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[Had-to-say]

What frightens me is that so many gamers want to be in a war simulator.

[Canned Bullets]

Was the 1.90 million copies sold number over the first week or over the course of a few months? How many did ME1 sell in the time it took for ME2 to get 1.90 million copies sold?

[WellBig D]

Canned Bullets wrote...

Was the 1.90 million copies sold number over the first week or over the course of a few months? How many did ME1 sell in the time it took for ME2 to get 1.90 million copies sold?

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Me 1 sold 2.30 million

[tonnactus]

Chim3ra wrote...

http://www.1up.com/n...ct-2-week-sales

Mass Effect made around 2 million sales in first week.

Shipped not sold.

[Haventh]

Had-to-say wrote...

What frightens me is that so many gamers want to be in a war simulator.

To each their own. People are different, not everyone likes to read a lot of text and RP. I stick around in communities on the internet where story / RP interested people are. As for other communities, i mostly don't bother , it's boring *yawn* (it's funny, i ask my friends "how can you play that, it's just point and shoot" (shooters), then they ask "how can you read all that text, pretend you play another person", i say "yeah, you made your point, people are different, lets just accept it, and go spot the pretty flowers on the beach"). 

[Kriztaen]

I am an Xbox fanboy...I would never allow CoD anywhere near my baby.



I am one of the few Fanboys of the 360 that will never allow ANY FPS-WW2 games cross over the threshold of my Condo's front door, let alone allow them to heave their disease ridden discs onto my disc-tray.



The only WW2 based game allowed to enter my 360 is The Saboteur. That is all. CoD can suck on my cod-piece.

[Epic777]

Hold up, are people crazy? If me2 sold 2 million at the price of $49.99 the game has made ninety-nine million nine hundred eighty thousand dollars, while I am sure this is not absolutely accurate but as a community wipe the lies off our faces, if this game has sold millions which I am certain it did it's a success.

[Thompson family]

I am logically compelled to point out here that ME1 didn't pull the numbers either.

For whatever that's worth. The ME series is a hit and a critical darling, but it is not a blockbuster.

Modifié par Thompson family, 17 août 2010 - 08:47 .

[theelementslayer]

Celrath wrote...

Epic777 wrote...

Hold up, are people crazy? If me2 sold 2 million at the price of $49.99 the game has made ninety-nine million nine hundred eighty thousand dollars, while I am sure this is not absolutely accurate but as a community wipe the lies off our faces, if this game has sold millions which I am certain it did it's a success.

Wow so you mean all those people worked for free.

The average video game costs only like 50 mil to produce. So ya they made a profit 

[Epic777]

Celrath wrote...

Epic777 wrote...

Hold up, are people crazy? If me2 sold 2 million at the price of $49.99 the game has made ninety-nine million nine hundred eighty thousand dollars, while I am sure this is not absolutely accurate but as a community wipe the lies off our faces, if this game has sold millions which I am certain it did it's a success.

Wow so you mean all those people worked for free.

No

My point is me2 pulled enough numbers to be called a success from a business point of view, and yes, yes I am sure that between the marketing and creation of the game, the whole project cost ea billions......

[ReveurIngenu]

Mass Effect 1 sold around 400k copies more than Mass Effect 2, yet it would seem Mass Effect 2 was more heavily advertised. 1.9million certainly is not a bad number, but comparing to how much 1 sold with less advertising makes 2 seem to be a bit of a disappointment in terms of sales.

Of course, you have to factor in the pact that 1 was out longer than 2....But I think EA was hoping it'd outsell 1 pretty quickly, and not be so far behind after all this time.

Modifié par ReveurIngenu, 17 août 2010 - 08:52 .

[theelementslayer]

ReveurIngenu wrote...

Mass Effect 1 sold around 400k copies more than Mass Effect 2, yet it would seem Mass Effect 2 was more heavily advertised. 1.9million certainly is not a bad number, but comparing to how much 1 sold with less advertising makes 2 seem to be a bit of a disappointment in terms of sales.

