Mr Puggsly said:
GreyianStorm said:
While that does show ME2 outselling ME1, you'll notice that it is actually now selling less per week than the original in the comparable weeks:
| Week |
Mass Effect |
Mass Effect 2 |
| 1 |
394,757 |
961,290 |
| 2 |
271,280 |
268,077 |
| 3 |
144,359 |
151,848 |
| 4 |
136,931 |
83,891 |
| 5 |
164,229
|
55,156 |
| 6 |
92,295 |
37,865 |
| 7 |
55,936 |
26,541 |
| 8 |
37,851 |
20,627 |
| 9 |
35,324 |
16,721 |
| 10 |
35,212 |
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As you can see, ME2 has declined extremely quickly. I know sequels are generally more front loaded, but it is down almost 20k per week on the original after just 9 weeks.
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This list would have more validity if Mass Effect 1 was released in January.
Mass Effect 1
 11/20/07 Microsoft
 05/21/09 Microsoft
 11/23/07 Microsoft
Mass Effect 2
01/26/10 Electronic Arts
(Add Date)
01/29/10 Electronic Arts
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That's not a great excuse considering that the market was much smaller when ME1 came out, and there was alot of popular games being released around the time.
ME2 was released on a much bigger userbase AND was the top dog in january.
The reason ME2 declined so much is because of the PC version, which is eating away the sales of the X360 version. The fact that ME2 had a much bigger launch week, yet dipped far below ME1's sales so fast can support that the PC version is eating the console version's sales.
