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Resistance 2 arriving this autumn

Insomniac’s PS3 sequel to arrive later this year, with rumours of a demo this July

The keen eyes over at UK consumer site Spong have spotted an almost missable sentence in a recent press release from celebrated developer Insomniac confirming the arrival of its FPS sequel later this year.

It reads: "Insomniac Games is currently developing Resistance 2, which will release this fall, exclusively for PS3."

The news follows yesterday’s developer video, which pegged July 8th as an important date for the title. Spong now speculates that the date might represent the planned release of a demo.

Resistance: Fall of Man was one of PS3’s most celebrated launch titles – though it was later embroiled in some Church-related controversy owing to its depiction of Manchester Cathedral.

Insomniac is also the studio behind much-loved PS3 hit Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction.

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So its Gears 2 vs Resistance 2

posted by Chuck Norris Feb 22, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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Not being a fanboy or anything but I think Gears of War 2 stands at a better chance of not only again selling 4.5million copies but perhaps even doubling that figure...

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Re: So its Gears 2 vs Resistance 2

posted by Feb 22, 2008 at 6:25 pm
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Chuck, that last comment made you sound exactly like a fanboy. What does GOW2 have to do with this article? Theres other sites for this nonsense, I suggest you join them.

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Re: So its Gears 2 vs Resistance 2

posted by Roger Moore Feb 22, 2008 at 7:02 pm
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Of course GOW2 will double its sales - the Xbox360 user base will have more than doubled so it won't be difficult.

As for this so-called "battle", I think both titles will have to bow at the feet of Killzone 2...

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Re: So its Gears 2 vs Resistance 2

posted by wasim Feb 22, 2008 at 7:08 pm
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Resistance will easily sell 5 million copies worldwide. R2 can infact sell 5 million in europe alone . As for x360 that is not possible since by the release of r2 ps3 will have 2x/3x the userbase as x360. 60% of x360s purchased in europe were traded in for either wii/ps3.R2 will sell 5 million in europe and another 4/5million in USA.

Gears 2 will sell only 400 000 /500000 in europe and 4m/5m in USA.

so resistance has every chance of selling 2x as much as Gears worldwide since x360 doesnt exist in europe/japan. It used to exist in UK but after the demise of HD DVD it is finished.

People if you are unaware let me remind you that PS3 outsold x360 last month (january) in UK. It ran neck and neck with x360 in XMAS. x360's lone battleground UK has now fallen and ps3 sales have increased by 2x after the Blu Ray victory

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@roger

posted by wasim Feb 22, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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It is not waranteed that GOW2 will sell more than GOW1 since 60% of the x360s purchased in europe have already been traded in for either ps3/wii.

DMC4 sold 2x as much on ps3 vs x360. any multiplat game starting last august,2007 have sold more on the ps3. x360's userbase in europe has shrunk to 3 million from 4.5 million last year.

Both Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 will sell more than GOW2 in terms of worldwide sales.

PS3 went on to beat x360 in USA last month too.By the time of KZ2 launch PS3 will have have sold 2x/3x as much in europe.

I agree with you though KZ2 will make anything shiver.Uncharted makes GOW2 look like a wii game so no need to even mention KZ2

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@ wasim

posted by Zed Zee Feb 22, 2008 at 8:43 pm
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I'm not a fanboy of any of the consoles, but I assume that you have some hard figures to back up your wild insinuations of 60% traded in X360s in Europe?!

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Re: @ wasim

posted by Dr Zee Feb 22, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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Yeah they got the information from the magic fairy.

And how does a DVD format war influence a game console war , just look at UMD movies, and which of the three next-gen console is selling most, the one without DVD playback.

Why can't everyone just get along, we all like different things.

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Re: @ wasim

posted by Willypiggy Feb 23, 2008 at 3:27 pm
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This will be interesting, I have played resistance 1 and will most likely get 2 however, only a couple of my friends have PS3's with the majority owning 360's and of all the people with 360's only one will be getting gears 2. I personally think that they will sell equal or Resistance 2 will win, I don't think GoW2 will win.

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Re: @ wasim

posted by _-MrT-_ Feb 25, 2008 at 9:39 am
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Win? Win what?

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