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[Twigg4075]

The game sold 4 million copies in 4 months, it took Bioshock 1 four years to sell 4 million copies.

All things considered, Bioshock 1 was an unknown and it released about a year after the 360 launched. How many 360's were out in the wild at that point? And you can't say that Infinite's immense initial sales were directly based on the first two games.

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[Pitty]

All things considered, Bioshock 1 was an unknown and it released about a year after the 360 launched. How many 360's were out in the wild at that point? And you can't say that Infinite's immense initial sales were directly based on the first two games.

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About 2 years after the 360 launched, and it was the followup to a critically acclaimed series, not to mention won a bunch of game of the year awards. Bioshock didn't take anyone by surprise and to say so is simply revisionist.

And no, you can't say that since Bioshock 2 was .

[Twigg4075]

I couldn't disagree more about Bioshock 2.

I also couldn't disagree with you more that console gamers had no idea what System Shock was so it was a non-factor.

I still remember when the videos started leaking out during the MM days. Everyone was talking about how cool it looked and how they hadn't seen anything like it before. There was a mystery about it too because no one seemed to know what the gameplay would be like, how the little sisters factored in, etc. But on the same token because it was a new IP people were initially hesitant about getting it. It wasn't until it was out for quite done time before the buzz really started picking up.

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