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PAL Charts - Week 7, 2019
- Thread starter Bruno MB
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Andromeda sold more than double yes.
Andromeda itself was already nearly half of what ME3 sold in its first week.
Again. These are packaged sales comparisons and digital missing does skew the figures. Digital sales (which EA themselves say is approaching 50% of overall sales for them) are not counted. Nor is EA Access players. There were incentives to buy the digital ver. so I'd expect a really high digital share for the game.
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Not surprised
No one wanted a generic looking destiny/titanfall baby and not from effing bioware anyway supposed RPG masters who are coming off a dud anyway
The wrong studio used for the wrong game focussing away from potential GOLD (single player KOTOR/star wars RPG)
No one wanted a generic looking destiny/titanfall baby and not from effing bioware anyway supposed RPG masters who are coming off a dud anyway
The wrong studio used for the wrong game focussing away from potential GOLD (single player KOTOR/star wars RPG)
According to EA - "Overall, 47% of our units sold were through digital rather than physical, measured on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 over the last 12 months."
So you can assume around that much for console version.
Of course the retail numbers in this thread don't include PC digital and all the other early digital incentives through EA Access or Origin.
I'm sure they got a nice end of fiscal new Origin Premier subscriber bump out of it but I doubt many will stay.
Some will call this pun too obvious, but I'm giving you points for having the courage to post it anyway.
Further proof that this GaaS trend is just a whole lot of hot air.
Bioware's well on its way to being shutdown and I've accepted that, but can some other publisher buy the Mirror's Edge IP from EA for the love of FUCK! The first game is a classic that still needs a classic follow up, and we ain't getting it fromLord Satan Andrew Wilson anytime soon.
Bioware's well on its way to being shutdown and I've accepted that, but can some other publisher buy the Mirror's Edge IP from EA for the love of FUCK! The first game is a classic that still needs a classic follow up, and we ain't getting it from
Oof! I'm not normally the type of person to comment on sales unless a major milestone is reached by a game but damn, that is pretty bad for a game of this scale. It's by one of the biggest publishers, by one of the most loved developers and has been in development for 6 years.
Speaking of Mirror's Edge, I haven't played the sequel yet but I have little interest in doing so thanks to them going open world. All they had to do was address some of the weakest elements of the first game (Of which there were very few in my opinion). EA just loves to ruin good stuff and people.
Speaking of Mirror's Edge, I haven't played the sequel yet but I have little interest in doing so thanks to them going open world. All they had to do was address some of the weakest elements of the first game (Of which there were very few in my opinion). EA just loves to ruin good stuff and people.
Wouldn't that include catalog titles and games like Unravel 2 which would presumably skew much more digital?
Anthem had 750 people working on it nonstop for the last two years which means the last two years of development was probably around $180m.
The game was worked on in some form for five years prior to that.
This may be the most expensive video game ever made other than Red Dead 2.
So it kind of needed to do well.
And also, it's weird because outside of the graphics, there is no time in the game where the money spend shines through at all.
The game was worked on in some form for five years prior to that.
This may be the most expensive video game ever made other than Red Dead 2.
So it kind of needed to do well.
And also, it's weird because outside of the graphics, there is no time in the game where the money spend shines through at all.
This is perhaps the most poignantly true post I've read this week. It seems publishers have decided to chase the GaaS wave without understanding it's a trend with a seemingly fickle audience, judging by the way a significant portion of Fortnite install dropped the game for the latest and greatest.
"It'll be supported with updates." seems to be code for "We plan to release a really poor game." After Crackdown 3's selling less "at retail" than some local London mixtapes and Anthem bombing (again at retail) this is a worrying trend. I really hope no publisher is putting all there resources into this sector.
That is simillar to what Activision has said about BOIIII sales. Digital sale through is over 40% compared to WW2 which was around 30%.
word of mouth will get it up 1000x fold
tho's 750 probably only worked for 1 year on the version released
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Isn't it just AAA developers being awful at it? Dota 2, League of Legends, Rocket League, Overwatch, TF2, etc. show that GaaS can be fantastic.
Silly question but: is there a chart or report showing how Anthem sold? Or not public info yet?
But at the same time, Fifa sold less digitally than other EA games
It's not that its hot air, but it's an extremely limited market. There's only so many hours and money people can spend in these games, and by virtue of the system they don't want to play other games.
The GaaS trend is one of the most risk adverse industries in the planet betting on a fucking lottery and these dumbass execs will never understand that.
That is EAs full catalogue including Fifa with a lot higher physical share that something like Anthem for example.
The Playstation 4 platform is 36.5% for the last 12 months.
It varies a lot.
I think if you're being quite generous you could say that Anthem sold maybe around 100,000 copies week one in the U.K. with everything taken into account (PS4/Xbox One retail, high PS4 and in particular Xbox One digital sales & total PC sales). We probably won't ever know for sure how many copies it did actually sell W1, the console retail total is only part of the picture after all.
Still that's obviously not a good result at all. Even big Nintendo games manage more than that on one system (obviously), it's well under Andromeda which was disappointing itself and it's definitely crushed by Destiny which is the obvious comparison to make.
Still that's obviously not a good result at all. Even big Nintendo games manage more than that on one system (obviously), it's well under Andromeda which was disappointing itself and it's definitely crushed by Destiny which is the obvious comparison to make.
Is there any way to know that for sure? I kinda doubt that 750 people were working full stop on the game for two years.
This.EA Early Access/Premier did huge disservice to Anthem sales,i think.That thing is double edged sword:if the game is good-great,if not...well...EA will need some serious discussion and analysis if and how to proceed with that and future titles.
Origin Premiere is strategically unsound IMO. It wrecks their game sales and people can just un-sub after a month.
They are having a bad year financially, which is why Anthem was pushed out before fiscal year end. It's bad short-termism.
It's been in development for 6 years, is that not enough time for Bioware to put out a competent product?
I wonder about Premiere business logic,yeah.Subscription money they make on it is probably tiny comparing to massive loss of sales revenue for game like Anthem.
It should have been, but with how sparse the end product was, it was obviously rebooted a few times and Bioware had a ton of problems using Frostbite. You'd think after the issues other EA teams had using Frostbite like with ME: Andromeda, they could have just shared their tools with the Anthem team.
I mean, it's only on PC. MS are still selling games with Game Pass, at least when they're good like Forza Horizon or at least interesting with Sea of Thieves.
The game we got was probably no where in development in 6 years, and EA had a hand in why Bioware was struggling. Even then giving Bioware an few extra months would have been a lot better for the game than just rushing it anyway to miserable critical and commercial reception.
Ffs, Bioware and Star Wars was perfect.
Anthem is good, but cmon.
It's time for Andrew Wilson to go.
Anthem is good, but cmon.
It's time for Andrew Wilson to go.