Rainbow Six Vegas 2 sells 2M worldwide, Ubi raising fiscal guidance

Sadly, not an April Fools joke.

There's no Adam Sandler movie out so they had cash to spend.

Probably the same reason people actually paid to see Spider-Man 3 and shunned The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

That warm fuzzy feeling you get when you stick to what you know. Like voting Bush into a second term or being a Sony fanboy.

"being a Sony fanboy."

I see what you did there ;)

maybe the huge marketing they did for it. I have seen huge number of commercials advertising it. which heavenly sword and warhawk and uncharted are give like 3 second clips in PS3 montage.

The reason why is: RBV2 is multiplafform. Unlike warhawk, uncharted...

yeah, they really need to add multiplayer to Warhawk really soon.... (/sarcasm)

Because xbox live multi-player is fun as hell...

"Because xbox live multi-player is fun as hell..."

Your right, paying 50 bucks a year is tons of fun :)

Oh. No. $50/year, what am I to do? How am I to afford .17 cents a day?

Oh, that is right. I eat delicious Top Ramen noodles.

I'd rather play a free online service like PlayStation Network and donate 50 bucks a year to help kids in Africa thank you very much.

Or you can send them delicious Top Ramen noodles?

Wow, making fun of kids in Africa? Humanity has just hit a all-time low.

How, Howl? How was my comment making fun of kids in Africa?

How does one person count for humanity?

Finally, can you tell us some more about how great you are because you give to charity?

Sorry maybe it was just me. I took that as you were somewhat mocking kids in Africa. I apologize.

Accepted. I also would like to apologize to Joystiq for taking the comments off track.

"I'd rather play a free online service like PlayStation Network and donate 50 bucks a year to help kids in Africa"

Yeah right, you probably never donated any of the money you would have used on an online service to Africa. Stop using donations as a way to look like you've done some good. The money that would have gone to Africa instead went into purchasing your PS3, with the most popular model being $600, $250 more than the most popular Xbox. That's 5 years of Xbox live service to be able to reach to the Ps3's price.

($600-$350=$250/$50= 5 times)

So yea, while your money went to the corporate greed of Sony (Pricing a console that high?? why not just sell a cheaper version? No, I don't mean a crippled cheaper version (No wi-fi or back-compatibility with $400 version)), and my money went to some other, more efficient causes. I'm not going to lie and tell you that they went to Africa, but they were used for something better than the expense of a console that could have been sold for less. (I know the components actually used to cost something like $850 and Sony is taking a loss at this, but they could have made a cheaper, more affordable version)

@sam

I was using that as an example of how my money could be better spent.

"Stop using donations as a way to look like you've done some good."

Lol, im not trying to make myself look good.

"but they could have made a cheaper, more affordable version"

Yeah but I want a PS3 that has Blu-Ray (which is the reason why it is more expensive). Sure they could of taken it out but then the PS3 would be pretty pointless since according to you xbots "PS3 has no games" anyways. Right?

@Howl- I didn't say it, you see, you did. I'm not one of those "Xbots" you refer to. I actually consider other consoles too, I'm a little more open than most people when it comes to things, unlike the fanboys. Sure, I used to be a bit of a fanboy myself, but you know what, saying remarks like "Ps3 got no games!" is something that isn't true.

It's got wonderful games, like uh, resistance (wasn't that a release game?), uhm... I'm blanking out here... Hmmm.... Well, you get my point.

Jk.

Anyways, if HD-DVD won the war, we wouldn't be running into these problems like Profile 2.0 players not being available yet (other than the PS3), more expensive players, etc. Maybe Sony should have just went the right way and agreed on the rules and regulations they chose when coming up with the next HD-Format with Toshiba and all of the other companies that were making the formats. Instead of coming up with their own format with hardly any standards and going into an all out war against Toshiba and MS. Corporate Greed. They just wanted to make a format they could get more sales from. People who buy 1.0 players may eventually upgrade to 2.0 players.

Because I'm not sure that 2 million people own PS3s yet.

"Jk."

Hahaha such a funny joke.

Why are you arguing about a format war thats over?

By saying "JK", I had meant that I was kidding, I'm not the type of guy that would bash the PS3 for it's games. I was just kidding man.

"By saying "JK", I had meant that I was kidding"

Which is implying you made a joke right?

Thats why I said funny joke.

"Warhawk, Heavenly Sword and Uncharted barely get a million...."

I really think that has to do with them being ps3 exclusives.

