| A203D said: This is actully a bad thing. think about it. Mass Effect 1 sold i dunno 2.5 mil copies. Mass Effect 2 sold 3 mil, not including digital sales. so based on that alone we know the sequel was so well recived it sold more than its predecessor. FF13-2 has sold less in its first week than FF13. FF13-2 will sell a lot less than FF13. there is no chance it will come close to 6.5 mil. now this is a problem because it means of all those people who bought FF13, not all of them came back. the point is games like Fable 3, Skyrim and Mass Effect 2 (soon 3) are so well recieved they are significantly increasing their number of sales and thus fans. FF adversly is not inceasing in fans, if we look at first week FF13 to FF13-2 sales there has been a significant decrease in the interest of the title. besides, FF13-2 will not sell more copies than Mass Effect 2. which is partly a disaster because out of 6.5 mil sales, FF13-2 will sell less that the original. from ME1's 2.5 mil sales, Biowares sequel will sell more than a sequel to a game that sold 6.5 mil copies. which developer has been more successful? the one that has decreased its fans, or the one that has increase it? besides saying FF13-2 has ONLY been beaten by Skyrim is an understatement. the game has sold 10 mil fucking copies. thats going to be more than the sales of FF13 and FF13-2 combined. and it has only recently come out. and FF13 is a significant drop FF10 and FF7 before it. the next FF will be comparable to FF12 and FF9 before that. on that note i dont think FF13-2s are bad. but its semi-annoying having Sqaure Enix spin doctors always trying to defend FF13 with franchises that have only been recently established. |
Keep in mind as well that Mass Effect has a pretty considerable amount of it's sales on PC. Whereas FF is console only, Bioware are traditionally a PC developer and still have a huge fanbase there. It was announced in April 2011 that the series had sold over 7million. Even now 10 months later the console versions are at 6million. The PS3 version was only around 400k then as it wasn't long released (now 900k). Me2 (360) has sold another 300-350k odd since then. So I would guess that ME1+2 on PC had around 1.8million minimum sales in April 2011.
Not hard to believe ME1+2 each ended up around a million on PC.
