Amazon U.S. March bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

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Bandorr said:
I'm going to move my question down here to get it out of the drama from up there.

How much do you think the EA access demo helped or hurt the sales?

I can see it helping because people were able to play the game and see if all the reviews were true or not. If playing the game and "disagreeing" with the reviews you would go ahead and buy it.

And of course if they play the demo and hated it, they wouldn't have gotten the game. Then again that is true of all demos.

Is a "paid" demo really any different than a free one though? Does it being 10 hours long make it better at selling the game or hurting it?

I don't think ea access is that big honestly. Some gaf "insiders where saying only around(there's that word again lol, so I assume their estimation) 1 million subs. Which I'm inclined to agree with. When looking at the leaderboards on Sunday there where only 200k people who had played a mp match, so just guessing I'd double that number and say 400k people played it.  Overall I'd say it helped a fair bit of those 400k or so people decide to buy the game. i don't think enough played it to have a noticeable change on sales. 

 

In my opinion, mass effect lends itself more to the Xbox side(mostly because it was a console exclusive for a long time) so I think it will sell better on Xbox in the US and U.K., obviously not anywhere else tho. I think something like 1.25-1.5 sales on PS4 for every one on Xbox. People might think that's because of ea access later but i don't think so.