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[WhoopinYourA55Mate]

I think this is first bioware game that has sold poorly not even in top 10 of month it launched in...

 

So ether all games sales were digital or dragon age could be done.

 

The top 10 best-selling games for the month are:

1. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (360, Xbox One, PS4, PS3, PC)
2. Grand Theft Auto V (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
3. Super Smash Bros. (Wii U, 3DS)
4. Madden NFL 15 (360, Xbox One, PS4, PS3)
5. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire (3DS)
6. Far Cry 4 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, PC)
7. Pokemon Omega Ruby (3DS)
8. NBA 2K15 (PS4, 360, Xbox One, PS3, PC)
9. Assassin's Creed: Unity (PS4, Xbox One, PC)
10. Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Xbox One)

 

Ok GTA,AC:U,FC4 I can understand...but seriously COD:AW...wait that franchise is still alive and interesting to people when it's always same with nothing new  ???????????????????????????? NO COMMENT!!!

[Robert Cousland]

Only games worth playing on that list are-

 

Grand Theft Auto

Smash Bros

Pokemon

 

Thats it.

[DemGeth]

Ok GTA,AC:U,FC4 I can understand...but seriously COD:AW...wait that franchise is still alive and interesting to people when it's always same with nothing new ???????????????????????????? NO COMMENT!!!

You know I played it for a bit on the free weekend and it's quite fun. But than again I hadn't touched it in a few years lol.

[keyip]

Ok GTA,AC:U,FC4 I can understand...but seriously COD:AW...wait that franchise is still alive and interesting to people when it's always same with nothing new 

 

Always sells about 20 million or something. And that's despite people desperately downvoting the thing on Metacritic *rolls eyes*

[Etragorn]

If DAI isn't ultra successful it just means the next one will be a more focused, lower budget, niche game that looks to devoted fans for sales and not the masses

If this means more Origins, and less of everything else, not a bad thing.

[Incantrix]

Apart from far cry, I have zero interest in the others. 

[pdusen]

If this means more Origins, and less of everything else, not a bad thing.

 

A lower budget likely means the game would just be more like DA2.

 

Which bothers me not at all, but I suspect would be a problem for you.

[Etragorn]

A lower budget likely means the game would just be more like DA2.
 
Which bothers me not at all, but I suspect would be a problem for you.

I'm not among those that think DA:2 was bad. I just thought DA:O was much better.

[Lebanese Dude]

 

seriously COD:AW...wait that franchise is still alive and interesting to people when it's always same with nothing new  ???????????????????????????? NO COMMENT!!!

 

How is this a surprise? I always found this reaction people to be odd.

 

You have to remember that CoD is a PvP Multiplayer focused game. People pick a certain PvP game because the gameplay fits their style. They don't want it to change very often. There is very little narrative compared to GTA, AC, BioWare games, etc..

 

Just look at MOBAs. It's the same map over and over again but it never gets old, because each game has you playing a different character in a different way against different opponents of different skill. 

 

The game remains "fresh" by injecting cosmetic and gameplay changes once in a while. Rather than release them sporadically for free or as DLC, games like CoD just release them all simultaneously packaged as a new game. Then there's graphics updates etc...

[Estel78]

 

Hey guys, I think the old NPD chart / sales thread is pretty old now so I'll just leave this here.

 

I just got access to November NPD data and amusingly it lists DAI as # 10 (because it groups the two Pokémon games together). So a lot of doom and gloom and "DAI bombed" rhetoric could have been avoided (frankly I consider 3DS games so different from us I don't see them as chart competitors but so be it).

 

Also (I can't give numbers) the delta between most of the games on the chart is *really* small. Then you factor in the date the game was released (example: Unity had an extra week of sales), price promotions and sales for Black Friday (DAI did not go on sale) and we sold very, very well! I wish the whole story had been told when the chart was published.

 

I have no doubt DAI will outsell Origins lifetime.  I'm posting this to reassure people who "worry about BioWare/DA's future". Worry not.

 

Well, i always suspected DAI to be number 11 or 12, close to top 10, so whether it's 10, 11, or 12 doesn't change the situation much - which is DAI being so low on the list simply doesn't look good. People wouldn't suddenly jump for joy seeing DAI at number 10.

 

Also, i could swear i saw DAI on sale somewhere, i think it was amazon.

 

Having said that, the information that the delta between games on the list is rather small and your positive outlook on DAI sales is at least somewhat reassuring that the situation is not as bad as feared.

[Morroian]

If DAI isn't ultra successful it just means the next one will be a more focused, lower budget, niche game that looks to devoted fans for sales and not the masses

 

Is that a pig I see flying outside my window

[Rav]

Well my fathers brother told me that DA:I earned quite a a lot of millions home

[In Exile]

If this means more Origins, and less of everything else, not a bad thing.

It means more DA2. If anything at all.

[Realmzmaster]

If this means more Origins, and less of everything else, not a bad thing.

