SCEA is 'very happy' with Ratchet & Clank sales

by Justin McElroy { Nov 20th 2007 at 2:00PM }

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction may have the second lowest first month sales of any game in the series with 74,500, but that hasn't stopped Sony from staying positive. "SCEA is very happy with the initial sales numbers of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction," said a SCEA to 1UP. "In a crowded market of mature content, Ratchet is a fun, sophisticated alternative that truly showcases the power of the PS3."

Of course, its sunny disposition with regards to Ratchet isn't completely unfounded, there are, after all, many fewer PS3s on the market than PS2s. Also, ignore the imaginary 100,000 in first month sales barrier that 1UP is trying to conjure up, Heavenly Sword smashed that jazz back in September.

Tags: insomniac, npd, ps3, ratchet-and-clank, ratchetandclank, sales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

j.R @ Nov 20th 2007 2:04PM

Is SCEA really in a position to not be happy with um... any sort of PS3 sales?

Marc Federico @ Nov 20th 2007 3:18PM

true, but the sales are still pitiful, only 180k sales US after 3 weeks out of 2.3 million hardware units sold. meanwhile cod4 sells 180k in 1 week and they are 3rd party (activision).

http://www.vgchartz.com/aweekly.php

343 Guilty Fart @ Nov 20th 2007 5:43PM

I laughed at the 'folds protein' line. Even a PS3 owner can find that funny.

Phranctoast @ Nov 20th 2007 2:04PM

Every PS3 owner should have this game. Playing through it a second time now.

Fernando Rocker @ Nov 20th 2007 2:08PM

Well, of course you are playing it again... it's the only good game...

You can play fold proteins later.

ruibing @ Nov 20th 2007 2:09PM

The problem for all PS3 titles is the PS2's success. When you have such a large PS2 library (costing $20 or less) that can be played on the majority of SKUs, it is sometimes hard to scrummage more money to pay for a new one that costs the full $60.

R&C is a good example because I already have the three releases on the PS2 for my PS3, so it took some debating with myself before I made the purchase online. Not everyone grows a money tree in the backyard, so it's not insensible to buy an earlier PS2 release of a franchise and play that until the newer release drops in price.

Phranctoast @ Nov 20th 2007 2:24PM

playing it again to unlock all the new weapons, and the higher difficulty is definitely refreshing.

come one Fernando. You can do better than that. Your just pissed you didnt get to blantantly troll, and have the first post. ;)

Victor @ Nov 20th 2007 2:27PM

Fernando, don't be an ass.

Damn fanboys and haters, piss me off.

d-pad @ Nov 20th 2007 2:34PM

You hear that sound Fernando?

That's the imminent sound of a ban hammer knocking on your door.

I would probably start thinking of a new username.

dsub @ Nov 20th 2007 2:44PM

If anyone ever got banned from Joystiq for being a fanboy, 95% of it's viewers would be banned immediately.

If anyone ever were to get banned for anything other than personally attacking another commenter, or the joystiq staff, it would be ridiculous. I find Fernando's comments to be funny and witty. Although, I have to disagree with him a bit. The PS3 now has TWO games to play. Uncharted came out.

Phranctoast @ Nov 20th 2007 2:44PM

Agent Smith gave me goosebumps ;)

cc123 @ Nov 20th 2007 2:51PM

"I find Fernando's comments to be funny and witty."

...the fuck is wrong with you???

d-pad @ Nov 20th 2007 3:03PM

dsub,

There's a fine line between being a witty fanboy and being an irritating troll.

You've confused the two.

gonk @ Nov 20th 2007 4:11PM

it's too bad sony owns the ratchet IP, i'd love a 360 port of this and future titles. oh well

Slaziman @ Nov 20th 2007 4:53PM

What's with the Fernando hate? There are much worse trolls (Shagi anyone?) and they don't get crucified like this every god damn time they post something remotely negative.

Fernando, that comment was really trollish, they key to the three hearts is making subtle zingy jokes, not this blatant trolling. Just quit it before you do get banned.

Slaziman @ Nov 20th 2007 4:57PM

Oh and let's not forget FranktheCrank, will somebody please ban that bastard? He's much much worse than Fernando, and he doesn't have any redeeming qualities (at least Fernando makes some good posts some times (3 hearts))

FrankTheCrank @ Nov 20th 2007 2:05PM

It was just a matter of time. Sony is getting their mojo back. And it's about time...Ratchet, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword...it was bound to happen.

jsn @ Nov 20th 2007 2:16PM

is mojo what you call it when your cross platform games are getting outsold at a 3:1 clip and their exclusives are under-selling the competitions even worse. Not that it's the games fault, they do have a few pretty good games. Lets just not be silly here.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 20th 2007 2:19PM

I think we can hand you the award for "Blind Sony Fanboy" of the month.

This is sony saying "Everything is normal, Nothing is wrong" despite their world crumbling around them.

Fernando Rocker @ Nov 20th 2007 2:21PM

And honestly... that three games that you mentioned, can be done on the 360.

Trev @ Nov 20th 2007 2:28PM

and Halo, Gears and Bioshock "can be done on" PS3. What's your point? They won't be, but the games Frank listed also won't be on 360.

plyx @ Nov 20th 2007 2:35PM

I wonder why Nintendo and MS fanboys are so insecure?

d-pad @ Nov 20th 2007 2:38PM

Sounds like a kick ass collection Frank.

samfish @ Nov 20th 2007 3:03PM

"I wonder why Nintendo and MS fanboys are so insecure?"

I'll let you know when you tell me why it's only Sony fanboys who think Mario Galaxy sucks, first.

