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[Titan1978]

ME2 Sold 2.2 million copies on the first week itself. 6-8 weeks into March/April - I', pretty sure they would've sold at least that number!!! 5 million is still a fantastic figure for any game. Sure its no COD but its still huge!!!

[hex23]

I don't find this hard to believe honestly, if you count console and PC sales. "ME2" was on Direct2Drive's best seller list for almost 2 months straight, and on other sites like Impulse for almost as long. Plus it's been on Amazon's top 100 best selling games since it came out.

They moved a ton of units across both platforms.

Modifié par hex23, 19 avril 2010 - 09:11 .

[TJSolo]

Too bad the number is representative of shipped units, not sales.

[Annihilator27]

Kalfear wrote...

Errr someone help me out here on two things

First the article says 6.6 not over 7 million so WTF the OP talking about and why is it in PS3 news?

This makes no sence

Thats what I was thinking lol.

[TomY90]

To be honest I am not suprised Mass Effect 2 has a world record for being the best selling game ever in January.



It also is extremely well regarded by the press and the general public. It also caters for two big markets shooting and RPG.



It is a companies dream come true aswell as the franchise items available off it. e.g. the mass effect toys, books, potential film maybe coming and the cartoons.

[Destructo-Bot]

Amethyst Deceiver wrote...

if thats true, here is a reality check for all the forumites:

higher sales = even less of a significance any of your "you should have done ____ from ME1 instead of ____ we have in ME2" wishes.

as far as the company is concerned, benchmark sales = "we did everything right"

sorry to burst yur bubbles

Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but the orginal drives people to the sequel. ME2 did so well because ME1 was well received.

Good first game = many people getting the sequel
Bad first game = poor sales for the sequel

So the only thing that a great opening week for a game sequel means is that you have a lot of fans from the original coming back plus new customers that marketing (including word of mouth from the original owners) brought in. Since NOBODY KNOWS what the 2nd game is like the changes in the sequel will not affect sales so greatly at first. You'll see the effect of the changes in ME2 in the reception of ME3.

Proof of concept: Modern Warfare 2
Sales driven by the original MW and marketing. If MW2 came before MW I can feel confident saying that the sequel would not have done so well.

Try to be less of a jackass please? Your opinion means about **** all to the rest of us.

Modifié par Destructo-Bot, 20 avril 2010 - 02:18 .

[hex23]

Destructo-Bot wrote...

Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but the orginal drives people to the sequel. ME2 did so well because ME1 was well received.

Good first game = many people getting the sequel
Bad first game = poor sales for the sequel

So the only thing that a great opening week for a game sequel means is that you have a lot of fans from the original coming back plus new customers that marketing (including word of mouth from the original owners) brought in. Since NOBODY KNOWS what the 2nd game is like the changes in the sequel will not affect sales so greatly at first. You'll see the effect of the changes in ME2 in the reception of ME3.

Proof of concept: Modern Warfare 2
Sales driven by the original MW and marketing. If MW2 came before MW I can feel confident saying that the sequel would not have done so well.

Try to be less of a jackass please? Your opinion means about **** all to the rest of us.

Nah I disagree. The sequel is so much more successful than "ME1", and so much more crtically acclaimed, it doesn't make much sense to assume a significant amount of that is due to "ME1". That's like saying a gold selling record that received good reviews is the reason a group's sophomore album sold 10 million copies and got great reviews. It doesn't add up.

[Destructo-Bot]

It does add up. You automatically get most of the fanbase from the first one if it's good plus whatever marketing can draw in. Brands grow; if ME1 bombed and was universally panned, do you think interest would be even remotely as high for ME2?

That guy was basically stating that ME2 is weighed by itself completely apart from ME1, even when gameplay is largely an unknown beforehand. That a sequel that is good by itself is not benefited by a good original. Bollocks.

Modifié par Destructo-Bot, 20 avril 2010 - 04:57 .

[screwoffreg]

Did we ever figure out if that figure was shipped or actually sold? There is a huge difference...

[Bluko]

I'd say the number of actual copies of Mass Effect 2 sold in the U.S. is probably around 2.5 million for the Xbox 360 and maybe like 1 million for the PC. Which is pretty good all things considered.

The game is for sure making Bioware a profit. But to say the game is a massive success is probably incorrect. Generally you need to sell like 4 million copies on a console like the Metal Gear Solid games before you can start bragging.

[screwoffreg]

Bluko wrote...

I'd say the number of actual copies of Mass Effect 2 sold in the U.S. is probably around 2.5 million for the Xbox 360 and maybe like 1 million for the PC. Which is pretty good all things considered.

The game is for sure making Bioware a profit. But to say the game is a massive success is probably incorrect. Generally you need to sell like 4 million copies on a console like the Metal Gear Solid games before you can start bragging.

Yeah, I'd be very surprised if a non-Square RPG blew into 7,000,000 sales within a few months from release.  That'd be a hell of a success and while I think that Bioware may eventually get high numbers, it takes time.

[Annihilator27]

http://xbox360.ign.c.../1107064p1.html

Who has not bought this glorious game? lol

Modifié par annihilator27, 20 juillet 2010 - 01:50 .

[MassEffect762]

Amethyst Deceiver wrote...

Dick Delaware wrote...

Amethyst Deceiver wrote...

if thats true, here is a reality check for all the forumites:

higher sales = even less of a significance any of your "you should have done ____ from ME1 instead of ____ we have in ME2" wishes.

as far as the company is concerned, benchmark sales = "we did everything right"

sorry to burst yur bubbles

I'm not sure about that. You may be right, so I don't know, but if millions of people have already bought the second game, doesn't that give the company even more incentive to make your choices matter in the third?

Now, this might be wishful thinking on my part, and I still remain skeptical until ME3 is finally released, but it's something worth thinking about.

im not talking about carrying over in-game choices.

im talking about the countless complaints threads of how things from ME1 should have been better or kept for ME2, instead of ME2 making whatever new changes.

if changes happen from one title to its sequel and the sales reach a benchmarkl status, as far as the company is concerned, those changes were the right ones to make. no amount of "fan feedback" is going to change that

Big problem with that theory. You're forgetting the MANY who bought the second based solely on the first.

HA! just noticed the necro

Modifié par MassEffect762, 20 juillet 2010 - 02:21 .

[Mecha Tengu]

http://en.wikipedia....ation_in_Canada



derp

[Throw_this_away]

Titan1978 wrote...

Has Mass Effect really sold almost 7 million copies? This makes Mass Effect the "heaviest" franchise in Bioware's stable IMO - wow - 7 million = almost 350 million dollars in sales!!!
Bioware and EA must be laughing all the way to the bank!!!


http://ps3.ign.com/a.../1083726p1.html

6.6 million... not so.  If that were the case Bioware/EA would be letting everyone know this with bells on long ago. 

Last month or so EA was talking 1.6 million (or was it 1.4) in their yearly budget.  I know the price has dropped, and sales may have bumped a bit as a result, but I think someone failed to do his homework when writing the article.  I remember the 6.6 million number getting on wikipedia a few months back... but it was promptly taken down.  

The complainers can rest easy again knowing that Bioware may still listen to some of what they say (as long as it makes ME3 play more like a shooter... suckers!!!). 

[javierabegazo]

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