ME:A --> DLC --> MEA:2

That's not even a side note... nowhere does it say ME:A sold that amount in 30 days. Did you read the previous posts about how RE7 sales were worldwide while NPD was in the US?

Zelda came in second for March. It has a 1:1 attach rate to the Switch. It sold 925k in March.

Mass Effect was 5th.

Mass Effect sold LESS than 925k in its launch week. EA expected 3m. You do the math.

You need to read my first post on this:
bsn.boards.net/post/798177

I said nothing about LAUNCH NUMBERS.
The numbers were for April 27th -total up to that point.
ME:A was March 21st
RE7 was Jan. 24th.
So you get it right and do the math.
I am done with this.

Irrelvant data.
Also incase you didn't read:
i.imgur.com/YPYLr9G.gif

Also there's this, which also doesn't count digital sales, so....

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

Honestly I'm not 100% sure if this is accurate, but it's something I've found.

griffith82  kino Just let it go. It's obvious he doesn't want to listen, despite you guys giving out tons of evidence. 

This is just the West, though. Doesn't include China or Japan. Digital sales are around 35-40% based on what I've read. Probably not quite at the 3 million they wanted, but probably very close.

As for post-launch numbers, those always drop very fast, but I agree I'm sure they have a range that says "Yes, people are interested in the game" and outside the range is "No, it's not a widespread audience."

Finally someone with a constructive input instead of just bash-trolling and sure I will listen.

This has turned into a rigamarole...
Time to kill it now and make my point clear one last time:

As stated back a page suikoden & kino began the debate about sales numbers.
Kino linked the numbers for RE7 released on April 27 or somewhere close to that date.
ME:A numbers of sales was 5th just above RE7 and RE7 was at 3.5 mil.

THIS was the issue I had.
3 months for RE7 to get there.
30 Days or so for ME:A to get there.
Also being that they are not matching genre's works against it being balanced and unbiased.
suikoden got the whole thing riled up then by talking about the launch numbers and basically trolling me on to this page.
As I said before I do not care about launch day, week numbers only the FINAL numbers.

So basically MEA numbers are respectable....and not to put a damper on things here, but EA spent 40 million to make MEA right? And i'm sure they are looking to make back most of it's investment over the life of the game itself, and while Bioware is patching this game like crazy, i think what else is being lost here is that these patches are also expensive....these fixes cost the company every time these patches drop.

So they are still grinding against their profits a bit even if it is for the greater good of the game and for the fans themselves.....and if they sold at least over 3.5 million through April, after knowing this, it was still a bit puzzling for them not to mention any DLC at E3...even if it was Anthem's time to shine...

I think this is still overall positive for the franchise tho....3.5 million through April is respectable numbers and it doesn't show a huge dropoff in sales due to them crashing out of the gates with this. I still think the DLC  is coming at some point.


I'm not sure what EA expected to sell from the jump in 1st week sales, but at least they wasn't like how Square expected the Tomb Raider reboot to sell an astronomical amount and stated some unrealistic numbers to their investors....i don't know the exact numbers but i think Tomb Raider sold like 5 million? and square deemed that a failure due to them predicting something like 20 million in sales, when in fact 5 million is a VERY impressive feat....(sorry i don't know the true numbers in terms of the Tomb Raider story, but it was something along those lines)