Mass Effect 2 sales in the toilet-- is the reason ME1?

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darthdevidem01 said:

GreyianStorm said:

kitler53 said:
i would suggest clicking the following link:

http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Mass+Effect+2++-+X360[28815]&reg2=All&game2=Mass+Effect+-+X360[7635]&reg3=All&game3=&weeks=100

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	-

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.

ME1 came out in the holidays though.

The difference in release time probably affected sales however if you look at week 8-9 of ME1 that's end of January and definitly out of the holyday boost  so most likely Me2 will have much shorter legs than Me1.

It's kind of a pity as I believe the last 2 Bioware titles ( DA and ME2) should have gotten much better sales than they have.

One reason for Me2 average sales is probably the fact that so many games were released in the February-March period and it probably is competing with FF XIII right now...

But if things keep going like they are right now ( and there's no reason why they shoudn't) the edge ME2 currently has on ME1 at this stage will slowly go down and in the end Me2 will end up barely outselling Me1.

Me 1 sold 2.17 mill units so far.

Me2 needs 30 weeks or so at the current sales level to get there and so far Me2 sales haven't stabilized, they keep going down every week...