Winckle wrote...
El_Chala_Legalizado wrote...
Maybe because a lot of ps3 user bought the pc version of the game? That's the main reason for me
That's what I did! And I'll continue with Mass Effect 3 on PC.
Me too
Sad to hear PS3 version of ME2 not selling so great :(
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#26
Posté 26 février 2011 - 07:38
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Me too
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#27
Posté 26 février 2011 - 09:35
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I've never seen a single Mass Effect advertisement where I live. Neither for ME2 on PS3 or any earlier ME release.
EA's lazy marketing are to blame, in my opinion.
EA's lazy marketing are to blame, in my opinion.
#28
Posté 26 février 2011 - 09:41
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If i owned a PS3 i would have gotten it. However, with student loans i got a badass gaming laptop. My only console is a ps2
#29
Posté 26 février 2011 - 09:44
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The demo is probably partially to blame.
I still don't understand why a company would release an old build that's obviously flawed as a demo... a demo is meant to attract customers.
I still don't understand why a company would release an old build that's obviously flawed as a demo... a demo is meant to attract customers.
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Posté 26 février 2011 - 09:55
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These numbers are flawed to say the least, NPD only covers America, does not include sales data from some retailers and totally ignores the download market. To give you an idea of just how wonderfully accurate NPD is they claimed Crysis only sold 80,000 in it's first week. To date Crysis has sold over 3 million copies worldwide, that gives you an idea of just how inaccurate NPD figures are.
I have no doubt worldwide Mass Effect 2 has sold very well, more than enough to cover it's production costs and encourage EA to commission ME 3 on the PS3 which is the most important thing for those that want the game on the PS3.
I have no doubt worldwide Mass Effect 2 has sold very well, more than enough to cover it's production costs and encourage EA to commission ME 3 on the PS3 which is the most important thing for those that want the game on the PS3.
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Posté 26 février 2011 - 10:09
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charmingcharlie wrote...
These numbers are flawed to say the least, NPD only covers America, does not include sales data from some retailers and totally ignores the download market. To give you an idea of just how wonderfully accurate NPD is they claimed Crysis only sold 80,000 in it's first week. To date Crysis has sold over 3 million copies worldwide, that gives you an idea of just how inaccurate NPD figures are.
I have no doubt worldwide Mass Effect 2 has sold very well, more than enough to cover it's production costs and encourage EA to commission ME 3 on the PS3 which is the most important thing for those that want the game on the PS3.
Mass effect is nowhere close to being the biggest seller anyway.I expect Mass effect 3 to sell 3-3.5 million copies despite launching on 3 platforms+ME2 winning plenty of GOTY awards.
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Posté 26 février 2011 - 10:14
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Not enought advertising + bugs(makes game look bad on gaming websites,magazines. And since there was no mainstream marketing then this is the only place to make game look good.) Also coming out late for full price (most people who own ps3 got a decent PC aswell, some got xbox aswell etc) so they either already got it or will get it allot cheaper for the other platforms(and without half of the bugs aswell)
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Posté 26 février 2011 - 10:23
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Wasn't it selling out or something? Where I bought mine it was one of the last copies left.
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Posté 26 février 2011 - 10:27
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ME2 on ps3 isn't appealing enough for me. I got ME & ME2 on PC, I don't see true reason to buy if for ps3, as a matter of fact I see many reasons not to buy it.
If I wasn't a student though, I'll be willing to support Bioware and buy it but I won't even play it as ME is not available.
If I wasn't a student though, I'll be willing to support Bioware and buy it but I won't even play it as ME is not available.
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 08:31
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Luan wrote...
Wasn't it selling out or something? Where I bought mine it was one of the last copies left.
It wasn't selling out... retailers just didn't buy many copies.
#36
Posté 27 février 2011 - 09:18
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I'm not really surprised nor do I really care for it. If people really wanted ME2 and didn't have an XBox 360, they probably already bought it for the PC. If you think about it, they're lucky to have sold that much since some of the sales comes from people who already got the PC/360 version... because it's Mass Effect 
. Looks like EA's scheme blew up in their face, but we'll never know for certain until after ME3.
. Looks like EA's scheme blew up in their face, but we'll never know for certain until after ME3.
#37
Posté 27 février 2011 - 09:33
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I'm glad that exploded in their money grabbing faces.
#38
Posté 27 février 2011 - 09:43
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So all that shrinking ME1 into a stupid comic for few thousands of copies...that is really sad...
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 10:51
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Remus Artega wrote...
So all that shrinking ME1 into a stupid comic for few thousands of copies...that is really sad...
