I'm really getting tired of MW3 selling this well when it's pretty much the same game every year.
Excellent review. I agree that the game isn't quite as good as Uncharted 2, but it's still brilliant.
Some friends of mine have been telling me to get this. I'm convinced now.
Briefly, and only briefly, I lost faith in Double Fine.
But it seems that if anyone can make a licensed Kinect game good, it's Double Fine.
I don't even buy PC games at retail any more, now that Steam exists.
Wow, that's almost at Halo levels. I was expecting high sales, but not this high.
Great, another annual release series. At least they're keeping the quality high.
I imagine more kids would ask for Gears 3 than Space Marine, so that can only be a good thing for THQ :P
Early september isn't too bad. They could have done worse and released it alongside Call of Duty.
To buy NEXT. Obviously there will be a bias in favour of games that are out now or soon. The study is crap, and the reporting is even worse.
1) So is MW3
2) I have no intention of getting it on a console
3) MW3 isn't in the same league as BF3.
The only valid reasons to avoid it are that it's an FPS, and the whole Origin thing.
Crysis 2 was downgraded to run on consoles. The PS3 is nowhere near as powerful as even a budget PC.
To rephrase that question: are you a sucker for Activision marketing?
Gears is clearly going to be a sales beast.
No, Senator Lee, they put the interests of the American people above those of the government.
No, Activision, you only want to make MONEY.
I think it's a good thing, yes. Google don't tend to make crap, so even if they do stick to Facebook games and such, they will at least be high quality.
Much as Sony tend to treat Europeans with disdain, Ross McGrath (in charge of the European PS Store) isn't like that. He actually gives a damn about us.
This is undoubtedly a third-party issue.
Honestly, I can't even tell the difference.
Skyrim was my personal favourite game of this year, but I hear it wasn't great on PS3 (I played it on PC). Portal 2 is brilliant too, and fully deserves this victory.