 

It more likely means the end of Dragon Age. EA will most likely put that money to other uses like EA sports or other more profitable franchises.

[Nemesis788450]

the misconception is that people that are on the gaming sites / forums and twitch etc. represent the general populaton which is wrong - the internet/twitch/youtube nerds r usually fans of rpg's and the such while the general population rather goes for "reality based shooters" and sports game with more mass appeal....its a shame but thats how it is

 

im just wondering what sales numbers bioware / ea is expecting to consider a sequel / dai a success, but im assuming somewhere in the 3-5 mio range... but hey all the game of the year praise will certainly increase sales...

 

i assume we will quickly see how successful dai was when we get some dlc soon...

[d-boy15]

Well... you guys really expect that after the tripple letdown from bioware, many peoples still have faith in them?

Combine with the fact that EA manage to released DAI along those heavy hitter list. I'm not surprise it is not in top chart.

Give it times, the sales will raised up in to good numbers. Just don't expect GTA or COD sales.

[Dantanian]

Counting vgchartz with 2.550 million sales, that would round up to 102 million euros. 
Since I've read vgchartz doesn't account for Digital copies it's safe to say this number is easily 150 million, since most orders are most likely digital. 

If it does include digital copies, well, 102 million is still profit probably, albeit not as much as they had hoped for I guess. 

[Estel78]

Publisher gets about $20 for a retail copy.

[eempc]

Counting vgchartz with 2.550 million sales, that would round up to 102 million euros. 
Since I've read vgchartz doesn't account for Digital copies it's safe to say this number is easily 150 million, since most orders are most likely digital. 

If it does include digital copies, well, 102 million is still profit probably, albeit not as much as they had hoped for I guess. 

 

I wouldn't trust that site, their methods are as good as plucking numbers out of thin air.

 

Keep an eye out on investor.ea.com on 27 January 2015. Results for quarter 3 of fiscal year 2015 are expected on that date.

[MKfighter89]

The game is currently pushing over 2 million sold which is not bad at all if true. My question though is most of these figures are rumored to be hard copies only. I remember reading last month Bioware saying they had a large number digital copies sold. Has that number been released are even touched on yet?

[Elhanan]

I'm worried that they might make another disappointing game like DA:I

No worries; DAI is great!

[X Equestris]

The game is currently pushing over 2 million sold which is not bad at all if true. My question though is most of these figures are rumored to be hard copies only. I remember reading last month Bioware saying they had a large number digital copies sold. Has that number been released are even touched on yet?

No, I don't believe we have any idea about digital numbers, but I would imagine it's pretty high. I know a lot of people who preloaded it on console.

I'm worried that they might make another disappointing game like DA:I

While it might be disappointing for you, DAI is snapping up Editor's and Reader's choice awards for GOTY and best RPG left and right. So I think it's fair to say that most people are content with what they got.

[MKfighter89]

No, I don't believe we have any idea about digital numbers, but I would imagine it's pretty high. I know a lot of people who preloaded it on console.


 

Yea I preordered it along with 4 other friends on PC, now I'm not saying that means its over a million sold digital. I agree though that from just sites, comments, word of mouth it seems a lot of people got it digital. When they come forward with these figures I think we may be surprised on how high it really is. 

[Marshal Moriarty]

The gaming press' opinions on this (and all AAA games) are not to be trusted. They have vested interest in keeping big developers happy, and seeing money come into the industry (from people buying games), because their livelihoods are tied to the health of the industry. All AAA games that don't melt and explode when you the disc in the drive, have their figures massaged by the critics. In dire years as 2014 assuredly was, they take games like DA:I and big them up for simple virtue of not being the same level of disaster as most of the other AAA games of the year.

 

By the time The Witcher 3 finally comes out, DA:I will have faded so far out of their memory that they'll look at you like you just arrived from Mars if you mention it. Most of the critics scored DA2 favourably. They may not have spoken of it in GOTY terms, but most didn't trash it. But now years after the fact and with the benefit of feeling sure they won't be contradicted, they trash it and make out like they alwasy hated it.

 

That's just how this corrupt industry works. Critics pander to the developers and publishers to get exclusive interviews and previews etc, and they pander to the prejudices of their readers. They give the score that the developer/publisher, critic himself and the critic's readers can live with. It has to be a score that the critic is comfortable to put his name to (i.e its not full of complete and utter lies that will be attributed to him), that the publisher feels gives them a reasonable chance to meet their profit estimates, and which accords with how the gaming readers feel about the game.

 

Because if people are waiting with bated breath for a game, and you tell them its rubbish, they'll never forgive you. Most won't believe you, will tell you its your fault for not realizing a game's greatness, call you biased, say you know nothing of 'real' games etc etc etc. And even if the mood later turns on that game, they will never admit the critic was right - they'll still curse him for all manner of imagined wrongs, and insist he's still a fool. Time after time after time, critics have been burned when they dared to give scores that their fans didn't agree on, and they always walk it back.