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makingmusic476 on 21 May 2010
The Xbox Man said:
nightsurge said:
Piracy and not releasing during a holiday season probably hurt some sales.

When i see mediocre New IP RPG's like Dragon Age Origins outselling it I get angry. (PS3 xbox combined numbers for dragon age)

Would being multiplat have helped its sales?

There's your problem.  The game is selling quite well for an RPG on a single platform.  The only RPGs that have thus far been truly successful on one platform are Fable II and Final fantasy XIII, the latter only because of 20 years of brand legacy and the fact that most people buying the game happen to own the same console.

If Mass Effect 2 had been multiplat, it'd have higher total sales, but it's sales on 360 are quite respectable for an RPG.

Key part being for an RPG.  The RPG is one of the more "hardcore" of the hardcore genres, thus RPGs generally have lower sales than other, more accesible genres (action/adventure games like Zelda, shooters, etc.).



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Slimebeast on 21 May 2010
The Xbox Man said:

Mass Effect 2 is regarded as one of the best RPG's of all time, according to the press much better than other RPG's of the current generation such as Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fable 2, Final Fantasy XIII & more.

A 96% Meta compared to 94% (Oblivion) and 93% (Fallout 3) is not "much better".

I think in this gen Bethesda has proved that they're the king of RPGs, not only among the press & reviews but in sales as well.



themanwithnoname on 21 May 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
RageBot said:
darthdevidem01 said:
RageBot said:
Because most pepole who buy WRPGs in the west don't do so because of the story and different experiences that they can have, but because statistics are cool, and ME2 lost a lot of the min/max that was in the first.

no WRPG's like KOTOR sold because of their story.

WRPG's like oblivion for their vast array of innovative content like the Dark Brotherhood

So ME2 didn't sell well because it didn't have statstics? ROFL!

@OP

I don't know, like others said its the mystery of the generation in terms of sales.

I'm pretty sure that if you took KotOR and stripped everything SW related from it, it wouldn't have sold half of what it did.

Innovative content? I won't call it innovative, but you're right, pepole bought Oblivion because they had a lot of different sidequests and a lot of things to do, ways to upgrade the character etc, that's still different from the focus of ME2.

But why would you do that? Thats what KOTOR is, it even had a better story than Episode 2.

So what was ME2's focus then? I haven't played it so I don't know.

Interaction and learning the backstory of your party members. It has the deepest collection of party members from any game I can remember.

OT: The sales are just fine considering it released in January.



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themanwithnoname on 21 May 2010
makingmusic476 said:
The Xbox Man said:
nightsurge said:
Piracy and not releasing during a holiday season probably hurt some sales.

When i see mediocre New IP RPG's like Dragon Age Origins outselling it I get angry. (PS3 xbox combined numbers for dragon age)

Would being multiplat have helped its sales?

There's your problem.  The game is selling quite well for an RPG on a single platform.  The only RPGs that have thus far been truly successful on one platform are Fable II and Final fantasy XIII, the latter only because of 20 years of brand legacy and the fact that most people buying the game happen to own the same console.

If Mass Effect 2 had been multiplat, it'd have higher total sales, but it's sales on 360 are quite respectable for an RPG.

Key part being for an RPG.  The RPG is one of the more "hardcore" of the hardcore genres, thus RPGs generally have lower sales than other, more accesible genres (action/adventure games like Zelda, shooters, etc.).


I agree with you, and highly disagree with him calling Dragon Age "mediocre."



themanwithnoname's law: As an America's sales or NPD thread grows longer, the probabilty of the comment "America = World" [sarcasticly] being made approaches 1.

The Xbox Man on 21 May 2010
makingmusic476 said:
The Xbox Man said:
nightsurge said:
Piracy and not releasing during a holiday season probably hurt some sales.

When i see mediocre New IP RPG's like Dragon Age Origins outselling it I get angry. (PS3 xbox combined numbers for dragon age)

Would being multiplat have helped its sales?

There's your problem.  The game is selling quite well for an RPG on a single platform.  The only RPGs that have thus far been truly successful on one platform are Fable II and Final fantasy XIII, the latter only because of 20 years of brand legacy and the fact that most people buying the game happen to own the same console.

If Mass Effect 2 had been multiplat, it'd have higher total sales, but it's sales on 360 are quite respectable for an RPG.

