Mass Effect Andromeda has sold millions under sales projections

As much as I hate the circlejerk that is le Reddit, this thread has a lot of good data that essentially spits in the face of this guy's fake news level clickbait bullshit video.

To summarize le Reddit thread, ME:A sold slightly under expectations in its first week at ~2.7 million units sold out of the expected ~3 million, BUT, and this is a huge caveat, these sales numbers are physical only. There is currently no reliable sales data for digital copies regardless of the distributor, but it is safe to assume that the prevalence of digital sales is only ever increasing (especially on the PC platform) and could easily make up the ~.3 million deficit.

Not to mention that the numbers in 3rd party financial reports are always rounded down and calculated with the most pessimistic outlook possible in order to prevent artificial inflation of the company in question's stock prices.

To say that ME:A was a flop as a financial investment is an outright lie, and a malicious one at that.

using reddit for sales numbers is about as legitimate as using metacritic for review scores.

Not surprised in the least.

Hopefully bioware learns from this.

Man, YongYea is really doing his best to milk this cow for views. In fact, a majority of the hate dispensed for this game is because of that. It gets views.

His first few videos were fine, but this one is just a steaming pile.

You realize that I could simply say: "LOLZ!1 YOU TRUST THE YOUTUBEZ!!!1" and have the mirror of your argument, right? That's not an argument, that's a dismissive wave of the hand fueled by cognitive dissonance and some strange, illogical, internalized hatred for a piece of software. Disapproving of my source is not defeating my argument, but rather avoiding it.

The Reddit thread is grabbing information from the same source as that train wreck of a video + others + extrapolating numbers in a pessimistic but reasonable fashion. Not to mention, all sources are linked, unlike the video which only links to Patreon (lol, Internet beggar) and a few social media accounts. This vid is clickbait capitalizing on a Internet trend and not at all well researched or thought out in order to pimp out a donations account and maximize ad revenue. That speaks for itself, really. If this is the cause you chose to champion, at least find a better example of a solid argument; or you will end up dying on this hill.

Origin has a sizable installment base and physical sales of ME:A were nothing more than an Origin download code (at least in the U.S.), so yes, there are indeed a significant number of unaccounted for sales lying in digital distribution, like it or not. Not to mention that the game scales well on all modern GPUs from the past 5 or so years.

The author of the post also has a long history of being critical but reasonable with ME:A, but by all means, continue with on with the popular circlejerk of the autismo extraordinaire screeching that is the hatred for ME:A. I already know you will.

The guy doing the video linked to in the OP has too much time on his hands, lol.

What I am getting is that unless a game is #1 its utter garbage.  Even look at what is happening with Andromeda, people are assuming the game is doing horribly and not meeting expectations because it is not #1 for the week it was released.

After reading a link in that Reddit post I am wondering how accurate that three million number is now as well.  At the beginning of March Aaryn Flynn during an interview said he was only predicting a five million lifetime sales figure for Andromeda, while that three million first week and six million lifetime was announced a month earlier.  Both of those numbers are projections and can change easily, but if the five million number is the one EA was going by that means first week sales could have surpassed what they were expecting then if you go by the way some companies project with 50% of lifetime sales being in the first week.

Ah well, mindless speculation on my part.

It's like people can't do basic math or use calculators. $60 x 3,000,000 = $180,000,000. Now, given that $40,000,000 for development costs is correct. Nobody's stating that it's a financial failure.

What we are stating however, is that it's not selling well to those late adopters, because we have warned them off by going around screaming, "WARNING WILL ROBINSON, DANGER, DANGER!"

Which is a good thing if you ask me, because the game's a dumpster fire.

The Biower DTHCS is in full effect here, no surprise.

(Deep Throat Human Centipede Squad)

Again, that's overstating the revenue. EA only gets all $60 for an Origin sale..