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[Mudface67]

According to a http://www.vg247.com...evelop/]Bioware press release[/url], ME2 has shipped 6.6 million copies-

BIOWARE FOUNDERS TO KEYNOTE AT
DEVELOP IN BRIGHTON 2010

BioWare founders and video games
legends Ray Muzyka (Group General Manager of the BioWare Group and
Senior Vice President Electronic Arts) and Greg Zeschuk (Group Creative
Officer BioWare Group, Vice President Electronic Arts) will present the
keynote at this summer’s Develop in Brighton Conference – 13-15 July
2010.
BioWare, respected industry-wide for
its high quality, emotionally engaging and rich, deep cinematic games,
has numerous highly anticipated upcoming titles including Star Wars: The
Old Republic, a story-rich massively multiplayer online (MMO) title in
development at BioWare Austin, in collaboration with partner LucasArts.
Muzyka and Zeschuk are the brains
behind an already vast portfolio of iconic video games titles, including
Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, MDK, Dragon Age,
Mass Effect and, of course, its 6.6 million-selling sequel Mass Effect
2, which was released earlier this year.
Muzyka and Zeschuk co-founded the
award-winning development studio in 1995, operating BioWare successfully
for more than 10 years, leading to a private equity investment by
Elevation Partners in 2005. BioWare was then acquired by Electronic Arts
in 2007.
ENDS

Is this correct or a typo?  According to NPD the 360 version sold around 1 million in the US in its first month, and VGChartz (yeah, I know, but they're probably not far off given they pinch data from all over the place) has the total 360 sales at about 1.7 million worldwide. If the 6.6 million shipped an accurate figure, there are either several million copies
still on store shelves, or the PC version has sold spectacularly well.

Can anyone from Bioware confirm the figure? And if so, can they give figures for the PC version?

Modifié par Mudface67, 15 avril 2010 - 05:04 .

[ImperialOperative]

VGchartz



lolz



rufflz

[Blk_Mage_Ctype]

Good now port it to other platforms and make an even bigger profit!

[Mudface67]

Aye, they're complete charlatans, but judging by NPD I don't think they're too far off with the 360 figure in this case.

[GreenSoda]

6.6 million ?

Perhaps across PC & 360 and counting *both* games -but ME2 alone ?

ME2 was/is a very successful game -just not that successful. That would be Halo/GTA/MW territory.

Modifié par GreenSoda, 15 avril 2010 - 05:24 .

[harazal]

Stats on their own don't mean anything. The guy above me, mudface, is taking the usual forumite approach and going for hyperbole, they can't put out a bald face lie in a public statement. However, selling can mean different things. Remember as well that the NPD charts and VG chartz are terrible indicators of what was sold and when, but 6.6 million units shipped and sold to distributators around the world is possible.



How many units were bought by end users though, thats the key question, and no company will reveal that, because a clever competitor would be able to work out to, an accurate degree, profit and loss on the game.



Just be pleased the game did well, and cemented the franchise as a major seller.

[javierabegazo]

Lol, if you were to put any Mass Effect game disc in the Wii, it would just explode

[RinpocheSchnozberry]

javierabegazo wrote...

Lol, if you were to put any Mass Effect game disc in the Wii, it would just explode

Love scene.  Wii-Remote.  Think it over.


Come to the dark side.

[Dethateer]

Sexbox is a different console.

[Chala]

wow! that is a proof that (after all) mass effect 2 was more succesful than the first one, but, maybe because is the 2° of a very well-know game and for that a lot of people bought it

Modifié par El_Chala_Legalizado, 15 avril 2010 - 05:32 .

[pacer90]

ME3 on the Wii.



"Ah yes, Reaper" quotes with full motion finger wagging.

[Blk_Mage_Ctype]

javierabegazo wrote...

Lol, if you were to put any Mass Effect game disc in the Wii, it would just explode

Really? Cause I just tried it and all I got was a Disc Read Error. 

Besides, if they did it using the old KOTOR Engine, I bet they could do it.

[Spinnazie]

That Wii box art is sick.

[uzivatel]

Blk_Mage_Ctype wrote...

javierabegazo wrote...

Lol, if you were to put any Mass Effect game disc in the Wii, it would just explode

Really? Cause I just tried it and all I got was a Disc Read Error. 

Besides, if they did it using the old KOTOR Engine, I bet they could do it.

The disc read error just saved your console and maybe even your life... 

[Mightyg]

Almost plugged in the overlord.

[Shadowrend]

6.6 mil? Thats how much money they got. But if you remove the expenses of making, you will end up with 500000-1mil $.



Compare that to 1.2 billion dollars that Call of Duty MW2 got.

[pacer90]

Shadowrend wrote...

6.6 mil? Thats how much money they got. But if you remove the expenses of making, you will end up with 500000-1mil $.

Compare that to 1.2 billion dollars that Call of Duty MW2 got.

It sold 2 million copies in the first week. Unless they are charging $3 a game it's more than $6 million in sales.



6.6 million copies isn't unreasonable guys, you don't hear as much about RPG's because the players aren't on Xbox live pissing everyone off with heartbeat sensors and dual models.

[Blk_Mage_Ctype]

Spin****e wrote...

That Wii box art is sick.

It's actually just the Japanese ME1 360 Boxart that I spliced with a Wii Box, behold...

uzivatel wrote...

The disc read error just saved your console and maybe even your life... 

It must've been a Fail-Safe Nintendo built into the hardware so that they couldn't be sued when their unsuspecting fans attempt to play Mass Effect.
Afterall, anybody who's played Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition must've been itching to try out ME1 with IR Pointing.

[Wolverfrog]

Why does Japan get a good cover?

[Onyx Jaguar]

if COD4 can work on the Wii so can Mass Effect.



Wait a minute nevermind, COD4 worked onthe 360, Mass Effect didn't



OH SHI

[Onyx Jaguar]

Damn that cover art is sweet...

[Blk_Mage_Ctype]

Wolverfrog wrote...

Why does Japan get a good cover?

I dunno, but that's why I chose their cover art for the Wii Box. Much more awesome, right?

[askanec]

Where did VGChartz get that 6.6m figure from? As far as I'm aware, Bioware has not released total sales figure, beyond x copies sold for y console within z weeks and vague statements like "game sales has exceeded our expectations".



Unless Bioware confirms sales figure (either through press releases, interviews with gaming sites, or figures from their annual corporate report), I'll be quite skeptical of accepting something as fact simply because "I read it on the Internet".

[Terror_K]

That number is very much possible, given how much it sold in those first few weeks, and that it still appears in top 10 charts quite often. It has been roughly two and a half months now since then after all.