Maybe because:

-More 360s then PS3s
-Uncharted and Heavenly Sword (while good games, I liked them both) can be beaten in less then 8 hours each and have no MP or good incentives for replayability.
-Warhawk is alright, except nobody uses any form of communication whatsoever and its a totally different gametype compared to Vegas 2 (hey Sony, nobody wants to pay 40 bucks for a BT headset, throw a corded one in the box like MS)
-Vegas was an amazing game for its time and had the dedicated fanbase already.

I bought Vegas 2 and its alright. Not as good as Vegas and COD4 has improved on the "realistic" combat shooter MP so much that it feels so clunky. I'll still rank up to Elite then probably go back to COD4 or see how GTA IV's MP is.

It is not exclusive to one system

This game is pissing me the fuck off. Until this morning, My best kill/death streak was 12... now its 8... WTF!!! Also my worst death streak was 4, now its 2.... And ive been going like 16/5 kill/death ratio and my stats arent tracking.

GT5:P isn't really a demo, so I don't see what your getting at.

HB96st

You are on a mission to desperately back up MS's absurd desicion to charge for online, where 1st party system selling games such as Halo3 require peoples xbox's to host a friggin game - p2p? I'd keep the money for another game any day.


But if your MS's girlfriend, then i suppose online games that suddenly halt in a middle of a gunfire is a f*cking breakthrough in the making(host quitting). I'd prefer my entertainment without any interuptions thanks.

and dont start that "cant afford $50 BS". Most of you 360 people are way overly defensive for the xbox 360 as if its defensless as an autistic granny.

Im not saying no one should use an xbox. its just
theres a difference between using a 360 than obeying every aspect and elements that make it as a whole

ugh dude, don't you get tired of that GT5:P comment?

What do you call a demo? normally it is a few minutes of the game or just a few levels right?

When have you seen a "demo" of a game as complete as GT5:P? The only ones I can think of are the ones that are given to testers, but then again those are also sold to the testers...

"$50.00 for 12 months, V.S. $50-60.00 for a demo (prolouge)....

I'd pick the 12 months blindfolded."

Free demos or $50 a year to get the demos a week or so before getting it for free? are you that blindfolded to pick the latter?

Enjoy 3rd Place this generation you arrogant and desperate sony fanboys.

Wait I KNOW I KNOW..."just wait till...."

Yes I'll for Final Fantasy XIII. And by that time the ps3 will probably be dirt cheap. And of course theres the chance that it won't be that FANTASTIC at all. Hell I usually get FF just for the graphics and cutscenes.

WOW you're an idiot too! All games are pretty much the same. It's really just based on the setting that consumers like more and the name.

Take for example Mario games, WOW, no difference. Mario is Mario and still sells more than any 360 game. All the game is running around and jumping. No different from Daxter and Crash bandicoot.

haha, if I was you, I wouldn't have said this

"Yes I'll for Final Fantasy XIII. And by that time the ps3 will probably be dirt cheap"

So you don't have a PS3, yet you seem to think that you know more about these games than the people that have played them?

Heavenly Sword:

Started on Xbox, turned down and then went to Sony (pretty sure that if it stayed it would have been praised by xbox fans)

Amazing game, best animations ever, at first sight it does look like a copy of GoW but gameplay wise its far from it, anyone that has played both series would tell you that.


Uncharted:

"Its another CLONE of a legacy game."

I would rather say that it has its similarities with the mechanics of a legacy game, but then again, doesn't the same happen with almost every game nowadays? they all tend to have similar mechanics to legacy games....

Once again, people that have played both series seem to not all agree with your comment about it being a "clone", what makes you think that you are right?


Warhawk:

"another generic multiplayer game"

yah, because there are so many games out there that offer everything that Warhawk does, right?

What makes a game generic list:
(another list,sorry sheppy)

Huge Maps CHECK
Wide Array of Vehicles CHECK
Wide Array of Weapons CHECK
Different Game Modes CHECK
Character Customization CHECK
Use of Moderators CHECK

Seriously, the only thing the game would be missing to be the perfect game would be an editor, but that is really pushing it.

Really, give the games a try before putting them as garbage simply because they aren't on your console of choice, it makes you look less stupid...

does kind of seem as if it descended into a fanboy war a little quicker than usual ....

Funny how after you coming in and mentioning about a particular something, this thread comes to a halt

Stupid talking about co-op... ; )

Ah here we go again.

GT5 prologue has 70 cars with 6 tracks and 16 player MP. its charged at around half of a full game. Since "MP is where this so-called gen is at". 16 player MP is sure a big thing for GT5P.

Tell me what demo comes in that size in terms of content. otherwise, just stop whining about it and keep your mouth shut