February 2009 NPD Numbers Give Sony Reason to Celebrate

I agree, SFIV should have had many more features and a much larger in-depth battle system. They just kept it basic to help boost sales leaving the hardcore players to perfect rediculousy hard timing combos that are just for show even if you can pull them off. The also made super and ultra combos unlinkable in many ways forcing advanced players to routinely pattern the combinations offered by the game instead of leaving room for activity.

Killzone 2 on the other hand has set a standard for originality in many ways in the online shooter gnere, some good and bad. I believe this title has opened the imagination of other developers as well to think a bit more and obscure the mainstream. Excluding the controller configuration, we all know where that came from.

I definitely agree that SF4 is way over-hyped. It's just a new engine with the same hit and damage style. What's there to root about? I think people just rated it out of reliving their old fond memories. Oh, and i have SF4. It gets boring after a few hours.

All i think of to take the disc out and put it into the console, is that it's only good for multiplayer, to beat your friends into some embarrassing defeat or showing off your dexterity.

As for KZ2.. well, it's just the best game ever. No need to dramatize here. KZ2 really is THE BEST at this time in gaming history, with its never-seen-before graphics and incredible game AI, and probably will stay at the very top until another PS3 exclusive steals its thunder with another layer of intensive graphics and better game engine (if that's even possible or noticeable for that matter, by the naked human eye). Oh, and i also have KZ2.

ST4 will had 12days in feb thats why it sold that much and for KZ2 it only had 2 days so st4 will have more sells. but in long run KZ2 will sell more

I agree, Street Fighter IV is way too overhyped. I love the Street Fighter franchise ever since Street Fighter II (yes i'm pretty old as well), but I seriously can't see why SF IV got such high scores, while they haven't changed anything actually to the gameplay.

It's still button mashing, jumping and spam moves. Single player is ridiculously poor and short compared to for example a Soul Calibur 1 or 2. Sure it has a fresh look with the new graphics engine, but this game could have been released way earlier as well. It feels as if it's not finished or something.

I find it hard to believe that reviewers rated Killzone 2 a lower score due to it's lack of story and "not bringing anything new to the genre" (wait, what!?), while Street Fighter is more generic then any other game out there, yet it got praised with 90's and 100's. A bit weird if you ask me, because if you look at the total picture of that game, it's really not worth that score when having these critical reviewer points next to you on a paper.

Don't get me wrong Street Fighter IV is a great game, it's fun to play, but everything what Street Fighter IV did, any other fighting game such as Tekken or Soul Calibur did it better. It's that I could get SF IV for just �30,-, because I wouldn't have spend �65,- on it.

Street Fighter IV came out February 17th. Killzone 2 came out February 27th. Killzone 2 sold 323,000 units in two days. I don't think there is real reason to complain about that.