demogorgon
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I seen TF2 as low as 25 bucks weeks after launch and still couldn't bring myself to buy it. after playing the beta I was so upset with what they did to it i lost all interest
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Morgan Stanley raises Battlefield 1 sales estimate to 15M; Titanfall 2 4 million
- Thread starter Theorry
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4 million receiving heavy discounts.
Not a great mark for the potential that the first game left, especially being available on PS4 too this time.
Echelon079
Member
Everyone knows Electronic Arts sent Titanfall 2 out to die with its release date. It would have sold a lot better coming out in February or March of this year
People keep saying this as though it is fact but thankfully we will see how well some of the spring releases perform this year.
Obliterator
Member
No doubt and I'm not trying to say its the end of the world or anything, just that a big reason its been able to sell what it has is due to heavy discounting. 4 million still isn't anything to just brush off though.
By all indications yes.
Greatest Ever
Member
The $20 price was just on Dell's site, and not for very long.
I didn't know we had someone involved with the marketing or development of TF2. Please enlighten us about the budgets so we can better discuss this matter.
Considering the first sold majority of copies at discount what makes TF2 different? The original was released there wasn't much more to play on your shinny new Xbox but that would not be the case for the sequel - so they banked on keeping the online community going via holiday sales.
Nightengale
Member
Anecdotally 3 million of those 4 million sales are sold at a 50% discounted rate globally.
Not just in US for Black Friday, but EA pretty much had wholesale discounts for Titanfall 2 within weeks of launch by 50%.
So in monetary terms, their profit is only that of a game that sold 2+ million.
Not just in US for Black Friday, but EA pretty much had wholesale discounts for Titanfall 2 within weeks of launch by 50%.
So in monetary terms, their profit is only that of a game that sold 2+ million.
That was on the back of the game beeing prety much 50% off on its release week (sometimes even before)
hanspampel
Banned
Titanfall 2 marketing was less than the first game imho. Not sure about the development costs, but I doubt the game needs north of 5m units to break even
Problem is more the low number of units at full price
LegalEagleMike
Member
Well it may have been less but they didnt have Microsoft to cover a ton of those expenses this time around.
4M isn't that good considering the inclusion of PS4 IMO. Still half of what it's done on Xbox/Origin (I know that was out longer and had deeper discounts when we got the 7M sales figure, but still).
How much should be we looking at for lifetime sales? I want to say about 8M again but I don't know if that's too high since it's already been on a deep discount.
How much should be we looking at for lifetime sales? I want to say about 8M again but I don't know if that's too high since it's already been on a deep discount.
So you're saying Titanfall 2 needs $360 million in revenue to break even.
Really
Well thanks for educating us.
That game seemed like it had a relatively low budget from a relatively small team, so I bet they made their money back on it.
Don't forget to take out Platformer, retailer, shipping/disc costs, etc. Out of that $360M EA will probably only see like 100M of it
But yeah, Titanfall has probably profited already for EA
bananafactory
Banned
Well deserved. Battlefield 1 is a fantastic game
Interficium
Banned
Within striking distance, for sure.
4 million is abject failure for Titanfall 2, there's no getting around it. They barely surpassed the sales of the first game, which was an exclusive.
EA's internal forecast was around 10 million.
why was this bumped