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Single Format Games Nosedive News

November sales figures in the US show tough starts for Crysis, UT3 and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune...

By Gwynne Dixon
Posted: 17/12/2007

While titles such as Assassin's Creed and CoD4 rocketed into the consumer stratosphere during November, spare a thought for those triple-A titles that didn't fare quite so well in the US according to NPD. Crysis, Unreal Tournament III and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune all came in with unimpressive figures.

Crysis (released November 13th) pulled in 86,633 unit sales in November, while fellow PC offering Unreal Tournament III (November 19th) came off even worse with just 33,995 sales. Both titles failed to break into the top ten of the all-format chart and compare to 1.57 million unit sales for the number one game, CoD4 on Xbox 360.

One possible reason for Crysis' slow start could be its lofty system specs, while Epic will surely be hoping that December's PlayStation 3 release of UT3 will bolster overall sales. However, judging by unit sales of the PS3's major first-party release during November (Uncharted: Drake's Fortune) Epic may not want to rely on Sony's struggling machine for such a lifeline.

Drake hauled in only 117,000 unit sales after its November 19th release. Although, when this is compared with previous first-party PS3 releases, this figure doesn't look quite so bad. In their first month after release, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (74,500 unit sales), Warhawk (58,600) and Lair (46,500) all fared badly. More worryingly, the most unit-sales for a first-party PS3 title have come from Heavenly Sword (139,000) in September.

With multi-format releases such as Assassin's Creed achieving 2.5 million unit sales worldwide so far, November's NPD figures are a textbook example of why the console exclusive game is gradually going the way of the Dodo.

NPD figures taken from reports on 1up, Gamasutra and Next-Gen.

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	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 02nd Jul 2008 03:31, Post No: 23 Anyone who says the PS3 doesn't have the memory is a dumbass. The RAMBUS RAM in the PS3 is 4 times the speed of DDR2 giving it over a gig of shared memory
	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 30th Apr 2008 14:04, Post No: 22 piracy is not as bad as they want you to believe.the real reason they didn't sell well is because they marketed the game at a level that went far beyond the level that anyone could really play it at.people want to have what they are promised.you can't show people the best look and then tun around and say that they have to settle for far worse.the SIMS managed to sell millions and millions and that game is sold on the PC so piracy wasn't a problem there.
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 27th Jan 2008 06:04, Post No: 21 what is a crysis ip adress i need one to play online or give me a server name an password
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 24th Dec 2007 07:56, Post No: 20 Not all format exclusives bombed. Mass Effect did 444,000 in one week. I'm fairly confident that Crysis will do alot better on the 360.
	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 19th Dec 2007 18:56, Post No: 19 crysis wont come out on ps3 as there isnt enough system memory for the game to run theres more chance it will come out on 360 as the 360 uses unified memory and also has 10mb embedded video memory
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 17th Dec 2007 17:52, Post No: 18 a nvidia 8600gt will run this game at about mid-high settings with a acceptable frame rate.it helps alot if you have a duel or quad core cpu mainly and fast ram @ 800mhz.
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 17th Dec 2007 15:15, Post No: 17 so, cod4 and love creed seel well because they released early in the month? wow, thanks captain obvious, oh wait your not captain obvious, because if you were, then maybe, just maybe you would have looked at release dates for the ps3 exclusives you mentioned, which all but HS, released last week of they moths, but hey don't let facts get in the way of your video game hate war
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 04th Dec 2007 00:20, Post No: 16 will a nvidia 8600 gts run this game well does anyone know please
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 03rd Dec 2007 15:14, Post No: 15 Disapointingly short 6-8 hours of gameplay on Delta(you AND enemies have less health(I made health and armor 1000 once in the text file it took max strength pucnches to kill nano suit enemies bullets cannot kill them so it's true )..........
	By: Anonymous Added:Thu 15th Nov 2007 22:58, Post No: 14 This is awesome! I am getting it tomorrow!!! Can't wait!