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Was Titanfall on Xbone a Flop?

Yes. 164 30.31%
 
No. 222 41.04%
 
It sold pretty average. 150 27.73%
 
Total:536
Barozi on 18 April 2014

Certainly not. Software-wise it's a monster. The fastest selling next gen game so far and it beat holiday launch juggernauts such as CoD Ghosts on PS4 and X1, NSMBU and the bundled Nintendoland.


As a system seller it appeared to do not as good during launch but hell the game was known from the beginning and that was a huge reason why the Xbox One sold as much as it did during launch.
Without it I wouldn't be surprised if Xbox One numbers were 1 million lower by this time.



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GameAnalyser on 18 April 2014

It just needed an updated engine, not an old one as 2005's Source.



Danman27 on 18 April 2014

How could titanfall possibly be considered a flop? It is, by definition, a hit. Now, it didn't sell as well as some xbox fanboys thought, but they had some pretty outlandish predictions. My favorite prediction was someone saying they think it will sell 6 million units total on the xbox one. Or as you probably know, more than 2 million more than total number of xbox ones that had been sold as of titanfall's launch.



game_on on 18 April 2014
mutantclown said:
Not all flop, but still a failure. The franchise is DEAD. From the moment they bet on exclusivity they killed the franchise. Now it's confirmed. It will disappear just like Medal of Honor (reboot), Brink, Rage, etc etc.

Every franchise has to die some day and releasing it on 3 different platforms hardly makes it an exclusive. Besides, the Mass Effect franchise also started as an 'exclusive', just to name an example that did work out just fine.



Madword on 18 April 2014
Landguy said:
Madword said:

Unfortunately with AAA games there are different expectations these days internally what is a flop and what is not.

From a gamers point of view, Using old standard thinking that we've used for quite a while, 1 million in 1 month would be considered very good. But as we know from the sales of Tomb Raider, where they had sold 3 million in a month, they considered that *bad* that it hadn't sold 4 million. 

So first thing is that the numbers we think are good are not necessarily good in terms of the sales the companies expect.

As far as we know the team working on TF was pretty small, MS paid for exclusivity and by the looks of things paid a lot of marketing (which is extremely expensive), so it may well be that even though EA/RS will be disappointed with the sales (especially 360), they may be happy with it, because many of the associated costs of releasing a game have been paid for by MS.

As far as MS is concerned, then its not been great at all, to bundle the game for free (for what was considered best game ever by the gaming press), and for it to bot push massive amounts of hardware, seems bad. For them to bundle it for free and for price drops to happen in UK/USA - very very bad.

So overall I think it will be like this:

EA: Generally happy, but will not do exclusivity again.
RS: Not happy with EA due to exclusivity, but happy with the sales.
MS: Not happy at all.

PS- as for the press they should have been ashamed of themselves how they handled the whole Titanfall review stuff.

Why would the press be ashamed of themselves?  By the overwhelming majority of the feedback from those that actually own the game, it delivered what almost all critics proclaimed.  How can the critics be held accountable if the game hasn't met the hype (mostly by internet fanboys) that it would sell 2-3X what it has.  Most people can clearly see that you are right on the Bolded, but claiming that your opinion that the game is not good doesn't make the reviews invalid.

I didnt say the game wasn't good, but its not the game that most of the press were trying to push down peoples throats. The OTT hype came from the press...so yes i do think they should be ashamed of themselves.



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BMaker11 on 18 April 2014
Landguy said:
Madword said:

Unfortunately with AAA games there are different expectations these days internally what is a flop and what is not.

From a gamers point of view, Using old standard thinking that we've used for quite a while, 1 million in 1 month would be considered very good. But as we know from the sales of Tomb Raider, where they had sold 3 million in a month, they considered that *bad* that it hadn't sold 4 million. 

So first thing is that the numbers we think are good are not necessarily good in terms of the sales the companies expect.

As far as we know the team working on TF was pretty small, MS paid for exclusivity and by the looks of things paid a lot of marketing (which is extremely expensive), so it may well be that even though EA/RS will be disappointed with the sales (especially 360), they may be happy with it, because many of the associated costs of releasing a game have been paid for by MS.

As far as MS is concerned, then its not been great at all, to bundle the game for free (for what was considered best game ever by the gaming press), and for it to bot push massive amounts of hardware, seems bad. For them to bundle it for free and for price drops to happen in UK/USA - very very bad.

So overall I think it will be like this:

EA: Generally happy, but will not do exclusivity again.
RS: Not happy with EA due to exclusivity, but happy with the sales.
MS: Not happy at all.

PS- as for the press they should have been ashamed of themselves how they handled the whole Titanfall review stuff.

Why would the press be ashamed of themselves?  By the overwhelming majority of the feedback from those that actually own the game, it delivered what almost all critics proclaimed.  How can the critics be held accountable if the game hasn't met the hype (mostly by internet fanboys EA) that it would sell 2-3X what it has.  Most people can clearly see that you are right on the Bolded, but claiming that your opinion that the game is not good doesn't make the reviews invalid.

EA planned to ship 6 million by the end of the year. TF is not on pace for that (unless it has ridiculous legs, but it is fast declining right now). If "fanboys" are the ones saying it'll sell 2-3x what it has sold right now, it's because EA themselves said that it should sell 2-3x what it has sold right now.



J_Allard on 18 April 2014
rolltide101x said:


Thats a cool opinion you have there. Personally i havent seen a good BF game since Bad Company 2 and BF4 was a joke of a game rushed to market and buggy as hell.

Lol BF4 is amazing and it has never been buggy. It just crashed to often.... It sold just as much as Titanfall on less hardware so it must not be to much of a joke.

Whatever you say broseph. Constant booting out of lobbies, shitty netcode with loads if rubber banding, loads of SP save glitches. And its still not close to fixed. Sounds amazing alright LOL.

Im glad you havent experienced any of these issues plaguing every version of the game. You should tell DICE, im sure theyd love to hear they can stop releasing all those patches to try and fix the issues.



bonzobanana on 18 April 2014

A lot more xbox one's will be sold this year especially at the run up to christmas. Titanfall is quite likely to pick up some good sales then or still be bundled with the console.

Is it a flop?

Technically: Yes (it makes the xbox one hardware look weak and does damage to the performance rating of the console.

Commercially: I don't know how much it cost to develop or what sort of return they expect on that investment. I suspect EA will be happy with their exclusivity payment, the developers lost out on PS4/PS3 income. Microsoft may be unhappy with their payment for exclusivity in light of only ok sales and weak technical performance.

Consumers: I think consumers have been served with a good game initially in playability terms but with limited content and more content costing additional money its probably poor value overall. Consumers will probably be better served with the sequel.

I think EA are the real winners here.

This is titanfall on a very basic entry level PC using integrated graphics, no screen tearing, no horrible frame rate dips. Yes detail set low and resolution not high but a much better experience than xbone or 360. Pre-built PC's without OS sell for as low as £240 with this chip in the UK probably less in the USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNLZIDZxquM



TheTruthHurts! on 18 April 2014

Flop, not even close.

Great game, great sales. Sales will have long legs.



MoiseHnkel on 18 April 2014
Gnac said:

Depends on your faction.


The only thing who came in my mind :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_Ot0k4XJc