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Under 200,000 copies sold of Resistance 3 in September

Posted Oct 15, 2011 at 7:38AM EST by Harrison E

Listed in: News Tags: game charts, Insomniac Games, NPD, ps3, resistence 3
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Resistence 3 by Insomniac Games was a bit hyped but very under advertised game put forward by Sony. The NPD has put forward that the game incredibly undersold, barely breaking a million copies sold despite it's recent release. The game was the final game in the series (excluding the PSP ports and possibly upcoming Vita release), and it looks like it will stay that way.

Whilst I have never played any of the games in the series, I'd always heard of the controversy and mixed reviews that had come out of the series. Never anything major, mainly things like a story with a lot of potentialy but with very little pay off.


The game is a browny first person shooter from looking at a lot of videos online. The only way I could tell it apart from other browny grainy first person shooters was certain monsters, which I believe are called Chimera, in the series turning up. I have to admit, they are incredibly cool and bad ass looking creatures who really do not reflect the name of Chimera. I would have given them like a human-specfic name like the "Droolers" or the "Slobberies" or the "Gross-WTF-eries", if someone can tell me why they're called Chimera, do leave a comment calling me an asshat, with a nice detailed explanation.

 

Strategy Informer made a great analysis that I'm not gonna claim, with the game getting mroe insult to injury with the game had a tough time considering it's release date between other First Person Shooters. "The game's 6th September release was two weeks after Deus Ex: Human Revolution and two weeks before Gears of War 3". They added a bit of history showing that the series has never really that much popular with Resistance 2 debuting at #9 when it was initally released in 2008, it still sold twice as many copies in its first month of release than Resistance 3, which was 7th on the list this September.

 

It's a shame, but who knows, someone might dust it off in a few years, enjoy it, smile, shoot a few things and then go back to playing a game where you virtually fight in a war with large breasted amazons and winged unicorns who shoot gigantic lasers at a snivelling group of enemies that are aliens crossed with nazis crossed with pink demons...no one steal this idea, please.

Via [StrategyInformer]



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-2 # Maybe this had something to do with itT24 2011-10-15 10:17
Resistance 3 was plagued by technical issues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQhGhfIfYc

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+4 # RE: Under 200,000 copies sold of Resistance 3 in Septemberjeepman 2011-10-15 10:53
:( i love the resistance series :(

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-1 # RE: Under 200,000 copies sold of Resistance 3 in SeptemberBeansta 2011-10-15 11:56
thats because since the first resistance (which was genius btw) the rest have sucked. although RR for the PSP wasnt bad for its online multiplayer

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+1 # Sadly...hush404 2011-10-15 13:08
R3 improves quite a bit over R1/2... but people have already gotten a bad taste in their mouths from the first two.

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# wtfpapa roach 2011-10-15 15:31
resistance 3 is the most fun I've had video gaming in a long time and I play a LOT of games from different genres. I acually played it through twice wich I rarely do with any game and presitged on the multi-player. On-line is as fun as COD but different. I feel bad for an gamer hat doesn give his game a chance. I thought 1 and 2 were a litle run of the mill boring but I loved 3.

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+1 # ChimeraMightyFlea 2011-10-15 15:38
You ask why Chimera?

I suppose it depend on what Chimera you are thinking of. The Chimera of mythology or the Genetic type of chimera.

A mythological Chimera was a beast composed of a lion, snake and I think a goat. So, yes on this basis a strange name.

But a genetic Chimera is an organism that is composed of two or more genetically distinct cells.

Chimeras in this game are made form 1 (or more) humans that have been mutated my a cell (or maybe a virus - not sure) that was 'awoken' from deep underground when there was some kind of event (explosion or something) in Russia before the first game. So from this explanation, i can kinda see where the Chimera name came from.

Also, they are known collectively as Chimera, but they all have different names, Steelheads, Hoppers, Widowmakers, Grimms, etc.

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# RE: Under 200,000 copies sold of Resistance 3 in SeptemberDJ Nanashi 2011-10-15 16:45
They are called Chimera because, as MightyFlea described, they are comprised of multiple creatures, they are a hybrid.

Unlike MightyFlea, I am invoking the power of Asshat!

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-1 # ..RavenSPe 2011-10-15 16:58
I didn't buy it because of the PSN pass. I refuse to support any ridiculous online passes or DRM.

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# ...squeeks 2011-10-15 18:40
Online passes are not going away. I don't know if you have noticed but almost every new game this Xmas (Rage, R3, Batman, UC3, any EA game) is implementing some special content for new game purchases. Guess you won't be playing much.

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# RE: ..M3rror 2011-10-15 21:31
You can boycott all you want but you'll just be the 1%

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# RE: RE: ..UltimaXIX 2011-10-16 20:43
Looking at this game's poor sale figures, up against the number of PS3 owners out there, I'd say he's more like in the 99.995%, but whatever; context is so last year.

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# Too badsquueks 2011-10-15 18:35
The single player is soooo much better than R2. Looks great, gritty, aggressive AI and has full two player co-op though the entire campaign. Multiplayer is a mixed bag. I do prefer the R2 model (put 70 hrs into it). This is more like CoD. Once again single player is great.

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# RE: Under 200,000 copies sold of Resistance 3 in Septemberjoostin 2011-10-15 19:32
Chimera is significant to the creatures because they are a hybrid creature just like the chimera was.

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# no go..... 2011-10-15 21:48
the first game was way better if asked me some how the quality dropped on 2 so not sure if i should just pick this up

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# RE: Under 200,000 copies sold of Resistance 3 in SeptemberM3rror 2011-10-15 21:49
I blame Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. Sony and Microsoft are giving those games WAY to much hype. BF3 is okay-ish but FPS games are not changing honestly (Minus the Resistance and Halo series which have a much better story and add different gameplay elements). MW3 can suck a dick. I'm sorry if your a fan, but when I saw gameplay videos it's just a rehash of MW2 and that has got to be the worst online game out there. It's completely broken and unrealistic. And it doesn't even look like they bothered to update the graphics much. FPS games need to get original or just stop. It's sad to see Resistance go because it's story is amazing. I got a PS3 because of Resistance 3. I've kept up with 1 and 2, but they weren't enough to go out and spend 300$+. But once I saw R3 I shat bricks and pre-ordered and everything. Got the necklace from Gamestop and I wear it everyday. Only real gamers know that there are WAY better games than the ones overhyped.

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# ????????EzioAuditoreDaFirenz 2011-10-16 01:56
I am really confused by this article because the wikipedia page says it sold 2,000,000 units its first month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_3

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# the first was the bestslavicc 2011-10-16 12:40
Single player was good online was the best R2 was whack and i didnt get R3 and wont BF3 a few days away

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# Resistance 3Toolazytoologin 2011-10-16 21:12
I think the problem may be the box art. It's not very appealing to people who are not already existing fans of the series. I'm going to buy it eventually, but when I find the time to play through all the other holiday releases, and the previous games in the series. I need to recap on the story first :lol:
(Oh, and it also got some very critical, negative reviews)

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