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Mafia 3 is the Fastest Selling Title in 2K History, 4.5M shipped in one week
- Thread starter Mr. Tibbs
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Conkerkid11
Member
wat
LordOcidax
Member
Agree with you...
flaxknuckles
Member
Yep. I'm sad we haven't got more of them because I would inject them right into my veins.
Cave Johnson
Member
But this is retailers right? How much sold though?
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Interested in the sell through numbers.
LordOcidax
Member
AHA-Lambda
Member
Fucking wut???
That's insane =/
That's insane =/
Ninja Scooter
Member
I'll bring the mayo
Death Metalist
Member
Did my part. Congrats 2K! As long as the stories are good and the writing is solid, I'm there.
Admiral Woofington
Member
by the time it's on sale hopefully mods fix the graphical issues and I'll get it.
Rellik
Member
There are things hinted at towards the end of the game that could be great single player DLC.
Reverend Funk
Comfy Penetration
I don't know anyone that bought it
dr_rus
Member
Well, the game is at ~330K on PC alone according to SteamSpy, with most copies bought for ~$50. Console versions should do at least twice that so it's safe to assume that we're looking at 1,5M sold through at the minimum.
The game isn't GTA5 clearly but it certainly isn't a flop. I do wonder what was 2K's expectations though.
Cheever
Member
Internet anon loves to decimate anything with cracks in it.
I think aside from the Asian market it was a world-wide release on 3 platforms. My impression is most games sell 5-10x more on consoles than PC. Plus a lot of people nibble at games between work and family instead of binging or visiting forums. I sometimes binged so I cast no stone.
I think aside from the Asian market it was a world-wide release on 3 platforms. My impression is most games sell 5-10x more on consoles than PC. Plus a lot of people nibble at games between work and family instead of binging or visiting forums. I sometimes binged so I cast no stone.
UberTag
Member
We won't be getting those because publishers only advertise good news and obfuscate bad news. NPD won't be offering any clarity on this either.
Happy for 2K that they were able to swindle a bunch of retailers, though. They did a good job selling the game to one audience at least.
It's an audience that isn't subjected to the repetitiveness of the game itself or one that insists on glowing reviews so they're much easier to please.
This audience also loved No Man's Sky.
One thing I will say to 2K's credit is that they have been aggressive about patching the many holes in NBA 2K17.
Granted, some of these patches have opened up additional exploits... BUT they have been diligent about it.
I would suspect Mafia III will get some earnest follow-up in this department as well.
Mafia 3 doesn't have 'cracks' it's a mess of pieces being loosely constrained(not held) together by some twine. Game's like writing an essay with zero outline and just winging it.
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Deleted member 325805
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CDKeys have emailed my twice offering it at £18, it'll be going for £10 soon I'm sure. Pretty badly, they've not touched it.
texhnolyze
Banned
Does it really matter? Shipped through means the publishers already got the money from retailers, right?
They generally have to pay back the retailers to cover price cuts, and then eventually have to buy back excess stock if it really tanked.
But what if mess of pieces loosely constrained by twine are a style of game people enjoy?
Let's see how that is a month from now because I can think of another game that released this year that did well on launch before people figured out what the loop of the game was
Mafia 3 starts very theatrically and driven and immediately falls into a time locked progression system that forces mission after mission of MMO-esque criteria on you. The game had a huge initial push. People are starved for another GTA-like game but you don't realize what Mafia 3 is until about 3 or 4 hours in. No amount of bug fixing will change that.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Right? I want more open world crime game protagonists who act in their own interests more often than not, and aren't just begrudgingly following orders the whole time.
It's very rare to get sell-through, but it happens on occasion. Digital only games are of course entirely sell-through.
Thanks. I don't see the reason for any big discussion about it only being sell-through then unless this is a big case where the gap between sell-in and sell-through are unusually large which admittedly seems like it may be the case with Gamestop's statement.
The difference in this case is what it might mean for Mafia 4 and retailers buying that taking into account Mafia 3.
ViolentP
Member
Yeah, Mafia 2 had you slowly working your way up the ranks. 3 is a straight up revenge tale and Clay is an amazing character to deliver it.
1 had the most authentic feel of being in a mafia, 2 was pretty lame in that regard tbh.
Spring-Loaded
Member
It says 4.5 million shipped in the thread title though? And 2K's made that money regardless.
This and the GTA thread are clear as day.
ViolentP
Member
I'd play it if I could get the controls working properly.
It's terrible with a controller tbh, mouse and keyboard is the way to go.
Tommy gun with a mouse is legendary, that recoil.
ViolentP
Member
I tried with the controller only because the keyboard felt bugged. That intro car chase, though I held the key down, the car simply wouldn't move fast enough.