Key part being for an RPG.  The RPG is one of the more "hardcore" of the hardcore genres, thus RPGs generally have lower sales than other, more accesible genres (action/adventure games like Zelda, shooters, etc.).

It is? Its performing less than Fable 2, Fallout 3, Elder Scrolls IV, Mass effect 1 even on a single platform despite being called much better than each of them. I am quite disappointed, after seeing Uncharted 2 outsell its predecessor so quickly due to being recieved well compared to Uncharted 1 I expected the same from Mass Effect 2, it deserves it.



    
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makingmusic476 on 21 May 2010

Is it really performing less than Mass Effect 1? Our current figures have it well above ME1 over the same timeframe, but I'm not sure if ioi has taken EA's figures into account yet.



Slimebeast on 21 May 2010
The Xbox Man said:
makingmusic476 said:
The Xbox Man said:
nightsurge said:
Piracy and not releasing during a holiday season probably hurt some sales.

When i see mediocre New IP RPG's like Dragon Age Origins outselling it I get angry. (PS3 xbox combined numbers for dragon age)

Would being multiplat have helped its sales?

There's your problem.  The game is selling quite well for an RPG on a single platform.  The only RPGs that have thus far been truly successful on one platform are Fable II and Final fantasy XIII, the latter only because of 20 years of brand legacy and the fact that most people buying the game happen to own the same console.

If Mass Effect 2 had been multiplat, it'd have higher total sales, but it's sales on 360 are quite respectable for an RPG.

Key part being for an RPG.  The RPG is one of the more "hardcore" of the hardcore genres, thus RPGs generally have lower sales than other, more accesible genres (action/adventure games like Zelda, shooters, etc.).

It is? Its performing less than Fable 2, Fallout 3, Elder Scrolls IV, Mass effect 1 even on a single platform despite being called much better than each of them.

Get over it. Of course it has no chance to outsell those games. Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Fable are huge franchises. Mass Effect debuted in this generation. U can't expect it to touch the top dogs just yet.



The Xbox Man on 21 May 2010
makingmusic476 said:
Is it really performing less than Mass Effect 1? Our current figures have it well above ME1 over the same timeframe, but I'm not sure if ioi has taken EA's figures into account yet.

Look at the weekly sales:

http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Mass+Effect+2++-+X360%5B28815%5D&reg2=All&game2=Mass+Effect+-+X360%5B7635%5D&reg3=All&game3=&weeks=80&weekly=1

Mass Effect 1 is staggeringly higher. And even then Mass Effect 2 streamlined elements to make the game more easy to play for a wider audience. I am sorry I just expected more.



    
The Xbox Man on 21 May 2010
Slimebeast said:
The Xbox Man said:
makingmusic476 said:
The Xbox Man said:
nightsurge said:
Piracy and not releasing during a holiday season probably hurt some sales.

When i see mediocre New IP RPG's like Dragon Age Origins outselling it I get angry. (PS3 xbox combined numbers for dragon age)

Would being multiplat have helped its sales?

There's your problem.  The game is selling quite well for an RPG on a single platform.  The only RPGs that have thus far been truly successful on one platform are Fable II and Final fantasy XIII, the latter only because of 20 years of brand legacy and the fact that most people buying the game happen to own the same console.

If Mass Effect 2 had been multiplat, it'd have higher total sales, but it's sales on 360 are quite respectable for an RPG.

Key part being for an RPG.  The RPG is one of the more "hardcore" of the hardcore genres, thus RPGs generally have lower sales than other, more accesible genres (action/adventure games like Zelda, shooters, etc.).

It is? Its performing less than Fable 2, Fallout 3, Elder Scrolls IV, Mass effect 1 even on a single platform despite being called much better than each of them.

Get over it. Of course it has no chance to outsell those games. Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Fable are huge franchises. Mass Effect debuted in this generation. U can't expect it to touch the top dogs just yet.

It deserves to do much better than all of them (except Fallout 3), its just not fair when I see it selling like this.



    
averyblund on 21 May 2010

Whatever the reason it's a real shame. ME2 was some of the most fun I have had all year. And I always thought ME1 was overrated (still do).

When I look at the trash that seems to sell the best it just reminds me how the hardcore game buyers are still mostly teens obsessed with the next FPS sequel. Real hardcore gamers seem to be a real minority over the XBL-slur yelling scene that seems to be behind our industry.



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