Mass Effect Andromeda has sold millions under sales projections

Wait, suikoden didn't post this?

Are we in the end times?

I wonder why people keep throwing sales numbers of diffrent games around as if that would mean anything.

Any company developing any product has certain projections for this product to be a success. Based on production costs, man hours and overall development cycle. So ME3 selling X amount of copies can't be compared to MEA selling X amounts of copies. Same for DAI or any other game. Unless you are privy to how the company calculated, not even the precise numbers of copies sold tells you anything of value.

It's all pure speculation. Based on the official statements coming from the PR departments, neither denying nor confirming the downsizing of Bioware Montreal, it seems their sales projections haven't been met. Which still doesn't mean they didn't make a profit and are abandoning the franchise. It only means, they stopped to analyze where to go from here. If the rumors had been totall untrue, any PR department worth it's money, would have stepped up to counter them vehemently. Being non commital as they are, doesn't cut it.

Edit: After watching the video, I see that YonYea takes all of this into account. I'd say he did a pretty decent job with the data being available to him.

You are aware that EA sells a lot of brands? It says nothing on a particular brand but on overall performance.

Am I missing something, or is 2.6-3.5m now "millions less" than 3m?

Because I'm fairly sure that's not how maths works...

There's a breakdown of how they got the 1.14 in the article, all you have to do is pull out a calculator and do the math.

You don't need the Kotaku article for anything other than them not denying what it says. Which only happens if it's true or not entirely false. Otherwise their whole machinery would be on high alert denying it.

DA4? Who's going to develop it? Edmonton is developing their new IP, so DA4 is a rumor at best, not even in the stages of early development. Upgrading the game is called customer service. If they hadn't done that, they could just as well pack up and leave. Them never admitting to anything being wrong storywise is also business as usual. What do you expect hem to say. Them being their PR department, to be perfectly clear, since there's no business in the world publishing unfiltered messages.

Are you for real? His numbers don't match their own data. I'm sure you can add his numbers up well enough but what source is it? DPFHA? Their own charts? The site your quoting says that MEA did better than DAI and your conclusion is that MEA did worse?

Well that's not exactly what he said.  He said the game is just now getting to 3.5 million sold when they said it would sell three million the first week, and that total would be 30 - 50% of the total sales, which would be 6 - 9 million.  He's just saying that if they're behind the initial pace they'll fall millions short of the 9 million projection.  Don't think he ever said it was a resounding failure, just that he didn't think it would hit expectations.

9 million seemed too high for me when I saw the article months ago.  Pretty lofty expectations, when ME:3 sold six million to people anxious to see how Shepard's story ended.  How did they think a reboot of the series would do 50% better?

1.03 million.  So this doesn't even match what you said their site said.  So obviously they're calculating this in a certain way, which I'll assume were the same for both articles.