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naznatips on 29 November 2007
elnino334 said:
Too many of my friends have it for the sales to be that low. More have mass effect then assasins creed. Obviously that is a small sample but my friends have been fairly close to what the numbers here show. To be fair mass effect hasn't burn up the amazon.com charts like bioshock, call of duty or even assasins creed. I think ME is just too much game for some people lol.

Yes, well that's the problem with Anecdotal evidence.  It rarely means anything.  If Mass Effect had sold anywhere near what Assassin's Creed did you can bet EA would have sent out a press release bragging about the numbers.



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sinha on 29 November 2007

Naznatips makes two good points, anecdotal evidence is close to useless, and the double software sales thing was for October.

But given that 360 hardware was corrected upwards from 255k up to 299k, I'm sure all 360 software did slightly better than is currently being shown.  I'm sure the change for each individual game is minimal, after all, the 193k sales for Mass Effect is for all of the close to 9 million 360 owners in America, not for just the 300k that bought a 360 this week.  As mrstickball said, it's not that big a deal, it will all get figured out eventually.



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Dolla Dolla on 29 November 2007
sinha said:

Naznatips makes two good points, anecdotal evidence is close to useless, and the double software sales thing was for October.

But given that 360 hardware was corrected upwards from 255k up to 299k, I'm sure all 360 software did slightly better than is currently being shown. I'm sure the change for each individual game is minimal, after all, the 193k sales for Mass Effect is for all of the close to 9 million 360 owners in America, not for just the 300k that bought a 360 this week. As mrstickball said, it's not that big a deal, it will all get figured out eventually.


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gebx on 29 November 2007

two reasons why Mass Effect could have low sales

1) Too much competition.. AC, CoD4, and GH3 all released before Mass Effect

and

2) its a niche game



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OriGin on 29 November 2007

I don't agree, it sold roughly the same proportionately in Australia as well



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starcraft on 29 November 2007

MASS EFFECT IS AWESOME!!! Just finished it. Took around 35 hours, and it has the single greatest ending of any game I have ever played. It got better and better the longer I played it.



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ckmlb on 29 November 2007

I always saw ME disappointing, regardless of quality because of genre. I thought Bioshock would suffer too but that didn't happen.



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gebx on 29 November 2007
ckmlb said:
I always saw ME disappointing, regardless of quality because of genre. I thought Bioshock would suffer too but that didn't happen.

The difference between Bioshock and ME is that Bioshock came out before everyone else.

I believe if the roles where reversed and ME came out in August then it would of received the same amount of media attention and sales.



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mysticD on 01 December 2007

I think 360 owners are just on "overload" with games that came out in the last 3 months.

I have bought more games this last 6 months than I have in the past 4 years (well WoW is partly to blame).

I didn't pick up Mass Effect until this week because I am still finishing Ace Combat 6 (finally).  I barely started AC and Call of Duty not to mention Eternal Sonata, PGR4.

 There are just a lot of games ... and Mass Effect being the last one out of the gate , many probably wait to pick it up after X-mas.

 



Legend11 on 01 December 2007

I think the PSP and PS3 are being overtracked and the Wii to a far lesser extent.  The 360 for whatever reason seems to be undertracked (maybe to make up for overtracking or something in the past?).