And what is the fantasy based on? You didn't answer my question. Usually people say that in the context of them lowballing PC figures due to not considering digital download. Apparently that's also true of NPD.
vgchartz is a website that makes wild ass estimates that are frequently wrong.
NPD is a market research firm that is trusted by the industry. They do not include digital sales but there is certainly much more reason to trust their reports of physical numbers than vgchartz.
The same is true for all those other games.All that said, the game's been out for less than a month, and I find it highly unlikely that it only sold 600k copies, I know I went digital, and I'm sure others did as well.
The same is true for all those other games.
Unless digital sales were disproportionately high for DA3 alone, it still underperformed just about everything released last month.
Some of those games. For example, apparently SSB sold 700k-ish on Wii U + 3DS. With digital sales, DA:I might have outsold that (which would put it at #4 on the list if everyone else had PC 0 sales).
The NDP list doesn't have, after all, all games that had PC releases (though many did).
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Pokemon sold in the millions I thought, so I can't understand how Smash Bros would be sitting at 700k on that chart, or how DAI wouldn't be on the chart at 600k if Smash did only pull 700k.
The sky is falling the sky is falling.
Crap, first rifts, now this? 
I was only considering like games (AAA multi-platform), not handheld or Nintendo games (that's almost its own market), and not all and sundry that gets put on Steam or wherever.The NDP list doesn't have, after all, all games that had PC releases (though many did).
I was only considering like games (AAA multi-platform), not handheld or Nintendo games (that's almost its own market), and not all and sundry that gets put on Steam or wherever.
But then it's impossible to know how it did. Does GTA V count despite no PC release? If SSB was #4 on the list with 700k units, if DA:I with PC is at (say) 750K that would make it circa #3 without digital sales for the other titles. Does that matter? It's all speculation
The same is true for all those other games.
Unless digital sales were disproportionately high for DA3 alone, it still underperformed just about everything released last month.
Take into account when said games were released as well. DAI only had 9 days worth of sales in November, whereas something like Smash Bros was released on the 3rd of November. There's a lot of elements in play here.
GTA, Halo, and FC4 were all released on the 18th.Take into account when said games were released as well. DAI only had 9 days worth of sales in November, whereas something like Smash Bros was released on the 3rd of November. There's a lot of elements in play here.
DAI fell short of FC4, Halo and GTA in terms of physical copies sold, that's a fair assessment. The rest is conjecture until we see real numbers, with everythin else taken into account.
Edit: By real numbers I mean digital sales, and PC numbers included as well.
GTA, Halo, and FC4 were all released on the 18th.Yes, some games on the list were available longer (AC was the week prior), but DA still fell short of all its peers.
I'd find it hard to believe DAI didn't sell comparable amounts to FC4. How big is that franchise?
I'd find it hard to believe DAI didn't sell comparable amounts to FC4. How big is that franchise?
Far Cry 3 sold around ten million copies which is probably significantly over DAO and DA2 combined.
Wow! I didn't realise the franchise was that big especially after FC2.
Far Cry 3 sold around ten million copies which is probably significantly over DAO and DA2 combined.
Wow. I had no idea.
*meh*
I don't know anyone that bought a physical copy of the game.
Everyone I know that purchased DAI bought it digitally.
*anecdotal I know*
Weird *totally random didn't know i was reading this thread* , husband just popped up to say but that DAI was the #4 seller on PS4 for Nov.
@OP, I think we should be more worried if this game is selling extremely well. RPG games in general do not sell very well. Look at The Witcher 2, todate they have sold how many copies? About 2~3 million?
For a game to sell well, it must appeal to the masses, it must be more main steam. The 1st criteria for that imho is make it more action packed, more streamline. Or make it a sandbox RPG like TES where anything goes. The current audience that they have can only sell about 5 million copies. They want more, they have to reach out to those who are not currently fans of the franchise and that means change, changes that could be so extreme that we may not like.
If Bioware tries to appeal to the masses, they will probably do a lot of things that will make some fans furious, they will turn into Rage Demons and set the world ablaze. Actually... some of the changes they made already made a lot of traditionalist furious; "It aint RPG if it does not meet every subjective preference of mine" they cried.
Serious question, How well did origins sell in its first month?
Regardless, DA:I will catch up quickly especially to AC:Unity. No matter how much I loved the AC series, they totally failed with Unity. It will experience a decline of sales if they keep putting up such a mediocre release (those bugs even way worse than what we are encountering with DA:I and its story is not even that great).
Serious question, How well did origins sell in its first month?
NPD says 362,000 on Xbox 360 in the United States.
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