The Xbox Man said:
Slimebeast said:
The Xbox Man said:
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?
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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.).
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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.
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Get over it. Of course it has no chance to outsell those games. Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Fable are huge franchises. Mass Effect debuted in this generation. U can't expect it to touch the top dogs just yet.
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It deserves to do much better than all of them (except Fallout 3), its just not fair when I see it selling like this.
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now you know what ps3 owners feel.
if the game was released in the holiday season it would have gotten higher sales. it doesn't have online, and it's an rpg, you can't expect a game to have legs when their's lots of competition. and most people who wanted the game would have gotten it on pc. Bioware's focus is not on consoles but on pc, games like dragon age origins played better on the pc then on consoles.
