Mass Effect 2 Sales - What Went Wrong? (I am very worried)

[The Xbox Man]

makingmusic476 said:

The Xbox Man said:

nightsurge said:
Piracy and not releasing during a holiday season probably hurt some sales.

When i see mediocre New IP RPG's like Dragon Age Origins outselling it I get angry. (PS3 xbox combined numbers for dragon age)

Would being multiplat have helped its sales?

There's your problem.  The game is selling quite well for an RPG on a single platform.  The only RPGs that have thus far been truly successful on one platform are Fable II and Final fantasy XIII, the latter only because of 20 years of brand legacy and the fact that most people buying the game happen to own the same console.

If Mass Effect 2 had been multiplat, it'd have higher total sales, but it's sales on 360 are quite respectable for an RPG.

Key part being for an RPG.  The RPG is one of the more "hardcore" of the hardcore genres, thus RPGs generally have lower sales than other, more accesible genres (action/adventure games like Zelda, shooters, etc.).

It is? Its performing less than Fable 2, Fallout 3, Elder Scrolls IV, Mass effect 1 even on a single platform despite being called much better than each of them. I am quite disappointed, after seeing Uncharted 2 outsell its predecessor so quickly due to being recieved well compared to Uncharted 1 I expected the same from Mass Effect 2, it deserves it.