Xbox 360 Gears of War 2 beats Sony PS3 LittleBigPlanet Sales
Filed under: Gaming | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: November 10, 2008 | 24 Comments
Looks like Microsoft has dealt the first blow to the Sony PS3 on the build up to the holiday season, as gears of War 2 has beaten LittleBigPlanet in games sales in the UK charts. As we well know both titles are exclusive to their consoles.
The shocking thing was LittleBigPlanet even had a couple of day’s head start; it was released on November 5, with GoW 2 being launched on the 7th. The sales data has been taken from the GfK Chart-Track.
Gears of War 2 entered the charts straight in at No.1, with Little Big Planet entering in at No.4. This has to be a shock for Sony, as they have done a lot of marketing on their new title, but it seems that gamers want action instead of taking control of a rag doll.
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not exactly a blow, seeing how theres like triple the 360’s there are ps3’s if not more
Umm, you’re stupid and obviously a 360 fanbot. Little Big Planet is a wayyy better game than gears of war 2 because not only is it something refreshing and NEW to play, it also score higher reviews than gears did. just because xbox 360 owners had 3 games to look foward to this whole year (ninja gaiden, fable 2, and gears of war 2) doesn’t mean that it’s fair that 3 games get to be split between 22 million people and ps3 has like 10 games this year split between 18 million.
i work at gamestop and i could already tell you that gears of war 2 will be one of those games that in a month i will see a LOT of trade-ins for that game because its the same crap as part 1 and that game won’t offer anything much new. Little Big Planet is a keeper.
I would like to see how it gets on in America because Resistance 2 is also out there. I think the sales have done well because my friends are saying “what the hell is that!” get MotorStorm on lol
I think, as GOW2 sales die down, LBP will be in the top 10 for a long time with people becoming interested with the run to Christmas.
you guys are all ps3 fangirls!
GEARS OR WAR 1 borke 3 sales records. It has been on the top of all consoles for online members and hours played.
Gear 2 will beat that. LBP is not even close. NOT CLOSE.
gears is tha champ
it is obious dat gow 2 did better dan LBP seein how theirs much xbox 360 owners dan ps3 …..however LBP is 10 times better b/c its a game dat u wont get bored as 4 GOW once u pass it u get bored n tired of it..but sony will be taking out a GOW copy cat dat looks dope n i cant wait 2 get QUANTUM THEORY ……
At this stage, It doesn’t matter which game is the technical marvel, which game is breaking the boundaries and which game is on which console.
The bottom line is, which one will sell, because regardless of how groundbreaking a game is, the dollar signs are ALL that matters to developers.
Some of the greatest breakthrough games have flopped at retail.
Anyone remember 2005’s “Psychonauts”??…. I thought not.
The game was met with critical acclaim, with extremely high marks from the critics, was highly innovative and seemingly well marketed but stunningly sold less than 100,000 copies netting a £18million loss for its developer… it was never spoken of again.
Shenmue, one of the best recieved games of all time, again, bombed at retail despite its architectual perfection.
People can post on here arguing all day long about how great LBP is, but if it doesn’t sell the numbers that Sony hope it will (And you can be sure they want to push into the 10million units bracket in the games lifetime) then no amount of critical acclaim will stop it from being a huge flop.
I personally think it will do fairly well and possibly even rejuvinate Sony’s console, but be well aware that console unit sales and other-platform competition are NO excuse for a game that Sony is pinning a lot of hope on failing to break into the top 3 games in the weekly, monthly or yearly charts.
LBP needs to start selling more units…. and selling more units NOW.
Things are only going to go downhill for LBP as Sony have been deleting tons of User-generated content that have any title reference or content that involves movies, games, TV shows or any copyrighted characters no matter how questionable .
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/11/littlebigplan-1.html
LBP wasn’t on my shopping list anyway, i’ll be spending this christmas playing Gears 2, Resistance 2, Fable 2, Fallout 3 and if i get time Left 4 Dead on the P.C.
you are comparing the wrong two games.
anyways, it’s pretty sad that games like gears of war 2 - polished version of gears 1, cinematic shooter cookie-cutter action - are what everyone is after as opposed to something unique and creative - lbp. that’s what this article says to me.
Right now GOW2 beat LBP in sales, why? It’s not because of the gameplay we all know its GOW 1.5, its because GOW has built a bigger fan base in the 2 1/2 yrs its been out. I own a ps3 and played GOW 1 on pc and have to say the franchise is great I wished though epic would port it to the PC so I can continue with the storyline. If they dont I couldnt care less because I would never buy a xbox there system is crap (not third party games) but thats a sepreate argument.
Gears of War 2 blows away LBP and resistance 2 combined big time no doubt.