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Forums - Gaming Discussion - While Sony Celebrates 'Infamous' Sales, Microsoft/EA Still Quiet About 'Titanfall'

MB1025 on 12 April 2014
Somini said:
Fusioncode said:
I'd assume it's up to EA to announce sales figures. How often do they do that anyways?


Why would it be up to EA to announce it. Microsoft has shared news about Gears of War's performance in the early years of the 360. Gears of War was developed by Epic at the time.


Gears of War was published by MS.

Titanfall has no ties to Microsoft Studio's other than money. It was made by Respawn who signed with EA as the publisher.

There is your difference and why we won't have Microsoft give numbers. Hell Microsoft didn't even give the numbers for Dead Rising 3 when that reached 1 million shipped/sold. It was Capcom.



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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 12 April 2014
deskpro2k3 said:
DareDareCaro said:
You cannot compare the sale of TF and ISS. TF is basically free with the bundle and already in discount...


and here is the kicker, there is a surplus of those titanfall bundles.



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leo-j on 12 April 2014

well microsoft called titanfall this most anticipated game of this generation..

if it sold on par or barely more than a million in 9 days.. that would be pretty dissappointing, since they probably wanted another gears/halo type of game



 

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Azerth on 12 April 2014

Well just using vgchartz titanfall has sold more the infamous just on the one



ironmanDX on 12 April 2014
Azerth said:
Well just using vgchartz titanfall has sold more the infamous just on the one


Nope, doesn't count. MS, (who actually don't have the numbers BTW) aren't bragging about it. InFamous SS wins this round....

 

 



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Horrorfest on 12 April 2014

Microsoft/EA has no room to boast. Titanfall had a much bigger marketing campaign and was mass bundled at the same price as a normal xbox one unit mean while Infamous is tracking better on a single platform. Titanfall did just launch on the 360 but as of now it's clear that Infamous is performing better.



jlmurph2 on 12 April 2014

Since when does EA talk about their game sales besides on their quarterly earnings reports? And MS doesn't have the numbers so you'll have to wait for EA.



TarHeeLsALLday on 12 April 2014

Titanfall is not Microsoft's game. EA are the ones not giving numbers. We'll know official numbers in a few days when the NPD is out anyway.



Soonerman on 12 April 2014
Fei-Hung said:

I thought it would be obvious. Infamous a game made by a studio of no more than 80-90 people with a small marketing campaign sold at full price and no discount, managed to not only shift consoles but sell a million plus units of the game at full price z

Titanfall probably put together by a much larger team, with a much larger budget, and a marketing budget that dwarfs infamous only sold a little more, where most copies were given away from free (MS probably ate up the losses by forking up the cost), and drop the price of their console between £20-70 just to keep up with their competitor.

A million plus units at £50-60 with team of 90 and tiny marketing budget has probably made profit than a game which sold 1.5 million where many copies were given free and the console also took a hit in profits due to price cut.

Damn, some people here act like they were the creators of the game and that somehow Microsoft came and made fun of just cuz they are a bigger company. I saw a shit load of marketing for Infamous 3 on TV and it's on basically daily on tv ads for ESPN. Anyway, here's a fun fact about a MS previous exclusive and how it did. This little game came out on November 15, 2001

On its release Halo broke sales records; by April 8, 2002, a little under five months after its release, one million units had been sold: this pace was faster than that of any previous sixth-generation console game.[83] During the two months following Halo's release, the game sold alongside more than fifty percent of Xbox consoles.[84] Halo's retail price remained at US$49.99 until November 30, 2003.[85] By July 14, 2003, the game had sold three million copies worldwide,[86] and by January 28, 2004, it had reached four million copies.[87] As of November 9, 2005, Halo has sold over five million copies worldwide.[8

Based on that, I think TitanFall has done a fantastic job in a console that has half the userbase of PS4. So, isn't that basically a failure for Infamous 3?!?!? Hmmm, I wonder.....



sirnintendo on 12 April 2014

Well Titanfall didn't set the world on fire, because even though the creators of Call of Duty made it, it's not a Call of Duty title. The FPS market is so saturated that new names are tough to be HUGE sellers.