Sega 'reasonably encouraged' by day-one Vanquish sales

After playing the Demo of this game, I was sold. It wasn't even on my radar at all.

I hope they're just being cautious, I'd like to see more come from this IP. The game was painfully short, and the lack of any extra content is a bit of a downer, but I'd still like to see more.

"Reasonably encouraged" is so sad.... i think it just came out at the wrong time...

Ah well... I did my part and bought my copy.

Love the game.. iffy in spaces.. like huge robots shooting through their own legs, or falling debris that hits your cover, but not you, yet you die anyway... and melee which has a cool down period

I need to buy this game.

I loved the demo and beat the game but it is such a one trick pony. Repetitive enemies, levels and battles...low weapon variety and not much need for technique or thinking.

It's really, really average. A shame.

can anyone say Singularity? a good game that falls under the radar because the publisher didnt do there job

Gonna try the game ... but I'm really glad it turned out good for Sega , they gave us some of the best games "and one heck of a console" over the years...

Guys notice Sega didn't say this game didn't do well. Only Joystiq implied they did. It won't do as well as Bayonetta but that's okay. Bayo was a bona fit hitmaker Platinum won't be able to push those out on a regular basis.

Until then enjoy Vanquish!

This is good. Now there will be a quick price drop in time for the holidays. There's no multiplayer, so it's all good no matter when you play it or how many people bought it.

oh man, I didn't know Ultron had his own game now!

Bring Back Bayonetta!

uh... Boobs!

I'll get Vanquish over that recycled Fallout rubbish

So what's with the marketing? Never even heard of this game until by fluke i spotted the demo in PSN and decided to check it out. Ok it isn't a blockbuster but come on Sega, could you just even try and get people know about this game?

Oh shit, when did this come out?

the kmart deal. oh the kmart deal...

I'm kind of sick of game publishers pinning all their expectations for games on first week/first month sales. I think it's one of the worst consequences of the game industry being constantly compared to the movie industry. Games aren't like movies. They will stay on shelves for many, many months after they premiere, and require such a big investment from consumers that there are few who will buy a new game out of blind curiosity without word-of-mouth to encourage them. A very, very small handful of companies - Nintendo and Blizzard are really the only ones I can think of - seem to understand this fact, while the rest of the industry frantically tries to be "JUST LIKE THE MOVIES" and declares to be a flop any game that doesn't sell a million copies the day it's released. Come to think of it, the movie industry ought to shake this attitude itself, though at least in its case there's a slightly more logical justification for it.

I think a lot of people loved the demo and would have easily spent $60 on it until they read reviews to find it's only 5 hours....

It's $34.99 next week at KMart.

http://www.mykmart.com/mykmart_blog/Gaming-Goodness

THE demo was AWESOME; and I had no idea of the RELEASE DATE !, grrrr I got tricked in to buying Medal of Honor the week before which I played for only 2 hours tops a lot shorter than this games supposedly 5 hour (it probably would have taken me longer playing, im constantly playing slow staring at the cool visuals.)

I WOULD HAVE SO BOUGHT THIS IF I KNEW WHEN IT WAS COMING OUT< GRRR I'm so mad i bought MOH, mad mad mad mad... and gamestop would only buy it back for 18$ the same day it released. GRRR i'm so mad, MOH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!! DICE should have never put there name on this product... I WANT VANQUISH !!!

I want this game it looks great, but i just brought Medal of Honor, AMAZING game i don't regret buying it at all.