Killzone 3 Sells 500,000 Units Worldwide Week One - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 01 March 2011 / 24,213 Views
VGChartz can reveal that Sony's latest exclusive title, Killzone 3 has sold 500,000 units worldwide in its first week for the PS3. Sony sold half of the units in the Americas, and half in EMEAA.
Roughly 10% of the 500,000 units were bundled with PS3 hardware, so there should be a modest lift for PS3 hardware during the week. The previous Killzone game on PS3, Killzone 2 released in 2009 and sold 750,000 units week one for the PS3. Killzone 2 went on to sell 2.58m units worldwide, more than tripling its week one figures over the past two years - a figure that Killzone 3 could still hit with a strong long-term sales performance.
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The game started selling good. I was under the impression that it won't sell well because the game lasts for only about 4 hours
@pristine20 friday in uk only for both the games. friday in the us for the 2 and tuesday for the 3.
the game came out on 25th in europe, so this is not the final for the firstweek
@yahoocom1984: Don't forget your medication for your tourette syndrome the next time you adress me. Don't like to communicate with mentally retarded people.
@tripleb2k. You're not being a Dick. You didn't like it that much. That's cool. There are plenty of games coming out this year on PS3. GT5, LBP2 and KZ3 already out with Infamous, Socom4, Resistance3, Uncharted3 and Twisted metal all due to drop this year. You're gonna need a body double just to get time to play all these games.
Pretty good sales! I was hoping for more but PS3 exclusives aren't mega first week sellers. They have great sales overtime though (Uncharted series for example). Side note, am I the only one disappointed with this game? Not too be a dick but it wasn't that good.
Pretty good sales! I was hoping for more but PS3 exclusives aren't mega first week sellers. They have great sales overtime though (Uncharted series for example). Side note, am I the only one disappointed with this game? Not too be a dick but it wasn't that good.
KZ2 was a benchmark game graphically - thus drove better sales. This is just more of the same.
This one is undertracked for sure. You will see... There is still a whole day in Europe left for WW 1st week sales and what about Japan? My expectation is at least 850K if not barely more than 1M plus PS3 in hardware 1st place for the week with about 350 - 375K units sold.
Such a great sequel deserved more, not less than Killzone 2. It reminds me MotorStorm. Pacific Rift was a great evolution but sales were even worse (and much worse) than the original game.
Not great sales, but 500K in one week is still better than most games. With good legs, this should hit 2 mil in lifetime sales.
i wonder if resistance will sell more than this im seeing a trend of garbage sony exclusives here
@azor maybe a lot of people that liked the previous one dislike this. There were free demos for both SP and MP yet people blame kz2 for the poor outing...wtf? A lot of people skipped kz2 cos of it's demo as well but it did better than this.
Eh if I'm not mistaken but this game wasn't longer on the market compared to KZ2. Both games still released on a tuesday in America and a Friday in Europe except Europe got it first on the friday with America getting it the following Tuesday. The first week in America for KZ2 sold for the same amount of time as the First week for KZ3 and the same for Europe.
I suspect review scores also were a factor here. KZ2 had a metacritic of 91 whilst KZ3 is at 85 plus some major review sites gave lower than expected scores. Hopefully it will be a slow burn and sell but based on these initial numbers I think it may struggle to beat KZ2.
more days on the market with a larger userbase and a 30% less copies sold; i think a lot of people that bought the "first" installment of the game disliked it
It only came out on Friday in the U.K. But still this is so disappointing for such a great game.
In most stores, like for instance, in mine, its already for sale for a week already. We had a better 1st week for this one than for "Killzone 2".
Its been out for only 4 days in europe since this article was written, should be over a million after a full week imo
this is disapointing,i though the ps3-community is grown overe the last 2 years especially after the ps3 slim released...and now i see this..
Not my cup of tea, but it seems very low for its value and for its genre. And in my opinion the promotion was very poor compared to the previous releases...
This is what happened when the reviews were out a week before the games actually released. Poor Sony. Why didn't they review Reach a week or two before it launched and bashed its beta MP before it launched!? Dammit!
Lol i own a 3d tv and the 3d mode has a horrible resolution and is ugly compared to gt5's 3d mode! but it is quite nice though!
I'm so mad that lots of people didn't buy this game.. It's freaken 3D damn it!! Stop being cheap and go buy a 3D TV and this game so you can indulge with some orgasmic eye pleasures. I am so mad I'm going to masturbate when i get home... not once, but twice!!!!
Considering it's competing with Bulletstorm and Homefront it's not a bad first week at all.
PS3 exclusive games will eat each others sales this year IMHO there will be many kick ass multiplatform games.
@apollian LMAO. Halo is the biggest game MS has, it released with no other games out and it released after the summer holidays when no games were being released. Just look at other exclusives for the 360 like Alan Wake and Crackdown. Then tell me PS3 games fail to sell.
Disappointing, I hope this would sell better, but given this was made much quicker than KZ 2, should probably still sell enough to turn a profit
I did not buy the game until now. I was really looking forward to an online-coop mode. After KZ2 was lacking an online-coop and every other "AAA" action game such as Gears of War 1 and 2 and the Halo Series has one I will not accept any excuse like "oh we wanted to create some sort of special coop bla bla bla". So he is saying that the offline-coop is nothing special? Or why was it impossible to give the option between an offline AND online coop? Well, i subscribed this petition to encourage GG to release a patch which fixes the online-coop issue (1500 subscribers already). http://www.petitiononline.com/kz3ocoop/petition.html
I did not buy the game until now. I was really looking forward to an online-coop mode. After KZ2 was lacking an online-coop and every other "AAA" action game such as Gears of War 1 and 2 and the Halo Series has one I will not accept any excuse like "oh we wanted to create some sort of special coop bla bla bla". So he is saying that the offline-coop is nothing special? Or why was it impossible to give the option between an offline AND online coop? Well, i subscribed this petition to encourage GG to release a patch which fixes the online-coop issue (1500 subscribers already). http://www.petitiononline.com/kz3ocoop/petition.html
lol @ people blaming bulletstorm. Looking at PAL charts, bulletstorm itself might be a flop.