This.
TBH the only reason I picked up ME2 was because I wanted the added bonus for DAO. Having said that BEFORE I picked up ME2 I went back and ordered ME1, because I hate (hate hate) playing a story driven game without having played the first part. If I hadn't been able to do that (as ps3 users) I would not have bought ME2 (even though I wanted the bonus). Reducing the game and choices to a comic and hoping people will accept that... not such a good idea. Fact is we are gamers. Most of us read comics I am sure but I dare say that most if not all of us would prefer to play the story than read it.
best move imho would have been to bundle both games, like they did for DAO. People would (I assume) pay for the whole series less reluctantly than for a single game from the middle of the series
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 10:56
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too bad.
Modifié par armass, 27 février 2011 - 10:58 .
#41
Posté 27 février 2011 - 10:58
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because more people own box 360's and wii's.
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 11:43
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charmingcharlie wrote...
These numbers are flawed to say the least, NPD only covers America, does not include sales data from some retailers and totally ignores the download market. To give you an idea of just how wonderfully accurate NPD is they claimed Crysis only sold 80,000 in it's first week. To date Crysis has sold over 3 million copies worldwide, that gives you an idea of just how inaccurate NPD figures are.
I have no doubt worldwide Mass Effect 2 has sold very well, more than enough to cover it's production costs and encourage EA to commission ME 3 on the PS3 which is the most important thing for those that want the game on the PS3.
Indeed. Plus in the end, the PS3 sales do add to the total number of worldwide ME2 sales across all platforms (and markets/distribution types) over the last 12 months, which I'm sure isn't bad at all.
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 11:58
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Let's face it ...if the sales were anywhere near their expectations they would have already brag about it...Jade Elf wrote...
charmingcharlie wrote...
These numbers are flawed to say the least, NPD only covers America, does not include sales data from some retailers and totally ignores the download market. To give you an idea of just how wonderfully accurate NPD is they claimed Crysis only sold 80,000 in it's first week. To date Crysis has sold over 3 million copies worldwide, that gives you an idea of just how inaccurate NPD figures are.
I have no doubt worldwide Mass Effect 2 has sold very well, more than enough to cover it's production costs and encourage EA to commission ME 3 on the PS3 which is the most important thing for those that want the game on the PS3.
Indeed. Plus in the end, the PS3 sales do add to the total number of worldwide ME2 sales across all platforms (and markets/distribution types) over the last 12 months, which I'm sure isn't bad at all.
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 12:15
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It's been, what, a month? Give them time to get some accurate sales figures together. 1M sales worldwide isn't likely, especially when we look at BioWare's best seller - Dragon Age - managing about 3.2m across three platforms as of Feburary 2010.Remus Artega wrote...
Let's face it ...if the sales were anywhere near their expectations they would have already brag about it...
I'd wager ME2 PS3 has done, worldwide, no more than 250k copies - 350k at a stretch. Anything higher and I'd be surprised.
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 12:26
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Please give the loyal fans the DLC the ps3 guys got. Kthnxbi
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 01:15
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Greybox_Inception wrote...
because more people own box 360's and wii's.
PS3 sales are still very high.
It's just a bad advertisement on EA side.
#47
Posté 27 février 2011 - 04:27
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All the folks crowing about the game's apparently mild reception on the PS3 should remember that ME3 won't be the last ME game. I think by the time they're ready to move on from the trilogy they'll have a nice user base going for the PS3 and they'll look like geniuses for expanding the series' accessibility.
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 05:51
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i bought the ps3 version and it sucked.....totally blew my campaign when my console freeze and the savegame corrupted.DAMN.....looking to buy mass effect 1 and 2 for pc though.
#49
Posté 27 février 2011 - 06:40
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charmingcharlie wrote...
These numbers are flawed to say the least, NPD only covers America, does not include sales data from some retailers and totally ignores the download market. To give you an idea of just how wonderfully accurate NPD is they claimed Crysis only sold 80,000 in it's first week. To date Crysis has sold over 3 million copies worldwide, that gives you an idea of just how inaccurate NPD figures are.
I have no doubt worldwide Mass Effect 2 has sold very well, more than enough to cover it's production costs and encourage EA to commission ME 3 on the PS3 which is the most important thing for those that want the game on the PS3.
1. It's completely plausible that Crysis sold 80,000 in it's first week and went on to finish at 3 million. 80,000 isn't a bad number for first week sales. You're really not establishing anything there.
