I'm not enough of a shooter fan to be all that excited for this game. I might check it out for the single player campaign if it ever becomes dirt cheap used, but otherwise "meh".
Still, congrats to Infinity Ward for their success if they pulled it off and these numbers are indeed accurate as opposed to something they bought. Taking the #1 sales slot is a pretty big deal.
The big "down side" to this for me is simply that even if MW2 is incredible, it's simply going to encourage even more shooters and such as people try and cash in on what they see as a successful formula more so than they have been already.
Truthfully, I do not find the report to be totally unbelievable. Simply put it doesn't seem that there have been all that many good 'straight' FPS games this year. Borderlands which strikes me as being the champ before this is a FPS/light RPG hybrid. Even most other shooters in general having had mixed reception. "Red Faction: Gueriella" being a good game for example, but receiving a lot of complaints because for a game called "Gueriella" it had like zero stealth components.
So basically we've got a big multiplayer FPS coming out right around Christmas when all of the other game companies with major competing titles have pushed up into next year, combined with a relatively hungry market of shooter fanatics who have had little to definitively sink their teeth into. Leading of course to the endless cries about how the various shooter/RPG games weren't "shooter enough" to take on an unusually high pitch. It's basically a perfect storm of timing, and anticipation.
What few doubts I have are mostly due to the fact that you had games like Halo 3, and even the "Rainbow Six" titles that seemed to be getting as much, if not more hype than MW 2 for their time, and without the whole "dedicated servers scandal". The Halo fanbase being especially rabid for reasons I don't think I need to explain.
I find it easier to believe the it's the new record holder (which we will see change frequently like with movies and box officer figures) than the claim of the margin by which it's holding that record.
Still, congrats to Infinity Ward for their success if they pulled it off and these numbers are indeed accurate as opposed to something they bought. Taking the #1 sales slot is a pretty big deal.
The big "down side" to this for me is simply that even if MW2 is incredible, it's simply going to encourage even more shooters and such as people try and cash in on what they see as a successful formula more so than they have been already.
Truthfully, I do not find the report to be totally unbelievable. Simply put it doesn't seem that there have been all that many good 'straight' FPS games this year. Borderlands which strikes me as being the champ before this is a FPS/light RPG hybrid. Even most other shooters in general having had mixed reception. "Red Faction: Gueriella" being a good game for example, but receiving a lot of complaints because for a game called "Gueriella" it had like zero stealth components.
So basically we've got a big multiplayer FPS coming out right around Christmas when all of the other game companies with major competing titles have pushed up into next year, combined with a relatively hungry market of shooter fanatics who have had little to definitively sink their teeth into. Leading of course to the endless cries about how the various shooter/RPG games weren't "shooter enough" to take on an unusually high pitch. It's basically a perfect storm of timing, and anticipation.
What few doubts I have are mostly due to the fact that you had games like Halo 3, and even the "Rainbow Six" titles that seemed to be getting as much, if not more hype than MW 2 for their time, and without the whole "dedicated servers scandal". The Halo fanbase being especially rabid for reasons I don't think I need to explain.
I find it easier to believe the it's the new record holder (which we will see change frequently like with movies and box officer figures) than the claim of the margin by which it's holding that record.
