J_Allard said:
this Though I fail to see how even the most diehard Sony enthusiast could call a game selling as well as Titanfall a flop. Then again PS4 owners always had the highest expectations for the game. |
I learned from sales2099 that a game can still be a flop, despite good sales. For example, he's said that GT6 was a flop, despite selling a few million copies. That was because it "performed below expectations". Since it didn't meet those expectations, it's a flop.
By that same token, Tomb Raider sold what, 4 or 5 million, and SE/Crystal Dynamics were still disappointed with its sales (did it fail to make a profit? I don't remember)
So, here we have Titanfall at a cool 1.55M across all platforms (until 360 numbers come in). What were the expectations? 6 million shipped by years end (by the way, those are EAs expectations, not PS4 owners)? By the way things are looking, unless the 360 version performs similarly to the XBone version, then TF will be a flop by that "definition".
I personally don't think it is one. 1.35M is great, especially on an install base of 4.2M (32% attach ratio!). But apparently those kinds of sales don't necessarily equal profit (looking at Tomb Raider) and it's far below sales expectations right now (2.4M shipped by the end of the fiscal quarter. 1.55M total sold. 0.85M sitting on shelves?) so if someone wanted to call it a flop, I wouldn't argue.
