How well is MEA selling?

Do you work at Bioware?   

From the polygon article linked: NPD's digital tracking service will still pull sales data from PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and Steam.  So no PC sales data for MEA (Origin is not tracked) and NPD is US only.

Saying that, I personally find it super interesting that MEA sold (in one week) more than Horizon Zero Dawn in the entire month of March. See Horizon Zero Dawn released on the first week of March and went to sell 2.6m in the two following weeks.

Considering HZD is a PS4 exclusive I don't find that very unexpected.

Well, it's only on one platform PS4.  I think the fact that it's that high on the list with games released on multiple platforms in pretty good.  

Disappointment is different from failure. I can't imagine they would actually lose money on this game.

As for disappointment, they must have adjust downward their expectation imo, since I didn't see much of a marketing campaign, and the way they handled the review embargo date. They couldn't have been caught off guard knowing the state of the game they released.

Seeing as Zelda is only on the Switch and WII U that nobody bought, MEA would definitely have been expected to outsell Zelda, seeing as it's on Xbox, PS4 and PC.

Platforms got nothing to do with my point.

OP is saying MEA was a financial disappointment because it sold 1.2m in the US only, but based on HZD selling more than 2.6m copies in March (2.6m was only for the first two weeks) and correlating MEA selling more than it in the US NPD chart for the month, that means MEA sold in March (a week and a few days) more than 2.6m copies world wide coming near if not even over EA expectations of 3m copies for that time period.

I will add that based on HZD first two weeks, it was trending to reach Uncharged 4 8.7m copies sold...no BioWare games ever sold that much.

I've never understood the italed argument. Are there more than a handful of idiots who would buy a game if it was on Steam but won't buy that game if it's only on Origin? Gamers are stupid, but I don't think they're that stupid.

None of that means that millions of games can't or aren't sold on Origin. I buy on both - generally wherever the price is best. 

Aaand? Just because the sold copies did not meat their expectation, it does not mean it failed.

Lets say there are just 1 million copie sold across all platforms across the whole world, that is still 60million $ in sales, which is 15million $ more then the project cost. That is not fail.

MEA is not a bad game, but it is unfinished, unpolished and bug infested like nothing else I played in the last 10 years. If "we" expected BW and EA to change their tactic about developing and releasing games (we see this since ME3), it would only work, if they did not sold more then 500k copies. That would hurt them and then they would have a meeting after meeting to brainstorm what went wrong and maybe realize what they did. But now? Business as usual.

Considering digital is the only way to get MEA on PC in 99.9% of the world (only a few EU countries have a retail version) and consoles still selling more retails than digital, no I don't think HZD has more digital sales than MEA PC version does. I'm also not sure how MEA can have the Playstation Network digital sales but HZD can't... And the trending with Uncharted 4 sales isn't from me, it's in the news about HZD selling 2.6m copies in the first two weeks.

You want fact, HZD sold twice as much copies in EU than the US, which going by the population number that makes total sense and I don't see why it would be different for any AAA release. It also mean that HZD sold about 800k-900k copies in March in the US. Setting MEA between 1m and 1.2m in that NPD chart and around 3m to 3.6m worldwide right on EA's target.

lol