Please stop what you're doing and take the time to

IN MY EYES
INDISPOSED

>>375951570
I'd laugh but my face is tired.

you do realize they shat that game out in probably 1.5 y ears and still made a massive profit

and that is only 1 platform's numbers. its a multiplat game

How much did they project they'd sell?

>>375951975
Sonybros aren't aware there are other platforms

>>375951975
The problem is it probably had a 50m+ advertising budget.

They lost money.

but it was #1 in the UK for several weeks

>>375952062
60*0.78m=46800000
they almost broke even from ps4 sales alone

>>375952164
They dont get 60 bucks per game.

Also cost of development.

>>375952164

They don't get anywhere close to the full cut of the game's sales price.

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>>375952383
>>375952392
how much do they get?

>>375952164
only 6-12$ from those 60, goes to bioware itself.

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>>375951570

>>375952032
I doubt they ever gave that info out. But considering ME2 sold over 4 million copies globally, it was probably EA's intention that it would do a lot better than it did. And considering the fact that it became a meme for having horrible animation they are definitely going to recognize it as having damaged the brand.

>>375952489
maybe ~20-25$ if you include EA cut.

THIS HURTS YOU

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>>375952067
See that the problem it the uk.

lol @ bioware sympathizers

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I'M ONLY HUMAN
AFTER ALL
DON'T PUT THE BLAME ON ME

>>375951570
I liked it

>>375951570
>north Americans while being the smaller market bought it more than Europe

They always had the worst taste

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I have a better question. Why the fuck are they copying Box Office Mojo's layout?

It wasn't enough that all of a sudden they started looking at second week sales of games like box office looks at second week dropoffs in movie goers, but now they have to make their shit look like Box Office Mojo too?

Why is the video game industry so desperate

>>375951726
AND MY YOUTH I PRAY TO KEEP
HEAVEN SEND HELL AWAY.
NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY YOUR GAMES ANYMOREEEEEEE

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TO PUT IT IN A BROADER PERSPECTIVE

The platform on display is the platform that sold MOST units during their first weeks after launch.

>>375952920
>Fate of the Furious
are they trying to outdo Land Before time for number of Sequels?

>>375952781
>fifa has 3 top sellers in ps4's top 10 best sellers

>>375953438
>Madden is always the top seller every month in the US

Your point?

>>375951570
Almost 1 million in one week after launch doesnt look that bad.

>>375953163
That is blatantly unfair. Gotta go over an equal number of weeks from launch.

>>375953163
Damn that's a serious hit

>>375953360

They wanna comclude the series at 10.

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>>375952467
This pic more or less sums it up on how game prices are divided among the distributer, publisher, console manufacturer, and marketing/misc. For PC, it's a bit different because of of digital distributers like steam and gog

>>375953163
>as of 01st Apr 2017

You realize those numbers haven't been updated for a whole month, right?

not defending the game, but Its May 4th, where the fuck are the sale numbers from April 20-29 or even current?

I thought VGCharts was updating weekly? Its been a whole month almost. Why the gap of no data?

Andromeda already went on sale less then 6 weeks after it was out. That is pretty damn sad.

...and I picked it up for $30.

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>>375951570
Mass Effect is finally dead.
Too bad the other 3 sold and damaged the RPG genre forever.
What a worthless franchise along with pretty much everything Bioware's ever done.

>>375954078
no one bought it

>as of April 1st

>>375951570
am only human after all
am only human after all
am only human after all
am only human after all

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>mfw the entire RPG genre
>there are people who unironically like them

>>375953545
show me, anon

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>>375953163
>3 outselling 1

>>375953163
How did those pieces of shit sell 3 million each?

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>>375953723
Each game on its bestselling platform.

Let's not forget VGChartz also sucks because it doesn't include digital sales.

>>375954481
by and large people liked two and they had no indea about the train wreck they were going into

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>>375952963
7/10 bretty gud

>>375951975
nope, this was in full development for about 4 years, and they had to redo a lot of shit after a bunch of staff left if I remember right

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>Mass Effect raped and destroyed
>Mafia raped and destroyed
>MGS raped and destroyed, without counting MG Survive
>Castlevania is dead
>Dragon Age is dead
>KOTOR is dead
Best timeline.

>>375954589
well since the best selling platform is almost guaranteed not to be PC the digital sales don't matter all that much

>>375954589
Even if we're really charitable and assume that digital sold another 300k on every platform that would still be a massive drop off.

>>375954862
Digital sales are EA's biggest source of income.

>>375954903
prove it

>>375951570

> crawling in my skin
> these wounds they will not heal

>>375954948
https://venturebeat.com/2016/11/01/ea-63-of-q2s-898-million-in-game-revenues-were-digital/

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>>375951570

>>375954948
>>375954990
This one's more recent.
https://seekingalpha.com/pr/16728840-electronic-arts-reports-q3-fy17-financial-results

>Digital net sales* of $2.861 billion for the trailing-twelve-month period represents 60% of total net sales, up 18% year-over-year.
>FIFA 17 was the best-selling console title in the world in 2016.
>Battlefield™ 1 was our biggest Battlefield launch ever and has a player base more than 50% larger than that of Battlefield 4™ in its comparable launch quarter.

>>375952467
Console manufacturer and retailer take ~$25 of those $60. Then you have to factor in shit like shipping and handling plus the packaging.
According to EA it cost $40 million to make so they'd need over 1 million in sales to justify development costs. The cost of marketing it was probably between another $20 to 50 million.