Decent sales. I feel it will have better legs and sell just as well as KZ2 did.
I haven't played KZ3 yet but does it have the input lag that KZ2 does? I probably will not be picking this thing up any time soon but if it doesn't have the lag I may get it sooner than later. (bargain binned of course)....
Can't say I am much of a Killzone fan, but I don't think it deserved this kind of sales. I personally thought KZ2 was lifeless, but I can't argue with the game's quality. PS3 fans should be supporting this game better.
I think everyone should play this game! No other shooter can come close to the fun factor this game offers, Ill still be playing this when killzone 4 comes out.
Wow! So the So called Halo killer Killzone 2 still out sold part 3! Despite how nice looking it is it will never be a big boy FPS!
I doubt bulletstorm did much to dampen kz3. there just wasn't the samee hype as for kz2.
KZ2 was much better IMO. My KZ3 opinion is only based on BETA and Demos, but the great feeling I loved about KZ2 was totally stripped away... I will probably not get this game, on the other hand KZ2 was the only thing on my mind when it released. I am very disappointed in the direction this game went. On the Valentines Day comment by pbroy: Too bad the world is not like Japan, where girls are giving presents to the boys on Valentines =P LOL. Gamers would be financially strong.
i dont seem to care what the sales are. i have really been enjoying this game. i even like it better than killzone 2. the more i play this game the better it gets. plus i havent noticed any bugs or cheaters. like it much better than black ops.
It was a tough week with lots of good games (Bulletstorm, Radiant Historia, de Blob 2, Knights Contract?!) This game should sell well, considering its being bundled from the get-go and it will sell great along with some kick ass 3D TV deals. Probably sell 3 million or so. Now the real reason the game failed to sell as much at launch..... Valentines Day! So many people are still trying to recover from that one night of wasted money trying to buy affection for that one person. Using a holiday to make things extra romantic to land a night of hot sex. A love that fades away the very next day, after getting what they accomplished to do, by using a Saint's day for their own selfish human pleasures... the world will end soon
K3 will probably end up selling 2.5 to 3m and whats wrong with that? Not all FPS can sell like COD or Halo, if K3 sells 3m life time that would be awesome numbers.
This is expected from an average shooter in a flooded game market. KZ2 had the benefit of hype to get it to it's sales figures but reality has set in on this franchise.
I am sure it will have good legs and it will outsell killzone 2 100%.
@Apollian.. You're comparing Killzone to Halo? Please. Stop the trolling, it's making you look bad.
That's pretty horrible. And the commercials have been all over the place. What I can say is I called it.
More than I expected based on the pre order numbers I can't wait until my copy is added to the total.
@enrageorange really? Launching at the same time as BulletStorm and without the 4 years of hype that K2 had I don't think a lot of people were expenting something better than 500K, check the forums everybody was expenting below K2 launch week. BTW my only console is a PS3 and I have K2.
@rafux. In line with 360 fanboy expectations. Anyway you look at it poor sales. People thought it would improve from killzone 3 and sadly at least initially it was not able to. The hardware boost was pretty nice though imo.
@Apollian I dont think its because the ps3 exclusives arent good enough, its because they arent exactly more popular than the other consoles exclusives. It seems you just want to downplay the ps3 judging by your post history.
thats poor, but its to be expected from the PS3.. what was Halo Reach, like 2.6 million in its launch day?.. thats the reason why Sony is in last place. its games aren't good enough to sell consoles.
Great game!... Great single player expirience (not sure why the critics bashed it) and an even better multiplayer.
It's now all about the legs. Anywhere near K2 sales would be a great result. Pity, the sales rarely reflect the greatness of the work done and this happens as well on all consoles IMO. Hype sells.
When KZ2 released there was hardly any games releasing for the PS3 around the same time. This year there is too many games so of course the sales will take a hit.These are great sales giving the circumstances and the time of year. Word of mouth will give this game legs. Everyone on my friends list who has the game are praising it in there comments and every day theres someone new with the game. This game is not a FAIL.
@leatherhat: It's also probably a little lower because Bulletstorm...I'm sure the legs will be better than Killzone 2 though, lol.
axumblade (on 01 March 2011)
Should have some legs. I'd imagine some of the audience were torn between Bulletstorm and Killzone 3. I can see it eventually reaching (if not passing) Killzone 2...
awe disappointing, it was serious improvement on killzone 2 and is right up there with uncharted 2 in being the best games I have ever played :(. hopefully have really strong legs.
Sad. Sad. Sad. The first game with audio and subtitles in pt-BR deverves more a lot more.
My estimate was spot on! Lower first week due to less hype, but hopefully will have better legs.
It's too bad it didn't outsell Killzone 2 but I kind of see it having better legs considering there's a bundle this time and Move.
fail,fail,fail i expected 1 million!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow and this is the biggest week 1 of the year
I don't really like shooters but I might pick this up if they sort of online co-op for move controllers vs. regular controllers.
