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Titanfall sells nearly 1M in the US during first 3 weeks.
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If they believe so then they are as crazy as Activision are for thinking Destiny will be the best selling new IP of all time, but they haven't come out and said anything about their expectations, so until they do I will give them the benefit of the doubt.
Hockeymac18
Member
It has to be around 1 out of every 3 consoles...which sounds pretty damned high to me.
Chobel
Member
C'mon man, you can't do that comparison:
Infamous: SS sold 1 million worldwide in 9 days, Titanfall did it in US in 3 weeks.
It's actually more, 2 out of every 5 consoles
ShinobiFist
Banned
You mean Amazon or Origin.
Can't have been that much on EA's part considering they cut funding at one point.
Project 2501
Member
Did InFamous: Second Son outsell Titanfall?
Hari Seldon
Member
I wonder what the digital numbers are considering it wasn't on Steam.
well we don't have exact numbers. I doubt they "lost" money here.
underwhelming? sure, but that's cause their expectations were delusional then
same thing's gonna happen with Destiny, to a point. You can't compare these things to COD or HALO cause the vast majority of people who end up achieving those numbers know COD and HALO, not Respawn and Bungie.
heck I bet it's gonna be worse with Destiny cause they're spending fucking half a billion on it
I hope that was PC gamers remembering MW2 and not general cod contraction.
oneils
Member
Titanfall also had a 360 and pc release.
I would really like to know figures for all three platforms - digital and physical.
haven't played cod since MW2 but am willing to give titanfall a shot if it were really cheap. But with no private servers kind of makes it shitty. Its as if EA or Activision don't want to figure out the pc market at all.
Project 2501
Member
Edit: Beaten
Habib Marwan
Banned
Even for new IP that isn't mindblowing or anything. Assassins Creed 1 did like 8 or 9 million - THAT is impressive for new IP. Considering the marketing spend and the fact that Microsoft was literally giving the game away, this isn't that great.
So? It's about the sales.
If it's about what game sold faster, than of course Infamous: SS sold faster out the gate.
Hockeymac18
Member
On an installed based of ~3 million (or less?)? Jesus, if that's a failure, there are a lot of failed games out there.
Crazy high ratio, if true (almost 40%). I don't see how people think that equates to failure.
Nydius
Member
GAF's moving pretty fast with all these threads so I'll just rewrite what I wrote elsewhere, with a couple additions.
There's no reason for them to not tell us the PC sales. Since the game went through Origin exclusively and every single copy, digital and retail alike, had to be activated through their service, EA should have an explicit count of the number of PC copies sold to and activated by consumers.
By hiding behind the generic "we did X-percentage of digital sales" comment and not breaking it down the only thing I can infer is that Titanfall PC sales were so underwhelming they don't even want to mention it.
There's no reason for them to not tell us the PC sales. Since the game went through Origin exclusively and every single copy, digital and retail alike, had to be activated through their service, EA should have an explicit count of the number of PC copies sold to and activated by consumers.
By hiding behind the generic "we did X-percentage of digital sales" comment and not breaking it down the only thing I can infer is that Titanfall PC sales were so underwhelming they don't even want to mention it.
Depends on a lot of factors. Usually 1 Million in 3 weeks on a new IP is pretty freaking great. However, it comes down to profit, which, we'll probably never really have the fully story on. Will Titanfall have the legs to bring in enough revenue to cover the costs + be profitable?
With AAA titles nowadays, it's all about preparing for the franchise.
Yeah, but let's not let that get in the way of the narrative that some people here wish to construct.
ethomaz
Banned
If I'm not wrong Titanfall had one more week of sales... plus PC.
The game was entirely funded by MS, so that's a bit inaccurate to say the least. MS saved a game that would have shut down by EA, and it went to their systems as a result. Same as DR3 going to XB1 since the only one that would fund it was MS.
No harm no foul there since they weren't simply paying to keep it away from other platforms.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Pretty sure titanfall will sell more in the long run. People are already trading infamous. I would too but havent beaten it yet.
Depends on which "they" you mean. MS clearly fronted money in order to secure exclusivity. EA put up good money. And then there's Respawn to consider. With the Xbone still trailing in sales for new consoles, I imagine EA is seriously kicking themselves for selling exclusivity so cheaply.
The way this game was hyped, you would think that it would sell some more despite the numbers being solid. Microsoft needs to get to making some fucking good exclusives to legitimately compete down the road. Hopefully they can show off something good in E3 and have new games coming through the pipeline like Sony usually does with their staggered exclusive releases.