Again this has been brought up alot. ME1 was out a lot longer then ME2, plus saw a nice jump in sales when ME2 was released. Also we dont know the numbers, so stop thinking you do. Some sites say 2 mil, others say 1.7 others say 6.6 (Though I know this is wrong). I dont think you work for MEs marketing division so I dont think you know the numbers. Stop speculating, and saying you have facts when you just dont know

[ReveurIngenu]

theelementslayer wrote...

ReveurIngenu wrote...

Mass Effect 1 sold around 400k copies more than Mass Effect 2, yet it would seem Mass Effect 2 was more heavily advertised. 1.9million certainly is not a bad number, but comparing to how much 1 sold with less advertising makes 2 seem to be a bit of a disappointment in terms of sales.

Again this has been brought up alot. ME1 was out a lot longer then ME2, plus saw a nice jump in sales when ME2 was released. Also we dont know the numbers, so stop thinking you do. Some sites say 2 mil, others say 1.7 others say 6.6 (Though I know this is wrong). I dont think you work for MEs marketing division so I dont think you know the numbers. Stop speculating, and saying you have facts when you just dont know

The numbers are taken from VGChartz, which I know are not completely accurate but still, they give you a general idea.  I don't pretend to have exact numbers.  General ballpark numbers are largely enough.

[Thompson family]

ReveurIngenu wrote...

Mass Effect 1 sold around 400k copies more than Mass Effect 2, yet it would seem Mass Effect 2 was more heavily advertised. 1.9million certainly is not a bad number, but comparing to how much 1 sold with less advertising makes 2 seem to be a bit of a disappointment in terms of sales.

Of course, you have to factor in the pact that 1 was out longer than 2....But I think EA was hoping it'd outsell 1 pretty quickly, and not be so far behind after all this time.

Someone should mention, also, that ME2 seems to have sold a fair amount of DLC, making it more profitable. I wish we had some figures on that. "Bring Down the Sky" was free, IIRC, and Pinnacle station only cost about $5.

[Jebel Krong]

oh here we go, the usual retards are out in force...

[Thompson family]

Celrath wrote...

ReveurIngenu wrote...

Mass Effect 1 sold around 400k copies more than Mass Effect 2, yet it would seem Mass Effect 2 was more heavily advertised. 1.9million certainly is not a bad number, but comparing to how much 1 sold with less advertising makes 2 seem to be a bit of a disappointment in terms of sales.

Of course, you have to factor in the pact that 1 was out longer than 2....But I think EA was hoping it'd outsell 1 pretty quickly, and not be so far behind after all this time.

Could the lower sales have something to do with it being available on pc and xbox at the same time?

The bottom falling out of the world's economy probably had a whole lot more to do with it. Game sales are down across the board.

[Nicodemus]

Porting it to the PS3 is a sensible business move. The PS3 has a lot of gamers who solo play RPGs, whereas most xbox users are usually to be found buying multiplayer fps games. EA is not daft, if they can wring out some more cash from ME2 by porting it over they will do. ANY game manufacturer would do the same if they thought they could.



It's all about maximising profit and they've identified a potential market so they are going for it.

[Dinkamus_Littlelog]

Nobody knows the numbers exactly, and youll never get Bioware or EA to admit ME2 was a disappointment for them from a sales perspective.



However, one this is clear. ME2 was a hugely hyped, massively overrated game that turned out to be nowhere near a top 10 release game. Just because we dont know the exact numbers doesnt mean we cant see that ME2 just cant compete with titles like Red Dead Redemption for example.



Youd think with all that mainstream dumbing down they did, they wanted success that was appraoching that level, but I guess we wont know for certain.



Still, they are clearly very proud of the host of unprofessional perfect scores the game receieved from "professional critics", giving them an "epic" metacritic score at least.

[VanTesla]

I bought ME on PC/360 for collectors edition.



Forget that we do not know how many of those where sold.

[Synobal]

Most sites that post sale charts are only looking at the console releases, the PC release is much harder to track due to digital download services like steam.

[AL JA]

The 2 million sold was only on xbox 360. Here is some useful data http://www.vgchartz....me.php?id=28815

[Wolverfrog]

2 million is pretty darn good, in my opinion. Especially when you consider the droves who must have bought the game via Digital Distribution.