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Forums - Sales Discussion - mass effect - 1 million copies sold?

tokilamockingbrd on 11 December 2007

I have been reading a lot of reports stating that there are a lot of ME copies on the shelves, so 1 mill shipped sounds believable



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darklich13 on 11 December 2007

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albionus on 11 December 2007
erikers said:
sinha said:
"We've... seen a strong response to both Halo 3 sales with more than 5 million, and Mass Effect which has sold more than a million copies in less than three weeks," noted Bell, highlighting consumers' reaction to Microsoft's holiday push.

MS
Halo 3: > 5,000,000
Mass Effect: > 1,000,000

vgchartz
Halo 3: 5,819,045
Mass Effect: 557,356

Why would they be giving "sold to consumers" numbers for Halo 3, but "sold to retailers" numbers for Mass Effect?

 Stop making too much sense with logic.  I'm warning you, people will start to get angry here.


I don't know about making me angry but it is flawed logic.  >5 million means 5.8 million and every single number up to infinity.  That means if MS is referring to sold to retailers and has sold say 6.2 million to retailers then it is >5 million.  Why wouldn't MS say >6 million? Perhaps because 5 million is a nice round number (this is a press release I take it) or perhaps VGChartz is overtracking Halo 3 sales by a half a million or so (thereby putting Halo 3 shipped under 6 million). 

Something to note, for the cases of GoW or Halo 3 for example, fast selling games (and consoles) will have shipped figures that approximate sold to customer figures very quickly.  Slower selling games (and consoles) will take noticeably longer.  Given that it is backed by MS, hyped, and the constant ads I see I would guess MS expected it to sell very well which could mean a lot of unsold stock sitting on store shelves and a sold to customer stat that isn't as close to sold to retailer like Halo 3.  I'm not saying that is the case but seeing as VGChartz has been overtracking everything 360 lately I would be surprised to learn that they undertracked Mass Effect.  We'll find out what is happening soon enough.



WiiStation360 on 11 December 2007

You realize that when this was posted this morning, Vgchartz only had 10 days worth of sales data for Mass Effect. And you are comparing it to an estimated total for 21 days?

Wait until next week's sales totals, (Dec 15th) and then see how far off the number are. It should be in the 850k range by then.