I know that TitanFall is a fun shooter, but Microsoft really should stop over hyping shit before it's released:
Exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhu0MMS7RjY
This ad was released before the the Xbox One was even launched
GTFO Microsoft, LOL
I know that TitanFall is a fun shooter, but Microsoft really should stop over hyping shit before it's released:
Exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhu0MMS7RjY
This ad was released before the the Xbox One was even launched
GTFO Microsoft, LOL
Byakuya769
Member
Titanfall sales are a gaming Rorschach test.
PC retail. Digital numbers aren't included in NPD.
anchorman128
Member
Very poor performance with the hype and marketing budget behind it. Infamous sold a million in like 6 days. I bet EA is kicking themselves on the probably 500k-1m sales they could have had, had the game been on PS4. That is, if MS didn't already pay more than that for the exclusivity
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
Not a failure but it sounds like it didn't meet expectations either and for that I am glad.
I honestly feel like the media outlets and such were shoving this game down our throats for a year. Like a "this will be the next great FPS and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it so just accept it" sort of thing. They pulled the same shit with many other games and it has gotten worse and worse over the years to the point where it was super obvious with Titanfall. And I think it may have backfired a little bit here.
Locking out 80m+ potential customers didn't help either.
I honestly feel like the media outlets and such were shoving this game down our throats for a year. Like a "this will be the next great FPS and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it so just accept it" sort of thing. They pulled the same shit with many other games and it has gotten worse and worse over the years to the point where it was super obvious with Titanfall. And I think it may have backfired a little bit here.
Locking out 80m+ potential customers didn't help either.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Okay numbers but has to be below EA and MS expectations .
oneils
Member
if the 925,000 includes pc and 360 then the attach rate point is a little hasty. we would really need figures broken out by platform.
edit: it does not include 360
the game was funded by MS, EA didnt exactly "sell exclusivity". MS fronted money to get the game made period (on their console, of course).
it's like saying Nintendo paid to get Bayonetta 2 out of PS360, just not the case
It had hype, people liked it, it's also on a console that just came out. 1 million isn't that bad.
I really really like this comment.
Supposedly they weren't working on it the full 3 years as they got entangled in the IW lawsuit.
grandwizard
Member
The amount of hype for this game throughout the gaming press the last year and a half was bordering on unbearable. Compare it to other games that come out and sell around the same or much more.
ShinobiFist
Banned
No and yes. If the budget was small, then it would be a great success, but if it was alot, then you're fuck. With Titan, it's not about the budget, but the hype it receive. That's what people keep mentioning. A MP only game sold at 60$ is not bad at all, not many companies can manage that many units for any new I.P. with more content as well. MS and the media expected this game to be like what Gears Of War did for the 360.
We have two sets of people arguing over two different things and thinking that they somehow should reach an agreement:
- Absolute sales numbers
- Numbers relative to expectations
Both are important figures, but don't act surprised when people are talking about the second one by quoting the first. It's either a fundamental understanding of the data or a disingenuous interpretation of what's actually being said.
- Absolute sales numbers
- Numbers relative to expectations
Both are important figures, but don't act surprised when people are talking about the second one by quoting the first. It's either a fundamental understanding of the data or a disingenuous interpretation of what's actually being said.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
That's close to a 40% attach rate isn't it?
And its without Digital
And its without Digital
Another way to look at it was probably close to Knack LTD WW.
...Knack!?
(Knack did surprisingly well for what it was, so that's not a bad thing to be compared to... quality of knack not counting. Still, interesting to think about)
BattleMonkey
Member
The amount of marketing and hype that went into it, and across 2 platforms and it only sold that much? It's obviously not the hit that MS would have wanted for it's killer platform exclusive, with those numbers, it's not pushing hardware and NPD already proved that it didn't do much good at that. For a new IP it's not bad, but surely there is some disappointment out there on it's performance, as few new IPs get such huge marketing pushes.
I think it was pretty obvious it didn't meet expectations when the Xbox couldn't beat the PS4 the month they gave out TitanFall with the console. One million isn't bad, but it was meant to move consoles, not to do "okay", or "good". I wonder what the marketing budget for the game was.
Jezbollah
Member
You're right, they weren't simply paying to keep it away from other platforms - but they did stifle Titanfall's exposure on the 360 to try and get people to buy Xbox Ones..
Abinash117
Member
The sales doesn't seem that bad
Bornstellar
Member
PC.... Retail...?
It had hype, people liked it, it's also on a console that just came out. 1 million isn't that bad.
PC,360,one......
Are there any concrete sales numbers for Dark Souls 2? It seems to be doing better than the first game on both PC and console.
Would still be surprised if it outsold Titanfall, considering the marketing TF got.