Bioshock Infinite - First week sales guessing game!

[Mr Puggsly]

ishiki said:

Mr Puggsly said:

ishiki said:

 

If Vgchartz is correct we have everything except Japan and RoW? Sorry my Table is weird. The overall total is bottom right. Thus, likely most everyone in here guessed over, except spurge.

Not counting PC, because VGC's PC tracking is never close to correct. But I can say I looked at launch Bioshock Infinites Peak Users on Steam was ~60,000, whereas Tomb Raiders was ~40,000, where Resident Evil 6 has had a peak of like ~30,000 and the online users for that is 96,000 (on PC, you can only have one account). How that translates to overall sales I'm not sure. Sorry if I was confusing.

	X360	PS3	Total
North America	458,938	219,646	678,584
Europe	166,057	111,582	277,639
Total	624,995	331,228	956,223

That's not the North America numbers, just US. The final number should be higher.

Regardless, it looks like sales are below my expectations. The PS3 opening is especially underwhelming.

With all the hype I definitely anticipated more. It may not even out perform Gears Judgement or GoW:A on their platforms. Combined sales are in the ballpark of Tomb Raider's opening and that was below expectations.

I honestly feel Bioshock Infinite would have performed better with online multiplayer.

I wonder too, I understand people saying it doesn't need it. But it's an extra checkbox people look for, particularly the ones that the "cover" on this game is trying to appeal to. It also has some ideas that might be cool in multiplayer. 

I still wouldn't play it for more than a couple of hours. But CoD was known heavily for it's single player campaign, before it went silly.

No doubt, if they put together some enjoyable multiplayer content it would have definitely gave a boost. I personally would have loved to see some sort of co-op modes. Multiple players fighting off waves of enemies is quite popular these days.

Even if you only used it for a few hours that's still more potential value. After I finished Bioshock Infinite, the disc might as well have been a coaster. Its not the kind of game I want to play multiple times or even go back to get more cheevos. I was done with it, time to play the next game or more Halo and Gears multiplayer.