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Forums - Sales Discussion - Internal EA data says "Mass Effect 2 sold over 2 mio."

Rainbird on 29 January 2010

http://computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=233156

Mass Effect 2 has "sold-in" over two million units worldwide in less than a week, claims EA, making the BioWare RPG the "first blockbuster of 2010".

The stellar numbers (which are based on "internal EA data") have been achieved despite the sequel only being on sale in North America since Tuesday - and released in Europe just today.

"Mass Effect 2 has earned 40 perfect scores, amassed over 30 editor's choice awards and is donning the front cover of 20 magazines worldwide," said EA. 

"On launch day, the term 'Mass Effect' was in the top 10 trending topics on Twitter and most searched on Google News. MSNBC.com said, 'Mass Effect will go down as one of the most influential video game series of all-time on the Xbox 360 platform'."

Dr. Ray Muzyka, BioWare co-founder, added: "Mass Effect 2 is poised to be one of the biggest games of 2010. We could not be more proud of the game's universal acclaim and early commercial success."

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Pretty impressive, even if that is only shipped and on both PC and 360. I'm looking forward to seeing how the 360 version does specifically.



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nightsurge on 29 January 2010

Internal VGChartz data says this is already posted.



darthdevidem01 on 29 January 2010
nightsurge said:
Internal VGChartz data says this is already posted.

DUDE WTF!!!

I was about to say that, I'm not lying, I was actually about the say the exact SAME THING!

Stop copying my posts



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radha on 29 January 2010

is it on PC too?
whats the percentage for each?



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Rainbird on 29 January 2010

God damn it, why aren't sales threads posted in the sales forum?!



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Javaupdate on 29 January 2010

Yet vgchartz just put up an article saying 1 million sales. Fail.

I told you guys this would be big.

All the more amazing considering only on 360 for consoles.



heruamon on 29 January 2010

And M$ give the publishing rights back to EA for the series, when they bought Bioware...hmmmm....I wonder what M$ got for all these lost profits?



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Demotruk on 29 January 2010

Damn! Far far bigger than I thought it would be.



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jarrod on 29 January 2010
heruamon said:
And M$ give the publishing rights back to EA for the series, when they bought Bioware...hmmmm....I wonder what M$ got for all these lost profits?

A lock on exclusivity probably.

 

 



theprof00 on 29 January 2010
Javaupdate said:
Yet vgchartz just put up an article saying 1 million sales. Fail.

I told you guys this would be big.

All the more amazing considering only on 360 for consoles.

You'll have to understand something. When a company says a game "sold" some amount, they mean that they "shipped" such and such number of copies to game stores and distributors.

When VGChartz says something "sold" some amount, they mean that customers walked into those gamestores and bought such and such number of copies.