Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

It's relliable, top marketing company. It includes presales and a few days of sales up until November 2nd. It is, though, not as rosy as a lot of people make out. This is a US chart remember

Metaphor, for example, gets a lot of its sales from Japan which Veilguard will not get. So Metaphor selling lets say 2 million copies (generous). At least half of that is in Japan which Veilguard won't get, so 1 million copies. Let's say Metaphor sold 1 million copies excluding Japan in October. Veilguard sold less during by far the period it sells the most.

It's also reportedly doing very badly in Europe.

So yeah. You're probably looking at what, less than a couple of million? It's not great. I'm looking at reddit though and someone's like "Woooo 12 million by May" *rolls eyes*. People really need to learn how to read charts

EDIT: Jesus even Croatsky up above says Veilguard sold more than 1.5 million because it sold more than Sonic which sold 1.5 million. No. It outsold Sonic in the US but Sonic has Japan numbers to boost the numbers up. Like for real people ...

I also love that suddenly Japanese markets are very relevant to Veilguard's success. Most western games never perform well in that region so why does it become that important for Veilguard. Goalpost logic is weird. I understood what they were trying to say but still..

If you are talking about mine. There is a bit of act 1 stuff and DAI/Trespasser. The rest is 100% speculation.

I don't want to be that guy, but because I often have to look at stats and figures, I need to ensure there's clarity with these types of things.

It was only until yesterday that Sega announced that Sonic X had reached 1.5M in sales, and this was worldwide sales (not U.S.). This was not for the month of October alone. Again, I do this strictly for clarities sake.

That being said, Metaphor: ReFantazio sold 1M units on the first day of the games release, which was Oct 11. Very likely, the game has likely reached 2M units sold by now, if not more. What's interesting here in the data you presented is that, on Playstation & Xbox, Veilguard actually OUTSOLD Metaphor in the October sales market.





So, I think there's pretty good chance that the game [Veilguard] did indeed reach 1.5M units sold in it's first 5 days of launch (this graph includes up to Nov 2)

What are you talking about? Did I say this? I said that worldwide numbers are not comparable when taking one region specifically because one game sells in different portions of the world at a much higher rate. It's not a hard concept

2 million is my estimate for Metaphor. Persona 5 sold what, 8 milion in 7 years. So probably comparable numbers because while Metaphor has hype and is newer, Persona has brand loyalty. It also sells much higher in Japan. Take a look at steamcharts for Metaphor, it's not as strong a title in the West as it is in Japan but that's okay.

So when you take into consideration this is a US chart it stands to reason. I think 2 million for Veilguard up until present day is a nice, generous estimate

EDIT: Okay Metaphor topped the Japanese charts in its first week with 100k physical copies sold, which doesn't include digital copies. That's not as high as I thought but most likely 20 or 25+% still from Japan depending on how many people buy digital copies 

Probably not a bad bet. Then again, nothing speaks more clearly than getting those estimates straight from EA/BioWare themselves.

My calculation was steamchart numbers times 7, then double it because consoles (90*7*2), and then multiply by 2 again because everyone said it sold much more on consoles. So 1-2 million first couple of weeks has always been my guess. 

Considering how few people finished DAI. I think it's  more the later then the former. 

IGN didn't say Veilguard's steam figures were not included in their article. IGN's article puts an asterisk next to every game where digital sales were partially or wholly excluded, and those titles were Super Mario Party in 7th, The Legend of Zelda in 12th, and Minecraft in 16th

www.ign.com/articles/october-2024-sales-charts-call-of-duty-black-ops-6-sparks-xbox-game-pass-subscription-surge

Got a game update... at least that's what the EA App said... took a while to download. Having said that, I'm actively engaged in a side-quest to clear the  

 This reminds me of a certain area in DAI.....