. My gamertag is in my profile. You can see that it's silver. I use PSN for my multiplayer gaming needs. My PSN id is also in my profile. The attack/defend mentality is so juvenile and it prevents people from seeing the reality that not everyone has chosen just one side.

That $50 that people WILLINGLY spend pays for the farm of servers that Microsoft hosts in their data centers, so there was no waiting for the publisher to add more capacity to support the game. That money has provided the ability for MS to shift capacity to meet demand. As long as individual publishers are responsible for determining capacity and hosting servers for PSN games there's always going to be risk that there's not going to be enough capacity to meet demand.

[snp]

ed:second thoughts this is just getting wordy and repetitive. Agree to disagree.

[crom]

Would the same number of hate toward Infinity Ward be this great if this game sold more on ps3 than the 360? Secondly, would there be any hate at all if this was a ps3 exclusive game? Finally, are some simply hating this game because it's silencing existing ps3 exclusives attention? Almost forgot, would there this kind of hate if Infinity Ward was a Sony fanboy?

[lonix]

Is 6 " mine must be like 20 foot long

[Janglez17]

If you agree that Infinity ward should patch Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for the PlayStation 3 with Custom Soundtracks support show your support and sign this petition below

COD: Modern Warfare 2 PS3 Custom Soundtracks
http://www.petitionspot.com...

[ReBurn]

Do petitions ever even work?

[Goomba12]

Well the game is being tested in multiplatform reviews on the Xbox. Activision is actually partnering with Microsoft, but to think the Ps3 version won't sale is shock and awe.

[LesterCorncrake]

why oh why do people continue to defend this console, cant you see that microsoft wont stop until the bleed you and your nan dry of every penny over-charging you for everythin possible, online, wifi, hard drive, even stupid backgrounds and theme's. im not innocent myself i was in the microsoft web of dillusion for 2 years until i got a ps3. thank fwck for the ps3.

[Gobuz]

I think everyone has underestimated how popular the PS3 version will be. I went to the midnight launch at my local game shop and about 70% of the people in front where buy the PS3 version.

I think many people are wanting to play on the PS3 now. It's a shame that IW/Activision and Sony didn't expect the amount of people coming to the PS3 platform.

[FxckOSX]

I want OFFICIALLY Mouse and Keyboard support on any FPS!!

[UNCLEFESTER]

How could they forget since the price roll back there has been 1 to 2 million more PS3's sold.I was online for 3 hours last nite on psn playin multiplayer and there was 125,000 online at that time.Also had no problems with gettin into matches. As far as the idiots saying how great XBL is over PSN, personally never had any problems playing any of the games I like the best MW1,WAW,KZ2,R2 and hey it didn't cost me $50 to listen to stupid kids, oh I do have a mic. But most important of all I play games on a machine that DOESN'T BREAK OR RROD so pay your $50 soon to be $100 on a machine you can't depend on meanwhile M$ is laughing at you all the way to the bank with your money while they are thinking new ways to sucker you

[likedamaster]

I don't see why not, PS3 has a big enough install base.

[peeps]

unsurprising tbh:

cod4 sold more on the 360 but now theres been a massive increase in ps3 owners so iw underestimated the server capacity needed (u don't wanna be hosting servers that arn't in use)

anyway the most i ever saw playin waw on the ps3 was 150k. the other night there was 400k on the mw2 for the ps3 (i think the 360 was on about 600k when i checked with my mate in the other room lol)

[SportsFan]

Of course, some people in the IW camp knows that there will be more copies of Modern Warfare 2 sold on the Xbox 360. However, they do know that this game will very well be the most played online FPS on the PS3 also...WHICH IS WHY THEY WENT MULTIPLAT! AGAIN....Modern Warfare 1 sold just under 5 million on the PS3!!! (That is a huge success..no matter what platform or game!)

People can hate all they want...but ignorance is bliss! Xbox Live does have a few better features, BUT PSN pretty much offers the same thing...FOR FREE. Netflicks, Sony Store/marketplace, HOME, and online play are FREE, FREE, FREE, and FREE. This, in combination with the $299 next generation PS3 system, is why IW know they will again, make a killing with MW 2 on the PS3.

PS...IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING LAG OR IT'S HARD TO GET INTO A MULTIPLAYER GAME....THATS A GOOD THING!! It means that there is a record number of people trying to get online...so PS3 must be selling a ton of MW 2 copies.

[peeps]

"PS...IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING LAG OR IT'S HARD TO GET INTO A MULTIPLAYER GAME....THATS A GOOD THING!! It means that there is a record number of people trying to get online...so PS3 must be selling a ton of MW 2 copies."

so thats a comment from a gamer...

as a gamer wouldn't you rather get online easy and experience no lag than have a high number of copies sold. how does the sales figure effect your gaming experience?

[divideby0]

this just spells out incompetence times 2.

game has bugs...strike 1.

they didnt know the market place....strike 2.

ahh..should have been a developer or a weather forecaster..both are continually wrong in their respective fields and its allowed...and they still get paid.
these clowns should work in a real field where you are judged by your customers....and your job and life depend upon the quality of your work product
in the case of Borderlands, MW2 and Socom when first released all major failures..all developers are just LOL funny to me

[cc_star]

IW are not responsible for PSN

IW & Sony have contacted Sony's 3rd party company who manages the network to bring more online which is now done.

[Gamer_Z]

wow would you PS3 fanboys please STFU! you guys complain so much. why don't you stop whining and go play your PS3's. you guys say its the best console but you complain more than any other gaming community

[snp]

I think you'll find most of the complaining is being done by those without PS3's. Those drawing long bows and all sorts of inferences on the back of a single, one off - and very 'temporary', unsurprisigly - server problem on the PSN.