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Forums - Sales - Brink has sold "more than 2.5 million worldwide"

Slimebeast on 21 April 2012

First of all, shipped 2.5 million. Brink is still at the bottom of bargain bins which indicates there's still hundreds of thousands of copies unsold on retailer shelves. Sold-to-customer number could be less than 2 million if we exclude PC sales. So it's not undertracked by much by VGC.

Second, the Splash Damage guy says $120-140 million revenue simply because he naively assumes each copy is sold for $50-60. The true number is much lower. The guy most likely isn't lying, he simple doesn't know how much publishers are paid for shipments etc.

Anyway, I am very happy it shipped 2.5 million copies because I love Splash Damage thanks to them making Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and ET: Quake Wars.



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Barozi on 21 April 2012
Slimebeast said:
First of all, shipped 2.5 million. Brink is still at the bottom of bargain bins which indicates there's still hundreds of thousands of copies unsold on retailer shelves. Sold-to-customer number could be less than 2 million if we exclude PC sales. So it's not undertracked by much by VGC.

Second, the Splash Damage guy says $120-140 million revenue simply because he naively assumes each copy is sold for $50-60. The true number is much lower. The guy most likely isn't lying, he simple doesn't know how much publishers are paid for shipments etc.

Anyway, I am very happy it shipped 2.5 million copies because I love Splash Damage thanks to them making Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and ET: Quake Wars.

But I doubt that the first shipment was 2.5m and as far as I know it hit the bargain bin very early, so why did retailers order even more copies when there are still lots of them in the bargain bin ?



Slimebeast on 22 April 2012
Barozi said:
Slimebeast said:
First of all, shipped 2.5 million. Brink is still at the bottom of bargain bins which indicates there's still hundreds of thousands of copies unsold on retailer shelves. Sold-to-customer number could be less than 2 million if we exclude PC sales. So it's not undertracked by much by VGC.

Second, the Splash Damage guy says $120-140 million revenue simply because he naively assumes each copy is sold for $50-60. The true number is much lower. The guy most likely isn't lying, he simple doesn't know how much publishers are paid for shipments etc.

Anyway, I am very happy it shipped 2.5 million copies because I love Splash Damage thanks to them making Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and ET: Quake Wars.

But I doubt that the first shipment was 2.5m and as far as I know it hit the bargain bin very early, so why did retailers order even more copies when there are still lots of them in the bargain bin ?

Why do you doubt it? Brink is the typical game that only gets one shipment. For all we know it could be around 2 million shipped console copies, then add 300K PC sales and they round it to 2.5 million when they talk to media.

2 million initial shipment ain't that strange for a renowned publisher and a fairly big game. Also, remember that the distributor part of the chain push their shipments into retail without the retail having any good idea how much a particular game will sell before it's released.



Kasz216 on 22 April 2012
Dr.Grass said:
dexterlablab1 said:
Yeah I can believe it sold that. Look how long it's been out? And look how long you could have bought it for $20 or less. The game dropped to $20 less than a month after release. So this number due to price and time isn't anything to pat yourself on the back over.


Yeah, he said, 

''2.5 million units worldwide, which at retail would mean that it's generated around $120-140 million in revenue''

That implies that each copy was sold at $50.

They are blatantly lying. The revenue was probably around $70-$80 million max.

I think it had a price drop on steam by month 2...



Kasz216 on 22 April 2012
Barozi said:
Slimebeast said:
First of all, shipped 2.5 million. Brink is still at the bottom of bargain bins which indicates there's still hundreds of thousands of copies unsold on retailer shelves. Sold-to-customer number could be less than 2 million if we exclude PC sales. So it's not undertracked by much by VGC.

Second, the Splash Damage guy says $120-140 million revenue simply because he naively assumes each copy is sold for $50-60. The true number is much lower. The guy most likely isn't lying, he simple doesn't know how much publishers are paid for shipments etc.

Anyway, I am very happy it shipped 2.5 million copies because I love Splash Damage thanks to them making Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and ET: Quake Wars.

But I doubt that the first shipment was 2.5m and as far as I know it hit the bargain bin very early, so why did retailers order even more copies when there are still lots of them in the bargain bin ?

Why do you doubt the first shipment was 2.5 million.  it was on 360, PS3, PC and Digital Download.



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NotStan on 22 April 2012

Makes me cry. This game was an absolute abomination to gaming, so many promises broken, so many basic rules not followed, so many bugs. Just generally a piece of crap game, I am surprised it even broke a million.



Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.

MrBubbles on 22 April 2012

i like this game. and some of the shit said about it is just plain absurd and some of them im pretty sure are just blatantly lying for whatever reason ^



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NotStan on 22 April 2012
Bristow9091 said:
... How?!

I bought the limited edition at Christmas for £1.98 BRAND NEW! I paid with a £2 coin and said keep the change... I sort of wish I didn't because the game sucked so bad, like seriously... so. bad. I don't even know how they could release the game to the public, it was just so awful that I felt offended and my wallet had been raped, even at such a low price... god damn I need to wash away the bad memories!

I rented it via lovefilm. Even I felt violated after playing it.



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dj2one on 22 April 2012

horrible game this game sells 2.5 million and R3 barely cracked 1 million, no justice in the gaming world these days



MonstaMack on 22 April 2012
dj2one said:
horrible game this game sells 2.5 million and R3 barely cracked 1 million, no justice in the gaming world these days


Bethesda published it, and It's also a FPS. We Americans love the FPS.

 

Though last i checked Trade in Value to gamestop was 75 cents. Now I am fully aware Gamestop doesn't give good trade in value when you consider the eBay route/selling to someone for cash, but even the ebay auctions are low. Looking at some of the new auctions It's under $8 shipped new.

 

You can get it $5 shipped used (or $4 shipped to the store) at Wal-Mart.com http://www.walmart.com/ip/Brink-Xbox-360-Pre-Owned-Xbox-360/19604498

 

The game I'm sure got a lot of sales the first few weeks then dropped off the face of the earth once word of mouth got around. Same thing happened with HomeFront: Sold a insane amount of copies the first week or two then stopped. I won't forget the day Wal-Mart dropped HomeFront to $30 not even two weeks after release and me and all my friends were pondering buying the game.



It's just that simple.