2. The only real retailer not included in NPD is Wallmart, even Amazon's in NPD.
3. In general, worldwide sales are about 50% of NA sales. Which would mean the PS3 version sold only 110,000 copies.
4. Digital sales are completely irrelevant for this topic.
5. So at ~110,000 units, it can not be described as either "Selling very well".
6. EA doesn't get a choice. Microsoft holds the ME contract, and holds exclusivity for 12 months.
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Posté 27 février 2011 - 06:42
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..honestly.. it's not a bad product. If you didn't read IGN/Gamespot, and just played the demo.. and got to see the neat new lighting, along with how smooth the framerate actually was (if you've played it on the 360, you can compare as well.. it's smoother, and it has more effects.. that handily mask the stilted animation sometimes outside the "cinematic" sequences, etc.) -- if you did that, the game would have a good presentation, and be very playable.
The problem was two things - the game is expensive. It's over the usual full price of any game. And EA launched the game as a downloadable title at an extra 5 euro on top of that expensive price. This isn't going to sell an old game, no matter how much DLC you have. I understand that the production costs include setting up everything, along with the comic. And that the release includes a lot of DLC that used to cost... ridiculous amounts of money for very little.. But it's like Bioware is asking us to bear the cost right now, and that they don't expect anyone to buy the next game in the already planned trilogy.
Specially when the PC version is available for 20 euro. It's just too greedy. We also know that the game is shorter than ME1. I'll buy something else.
Then there's the fact that it's a shooter with rpg-elements. ME1 was bad enough, but at least it did something unique. It had classes, long and short range engagements, and strategic use of powers. It looked like a sci-fi movie even during the game. ME2 plays like an Unreal Engine shooter with a snap-on cover system. Even if the game has more than that, it doesn't look like anything else.
So you're asking people to buy an old game, with.. well, compared to KZ2, Uncharted 2, inFamous, etc.... dated graphics and animation.. at more than full price.
The launch also was a disaster, as usual. Sony doesn't give out info, but shares details they should have only reviewed internally. No info on what the release actually contains is forthcoming, even on request to either Sony or EA. And then when they actually launch it, the disc doesn't contain the comic, and you need to download another set of dlc that may or may not have already been paid for. While there's actually /another/ set of dlc on the store - that the game even prompts you to download.
So it's no wonder that EA lost people who just would maybe have liked to see what all the noise was about. As well as people looking for an rpg in between the... dirge of rpg-titles we're getting nowadays...
Because:
1. Not enough focus from EA on the tech and the wind-up to ME3 - and that they're truly going for a smooth multiplatform project.
2. Muddled release - technical problems with the purchase, some nasty bugs, not enough information.
3. The game looks like a shooter, and the focus on that over the rpg-elements makes the game disappear rather than stand out.
The problem was two things - the game is expensive. It's over the usual full price of any game. And EA launched the game as a downloadable title at an extra 5 euro on top of that expensive price. This isn't going to sell an old game, no matter how much DLC you have. I understand that the production costs include setting up everything, along with the comic. And that the release includes a lot of DLC that used to cost... ridiculous amounts of money for very little.. But it's like Bioware is asking us to bear the cost right now, and that they don't expect anyone to buy the next game in the already planned trilogy.
Specially when the PC version is available for 20 euro. It's just too greedy. We also know that the game is shorter than ME1. I'll buy something else.
Then there's the fact that it's a shooter with rpg-elements. ME1 was bad enough, but at least it did something unique. It had classes, long and short range engagements, and strategic use of powers. It looked like a sci-fi movie even during the game. ME2 plays like an Unreal Engine shooter with a snap-on cover system. Even if the game has more than that, it doesn't look like anything else.
So you're asking people to buy an old game, with.. well, compared to KZ2, Uncharted 2, inFamous, etc.... dated graphics and animation.. at more than full price.
The launch also was a disaster, as usual. Sony doesn't give out info, but shares details they should have only reviewed internally. No info on what the release actually contains is forthcoming, even on request to either Sony or EA. And then when they actually launch it, the disc doesn't contain the comic, and you need to download another set of dlc that may or may not have already been paid for. While there's actually /another/ set of dlc on the store - that the game even prompts you to download.
So it's no wonder that EA lost people who just would maybe have liked to see what all the noise was about. As well as people looking for an rpg in between the... dirge of rpg-titles we're getting nowadays...
Because:
1. Not enough focus from EA on the tech and the wind-up to ME3 - and that they're truly going for a smooth multiplatform project.
2. Muddled release - technical problems with the purchase, some nasty bugs, not enough information.
3. The game looks like a shooter, and the focus on that over the rpg-elements makes the game disappear rather than stand out.
