Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 Redux by GCN

Dragon Age: Inquisition debuted at No. 5 in UK in its first launch week. According to retail monitor Chart-Track, it had sold almost the exact amount of launch week copies as 2011's Dragon Age II.[92] This does not take into account direct digital download sales however,[93] which have been noted to be a "significant percentage of sales" by BioWare[94] and thus the true number of sales is higher. According to Electronic Arts' fiscal 2015 third quarter earnings report, Dragon Age: Inquisition is the most successful launch in BioWare history based on units sold.[95]

Mass Effect: Andromeda was the third-best-selling game of March 2017.[132] It led the United Kingdom in physical sales during its first two weeks of release.[133] As of August, it was the seventh best-selling game of the year.[134] However, it eventually dropped out of the year-end top ten.[135] The game had the second-best physical launch in the series after Mass Effect 3.[132] Andromeda’s digital revenues only increased by mid-single-digit percentages against 2012’s Mass Effect 3, despite substantial growth in digital sales since then. Further, Andromeda on PC sold less than the 349,000 PC digital units Mass Effect 3 sold in its launch month.[136]

Prior to the release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Blake Jorgensen projected that it would sell 3 million units before the end of March, and 6 to 9 million units during its lifetime.[137] BioWare General Manager Aaryn Flynn predicted that it would sell at least 5 million copies worldwide.[138] Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter estimated that Mass Effect: Andromeda sold at least 2.5 million units in its opening quarter, resulting in $110 million in revenue.[139] The closest that EA has come to noting an exact figure was in their fourth quarter (Q4) of fiscal year 2017 (FY17) notes for investors, which stated that $53 million of the game's net sales related to its special editions were to be captured in Q1 FY18 instead of Q4 FY17 (the quarter of its release) for accounting purposes.[140]

During EA's Q3 FY18 earnings call on January 30, 2018, EA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Andrew Wilson was asked a general question about the company's non-sports titles, which had performed below expectations. As part of his answer, Wilson noted, "...if you look at Mass Effect [Andromeda], while there was some polarizing sentiment in that franchise, it's actually performed really well, and player engagement is really strong."[141]

Anthem has failed to meet Electronic Arts' sales expectations. With a target set at 6 million copies to be sold by the end of March, EA CEO Andrew Wilson said Anthem did not reach the sales goal, while EA CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted that more money was expected to come from the game's microtransactions as well.[55] In June 2019, Andrew Wilson reiterated how Anthem was not working as planned in keeping players engaged, although he stated that BioWare would continue to support the game.[56]
Commercial performance

Anthem topped retail sales charts in the UK during its first week of release, although its total launch week retail sales matched half of those of BioWare's previous game Mass Effect: Andromeda.[57] In Japan, Anthem reached the top of the sales charts with 78,000 copies sold at launch.[58] In North America, according to NPD data tracking, "Anthem represents the second-highest launch month sales ever recorded for a BioWare developed game, trailing only the March 2012 release of Mass Effect 3".[59]

Anthem was at the top of PS4 downloaded video games via PlayStation Store by March 2019.[60] SuperData reported that the game had earned over $100 million in digital revenue in February 2019, of which $3.5 million came from in-game purchases.[61] 

Sadly we do not have all the data and unless EA releases all of the data we will have an incomplete picture. However from what can be gathered on launch all 3 of these games were close if not out sold Mass Effect 3 for the same time period.  And the sales drop off on ME:A and Anthem are due to the game specific issues that exist or existed. Like the shitty facial animation and lot of bugs on release for Andromeda. Or the aimless boring and repetitive story in Anthem.  All of them were financial successes but not as much critical successes.

So if your logic that because of ME3 is broke the series and killed people's willingness to play games by BioWare then these games should not have been able to reach the same level as Mass Effect 3's launch.  But they did reach that level and it was only AFTER players got their hands on the individual games and actually played them and reviews and opinions started to form around them based on the individual games did the sales drop off.  Mass Effect 3 didn't hurt Andromeda. It was Andromeda that hurt Andromeda and the game sales prove this.