ME:A needs to sell ~2 million to break even, and roughly 3 million and/or a fuckton of DLC/micro-transactions to justify a sequel.

Personally I think its total revenue will be enough to be profitable, but not enough to justify making more games and will be viewed as a disappointment.

>>375954589
It doesn't include retail sales either. Literal guesswork.

Mass Effect Andromeda is getting the reception that the other 3 games deserved.
Too little too late, this franchise shouldn't have been a thing in the first place.

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>>375951570

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>>375951570
"Why sell millions when you can sell thousands?"

>>375951895
Here, let me patch you up anon, there, hows your face now?

>>375954990
>>375955091
But keep in mind that this includes every single penny they make with digital goods. In-app purchases, free2play, DLC, game keys, mobile - everything.

>>375954990
>>375955091

Most of those digital sales are from extra content and mobile games. Who knows if the extra content stats are from mobile games or from origin.

Bottom line:
It doesn't show how much digital sales Mass Effect Andromeda made.

>>375955381
There's also the fact that digital copies are far more profitable than physical ones.

>>375951570
these figures are outdated and only for the PS4 version.

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/268027/mass-effect-andromeda-sells-an-estimated-103m-units-first-week-in-the-west-at-retail/

in total it definitely fell far below EA's expectations (it was supposed to be their big thing for this quarter). But it didn't do poor enough to be a legit flop as it still sold over 1.03 million in it's first week in the west alone. It'll have made back it's budget by the time it's shelf life runs out.

This is NOT funny. Think about all the hard-working people who could lose their jobs over this Gamergate harassment.......very disappointing.

IM ONLY HUMAN

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>>375955432
of course, a 60 dollar game sold at gamestop makes them 35 bucks at best but they get full 60 from Origin.

>>375954803
Are you serious?

>>375955903
Yeah, why?

>>375954481
>established fanbase by then
>normie appeal and marketing

not really surprised desu

>>375955364
What did you mean by this?

WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME
IN YOUR EYES FORSAKEN ME

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>>375951570

>DOOSEX MK is a dissapointment
>NU-mass effect is complete shit
>Cyberpunk wont come out until 2019

I NEED A SCIFI FIX RIGHT NOW!
AND NOT PREY! FUCK THAT SHIT!

>>375954589
vgchartz doesn't include the sales in this plane of existence either, it's the handiwork of a single guy guesstimating sales and correcting them later for games he cares about (he doesn't for the vast majority of them) so he can win arguments on the internet (probably on neofag) because he has a "source"

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>>375951570
oh jesus fuck
i was wrong

i expected the mainstream to eat their shit up and their marketing to pick up the sales regardless of the shit

>>375951570
What site are those numbers taken from?

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>>375954803
>ME is dead
>MGS is dead
>Persona dropped out of the top 40 sales in the west
>mfw all story-focused games are flopping

Hopefully that will teach all the MLP fanfiction writers that unironically make videogame stories to just fuck off.

>>375955969
I just don't understand the hate for some of these franchises.
Why Castlevania and Mafia? I can guess you are happy that bioware licenses are dead rather than becoming zombies or maybe you just don't like RPGs and the hate for MGS is common but these ones I don't understand.

>>375956385
Mafia, like Bioware games, had undeserved praise, it was always bootleg GTA and it died as such.
Castlevania aside from the first the rest were complete shit, and Lords of Shadow games were a complete abomination.

>>375956376
But I like some of these games, why are you bothered by people liking what you don't like?

>>375956630
I don't feel anything towards you, you are in your right to like shit games, I personally wanted them to flop because they focus on telling stories, and those stories always suck dick.

>>375956371

Polygon

>>375951975
Wrong, full dev cycle, just the fuck up.

>>375956370
Same here, i thought they'd easily get a million normies buying the game from marketing alone and another million Bioware and AAA RPG fans each. Never been this glad to be wrong.

>>375952164
I hope you realize that breaking just even is a massive fucking flop for a production of that size

>>375951975
5 years and a 40 million dev budget

>>375956376
>>375956689
>mfw i actually agree with the opinion of a shitposter
Where have I gone so wrong?

>>375956954
A flop is when you lose money.
If they get their money back, oh well, they just learned the lesson, never bother with Mass Effect again.
In fact, I wonder if they simply wanted to kill off the franchise since they already have Star Wars.

>>375957069
If they got their money back it would be equal to wasting several years of everybody's time

forgot this game even existed

>>375954004

>what are taxes

>>375957187
But they also bought a lesson, as I said, to simply let Mass Effect rot.
Which i'm happy about, it was a worthless and tryhard attempt at being videogame Star Wars.

>>375951570
>I'm only human, after all.
>Don't put the blame on me.

We were warned.

>>375957339
Remind me again why people tried to force this maymay so much.

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>>375951570
gud rin

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>>375951570
reminder total war sold like 150,000 units

>>375956376
Wasn't Phantom Pain the highest-selling Metal Gear of all time?

>>375957695
It's irrelevant, the franchise will die now anyway after MG Survive flops.

>>375957557
reminder Mass Effect Assholemeda is multiplatform

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>a phone app does faces better than Bioware

>>375952164
To say that a game had profit is to actually double or even triple the total budget for the game. I thought this was basic knowledge?

So if they had a $50m budget for Mass Effect Andromeda, it has to at least make $100m for them to say they profited. $150m for them to say it was a success.