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dsage01 on 12 November 2011
shanbcn said:

It sold 2.4m at best in USA and UK first week, two biggest markets for FPS. According to ioi MW3 sold 2.4m ( i think) in rest of the world compared to 6.5m in USA and UK first day. Just to give you the idea how wrong you guys are.


^Umm NPD at all versions under 2 million



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D-Joe on 12 November 2011

^well i caped this few days ago(about 5~7pm US time)
PC should be little less than PS3 ver or tie



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Joelcool7 on 12 November 2011
shanbcn said:
Rainbird said:
shanbcn said:
Rainbird said:
shanbcn said:

It sold 2.4m at best in USA and UK first week, two biggest markets for FPS. According to ioi MW3 sold 2.4m ( i think) in rest of the world compared to 6.5m in USA and UK first day. Just to give you the idea how wrong you guys are.

Because clearly your evidence is strong enough to label EA as liars.

Yep strong enough unless you believe it sold 2.6m in rest of the world and only 2.4m in UK and USA which represents 75% of FPS market even when including digital sales.

1) You're assuming that EA knows it is 5 mio. copies sold. But EA only had estimates, and early ones at that, and early estimates are more prone to errors than fully fledged estimates.

2) You're assuming that Battlefield caters to exactly the same audience as Call of Duty, because the UK and US may well be 75% of Call of Duty's market, but the two franchises caters to different people. BF is more tactics oriented where CoD is oriented at fast, arcade-like multiplayer.

3) You're basing your evidence on NPD, who only track the US. You have no idea what the sales in the rest of the world are, including the rest of North America and the UK.

4) We have no clue what the digital sales are on a world wide basis.

So no, your evidence is not strong enough.


I think its just like some believed that UC3 sold 3.8m day one. Digital sales are not good enough to offset huge difference. 2.5m in NA at best including digital sales and 1.5m at best in rest of the world including digital sales. EA atleast overestimated 1 million and more likely 1.5m. Unlike Activision they didnt bother to provide source.

You mean sort of like how you accuse EA of lying without providing a source? I am very sorry but all the data points to 5-million or at least around five million. If VGChartz says 4 million and isn't counting Digital Downloads then five million is hardly a stretch. Now of course I have no absolute source to prove EA sold 5-million except it is highly unlikely that they were drastically off if off at all.



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fedfed on 14 November 2011

well i guess that they hoped for more people to rush and buy it fearing a shortage or want to be part of all the people that already play it.



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Aprisaiden on 14 November 2011
shanbcn said:

It sold 2.4m at best in USA and UK first week, two biggest markets for FPS. According to ioi MW3 sold 2.4m ( i think) in rest of the world compared to 6.5m in USA and UK first day. Just to give you the idea how wrong you guys are.


If your going to use ioi's figure for MW3 than also use the figures for BF3 -- thats week one sales of ~4.2million + digital downloads. Now you can argue that you believe the game had under 800k in digital sales but the only ones you know the total number of digital sales are EA. 

Finally i doubt EA would talk up BF3 sales so much if it wasn't selling so well -- they want a chance to annouce new shipment figures/sales so that investors believe a CoD-like size franchise. (even if i doubt Battlefield could maintain these sales if it was a yearly release)