So, Let's Talk PS3 Mass Effect 2 Sales

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88K opening. A little disappointing to say the least. Yet EA/Bioware saying the game was as rare as hen's teeth towards the end of opening week, and some retailers saying they sold their entire first order (which was obviously very low, with low expectations.

So far with EMEAA and Americas in for its 2nd week we have 50K in sales. So a ~43% 2nd week drop. On an absolute basis 43% 2nd week drop is a very good result. But it's kinda easy to achieve a sub 50% drop when your first week's sales were low tro start with.

At this early stage can the legs be predicted leading up to Mass Effect 3? If ME2 can cruise along at 20K in sales per week during the year then it can inexorably make its way to 700-800K by the time Mass Effect 3 comes along. With a price drop it should be able to keep sales going past Mass Effect 3 and perhaps eventually make 1 million. This would be a pretty good outcome for the Franchise that will only ever be 2/3 of what it is on PC/360.

Or if the legs are terrible it might struggle to make 250K, and ME3 will bomb possibly even harder.

What do you think? Will Bioware/EA get a return for taking Mass Effect to PS3, or will it be an ill conceived move, and because of MS owning the original game they should have left the game as PC/360 only, and simply moved on to another Sci-fi RPG franchise after ME3 was done, somewhat akin to what Bungie is now doing post Halo?

I know I would have eventually got a PC capable of playing the game, so either way I wouldn't have missed out, but I am glad I'll now be able to play it sooner rather than later.