@deftangel, Personally, Call of Duty 4 has as many as 3 months more of good sales left. I trust it will reach 3m, but I will support it until March. April sees the launch of GTA4, which will eat sales of all hardcore titles including this one for two months, and especially if my suppositions of Resistance 2 launching on September and Call of Duty 5 by November stands.
Of course the title will continue selling, probably until COD5 is launched (no idea when GLS are paid here), but after March I expect minimum differences only.
Well we know that COD4 sold 1m in the UK already and that the PS3 is closer relatively to the 360 there. Burnout Paradise sales were fairly evenly split 53:47.
Realising of course that my method here is almost as flaky as VGC, take 10% off for PC and say you take a 60:40 split (3:2) of 360/PS3, that's 360k already. The UK is traditionally ~30% of the European market so you could extrapolate that *reasonably* to 1m+ in the EU alone without factoring in the PS3 doing much better on the continent. Given Japan has sold a few here and there, add inCanada, Australia and weigh in the US sales (has somebody extrapolated a rough figure for those given the quoted 2:1 & 3:1 ratios?) and you have an extremely well selling PS3 game. One that will continue to sell given the relative lack of decent FPS' on the system.
I've no idea exactly how many it's sold and I don't propose the above method as a reliable way of working that out but I do feel on a GLS basis this is well undervalued. It's still Top 10 and #2 on the PS3 charts here and we've budget/catalogue sales to go yet.
i know that VGC is incredibly unreliable but where the difference on TSE is decided is in Europe, most overlook its importance but its this region which mainly decides your profit/loss and as the key factor that were missing here is European sales data and how well the versions match up we have no choice. (even with a large degree of accuracy the ps3 version seems undervalued). i feel that europe is in the ps3's favour (360 still in lead but ps3 fairly close behind), and a worldwide 2.1:1 ratio is not unreasonable imo.
@vGInfidel, VGC is incredibly inaccurate. I would only go by the numbers that are available such as the December and November NPD numbers, the Activision number, and any other numbers that you can find from certified statistics sources and/or Activision.
VGC (although inaccurate at times) curently has GLS of 2.06m for ps3 and 4.32 for 360, pc and ds are minimal. now this must be underestimated if activision claim to have over 7mil sold (the extent of which is how much pc sold). when i look at this data i see that the ps3 only has 650k copies to go to reach its prediction where as the 360 has over 3000k to go. either 360 is overvalued or the ps3 is severely undervalued. the numbers do not match.
(im using VGC as its the only worldwide data to go on)
In the UK at least I think the balance is much closer. This weeks charts do have 360 COD4 above PS3 by a few places but it also explicitly mentions that the split between Burnout Paradise was very even, 53% - 47% to the 360.
Given the relatively (to the 360) decent performance of the PS3 in the EU as a whole and COD4 still charting in Japan, I think the PS3 version is holding it's own here even with the gap pretty big in the US. Less quality FPS' on the system must help as well.
@vGInfidel, Actually, the 360 version of this title outsold the PS3 version by more than 3:1 in November (the launch month) and more than 2:1 in December (Call of Duty 4 for the PS3 did not make the charts in December, so it had to sale less than 613,000).
I am not saying I think the 360 version is undervalued or overvalued (as I am still looking at the situation) and I am not saying I think the PS3 version is undervalued or overvalued (as I am still looking at the situation also).
consider this: the 360 version of this game is currently valued at 750, peaking at 922 earlier today, at this price the ps3 version is being outsold 3:1. all the numbers i have seen so far point to a large 360 lead but by nowhere near this margin or ratio.
Taking a look how this is selling tells me this is underpriced.Its allready sold about 1.27million from VGC as they have updated their november future sales.Its one of the best games for the PS3 right now.Ther is no reason why this shouldnt sell 2million or maby more.Looks like a clear buy to me.
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Personally, Call of Duty 4 has as many as 3 months more of good sales left. I trust it will reach 3m, but I will support it until March. April sees the launch of GTA4, which will eat sales of all hardcore titles including this one for two months, and especially if my suppositions of Resistance 2 launching on September and Call of Duty 5 by November stands.
Of course the title will continue selling, probably until COD5 is launched (no idea when GLS are paid here), but after March I expect minimum differences only.