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[TheDarkShape]

Inquisition is out-selling Origins at a rate of 2:1 and was just named the Associated Press' game of the year?

Clearly you should hang your heads in shame.

[Jarrett Lee]

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.

[Jarrett Lee]

'Selling better than previous games' is wonderful news, however, and simple to understand .

 

Also "exceeding expectations"

[Jarrett Lee]

Random question: How long is a game's "lifetime?"  Do you track sales forever?  Or is a game's lifetime considered the amount of time you're making new content for it?  Or is it like business software, where it's "alive" until they stop patching it?

 

It's essentially "forever" or until the product isn't for sale anywhere or we go out of business. So basically I'm saying in the long run I expect DAI will outsell DAO.

 

Can I take this as Bioware's admission that even Dragon Age can't stand against the beast that is Pokemon?

 

Well, I did get my son Pokémon Ruby for Christmas so even I have supported the competition in that sense