Vidikron (FU) @ Nov 20th 2007 3:04PM

@samfish

I don't think it's the Sony fanboys that started this fight in the first place. It's only the Nintendo fanboyus that seem to act like only Mario exists in the platforming world.

plyx @ Nov 20th 2007 3:22PM

I'm a Sony fan and I think Mario Galaxy is awesome. I also think R&CF is amazing, too.

samfish @ Nov 20th 2007 3:41PM

"I don't think it's the Sony fanboys that started this fight in the first place. It's only the Nintendo fanboyus that seem to act like only Mario exists in the platforming world."

First, I should say it's silly to have a "who started it first" thing, but if you wanna go there, I'd say of course it was the Sony Fanboys who started it.
Who was called Mario (and all Nintendo) games old, boring and all the same? While then turning around and tauting a series that has seen about 1 game per year pumped out with little to no changes?
And it didn't help matters when that jack-ass Insomniac PR director flapped his gums about Mario Galaxy' borrowing' it's entire concept from Ratchet & Clank.

Hell, most Nintendo fanboys will even admit R&C are good games. Even FERNANDO up there just said it.

Vidikron (FU) @ Nov 20th 2007 3:57PM

@Samfish

No more silly than you saying, "not until you go first". Kind of my point. Anyway, say what you want about what the dev said, but the concept WAS done in R&C first. Whether that's where they got the idea doesn't change that. And you're just fvcking blind if you can't see all the constant hate directed toward the PS3 around here these days. It's almost always some Nitnendo or 360 fanboy throwing dirt on the PS3 and getting the PS3 fanboys riled up.

plyx @ Nov 20th 2007 4:12PM

@Samfish:
Your frantic demeanor is a perfect example of what I meant in the first place.

samfish @ Nov 20th 2007 4:21PM

"No more silly than you saying, "not until you go first". Kind of my point."

Ask a stupid, loaded question, get a stupid loaded response.

That was my point.

samfish @ Nov 20th 2007 4:26PM

And I should add, Vidi, that you're just as blind if you can't see all the hate directed at Nintendo on this site. It's just as bad, sometimes worse.
I would argue that it's usually WORSE for Nintendo...or at least it used to be. Joystiq seems to finally have banned the worst of the anti-Nintendo trolls.

The only one who ever usually gets off scot-free is Microsoft, really.

Vidikron (FU) @ Nov 20th 2007 4:46PM

@Samfish

Come on now... while the Wii does get a fair amount, nearly every damn thread is derailed into anti-PS3 non-sense these days. Even threads that have absolutely nothing to do with the PS3 often head that direction. It's an every day affair around here these days. Maybe at one point it in the past it was like that for Nintendo, but not right now... in fact, not for the past year. Even items that are actually good news for the PS3 are spun in some way to be negatives. Again, that's not to say that you don't have the ocassional thread Nintendo bashing thread, but it's not even remotely close to the scale of the PS3 bashing. I just get disgusted when it has gotten to the point that even a great series like R&C gets dragged through the mud because it's a Sony exclusive. It seems like every single time the game is mention on Joystiq all the Ninty fanboy jump in and attempt to discredit the gamein some fasion. It's apparently inconcievable to them that the PS3 actually has good games and even more so that it's a platformer. God forbid someone actually enjoy a stellar platformer without "Mario" title.

Jimwack @ Nov 20th 2007 4:55PM

"Kind of my point. Anyway, say what you want about what the dev said, but the concept WAS done in R&C first."

Ummm, no it wasn't, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHR7hbvEvdU

unless a concept has to also be on 3d!!!!

Vidikron (FU) @ Nov 20th 2007 4:59PM

I can't access that link here at work so I don't know what it shows, but 3D does play a huge role in the idea.

Slaziman @ Nov 20th 2007 5:00PM

Why do people keep mentioning Heavenly Sword? That game bombed hardcore with the critics, and at best it was above average. It's really sad that that kind of shitty game gets listed together with titles like Ratchet and Uncharted...

Vidikron (FU) @ Nov 20th 2007 5:04PM

HS wasn't rated that badly. Most reviews said it was a good game, just way too short. Given the length I don't plan on buying it for full price, but I'll likely pick it up in the bargain bin later.

Slaziman @ Nov 20th 2007 5:12PM

79 at MetaCritic doesn't look that hot to me...

Vidikron (FU) @ Nov 20th 2007 5:25PM

Again if you read most of the reviews one of the biggest knocks was the length. That's a fair complaint and I won't pay full price for it, but it won't stop me from getting it cheaper down the road.

sbf717 @ Nov 20th 2007 2:09PM

It came out at the end of the mouth though. Those are the sales from a week and a half.....

On a side note I wonder how M$ feels about the 38K of PGR 4 that sold in its first month.

samfish @ Nov 20th 2007 3:27PM

At the end of the mouth? So are you saying the game is crap?
:p

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 20th 2007 3:57PM

No, he's saying the game is Carp.

Josh @ Nov 20th 2007 2:12PM

74,500 in a whole month? I hope that this game gets a lot of attention during the holidays because those figures are ridiculous for a well known Sony series.

ymmv @ Nov 20th 2007 3:13PM

Those weren't the sales figures for a full month but for the last week of October. The last two R&C got better sales but were launched earlier in the month. So all in all R&CF:ToD sales are actually comparable to its predecessors.

BTW It really is a *terrific* game. It's been a very good month for the PS3. I've completed Ratchet & Clank and am now playing Call of Duty 4 and Assassin's Creed back to back. And waiting for my copy of Guitar Hero III to show up in the mail.