How much did Baldur's Gate 2 sell?

[Lyric Suite]

I wonder how it compares with the Dragon Age numbers:

XBOX 360
Week 1 - 335,941
Week 2 - 173,230
Week 3 - 96,340
Week 4 - 134,460
Week 5 - 107,755

PS3
Week 1 - 155,660
Week 2 - 72,304
Week 3 - 80,920
Week 4 - 77,414
Week 5 - 59,219

Dragon Age 2

XBOX 360
Week 1 - 392,508
Week 2 - 128,897
Week 3 - 61,735

PS3
Week 1 - 163,410
Week 2 - 61,210
Week 3 - 35,455

PC
Week 1 - 148.830
Week 2 - 38.002
Week 3 - 26.165

I thought console games sold in the order of millions. Those figures aren't that impressive.

 

[Cynic]

fucking LOL @ week 3 sales for DA2. Yep, honest reviews of shit games hurt sales, who would have thought?

 

[Jaesun]

Where are you getting this data?

 

[Lyric Suite]

Where are you getting this data?

They were posted here. Forgot which thread.

 

[Jaesun]

They are fake magical numbers. I can come up with fake magical numbers too. So can you.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Quick google search:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/ ... ge-2-Sales

 

[Jaesun]

That is not actual sales data, just FYI.

 

[Lyric Suite]

They are actual sale numbers. Shut the fuck up.

 

[Mastermind]

They are fake magical numbers. I can come up with fake magical numbers too. So can you.

Butthurt detected.

 

[Jaesun]

They are actual sale numbers. Shut the fuck up.

VGCharts is NOT actual sales data. VGCharts makes up some magical numbers and then posts them as fact (which they are NOT).

 

[Admiral jimbob]

They are actual sale numbers. Shut the fuck up.

VGCharts is NOT actual sales data. VGCharts makes up some magical numbers and then posts them as fact (which they are NOT).

There is no valid citation, only genius
- Lyric Suite

 

[oldmanpaco]

Also remember that DA:O was released in the holiday season with a massive ad blitz before hand.

 

[Volourn]

BG2 sold 2.5-3mil copies over its entire lifetime.


"I thought console games sold in the order of millions."

Nah. The majority of console games don't. In fact, MS considers games that sell .5mil copies for their 'platinum hit' series.

As for VGChartz, it's a joke. Made up numbers are made up numbers.

 

[Seolas]

BG2's sales were pretty great considering it was PC only (consolepopamolemania hadn't erupted yet anyway) and didn't have the sort of mainstream advertising you see now (ie, Dragon Age 2 was a sponsor of WWE Raw a few weeks ago).

 

[Cynic]

"I thought console games sold in the order of millions."

Nah. The majority of console games don't. In fact, MS considers games that sell .5mil copies for their 'platinum hit' series.

Who are their main competitors in the console fantasy genre "niche"? Oh that'd be Square Enix. How many copies did the very shitty FFXIII sell? Around 5.5 million (pretty much all on ONE PLATFORM). How many copies did FFXII sell? Around 4.6 million, again one ONLY PS2!

FFXIII had sold over 1 million copies in the first 4 days. So Bioware wants to be getting 4.5 million in sales? They should try making BETTER games, not fucking shit games. Is it so hard to understand basic kindergarten logic?

Oh and who did they bag out for making a "linear" game before releasing DA2? That'd also be Squenix for FFXIII, then they release a 1 dungeon, 1 room copy & paste bugged out lolfest and expect it to get 4.5 million in sales?

r00fles!

 

[Volourn]

It also had the advantage of being D&D.

Then again...

 

[DriacKin]

So Bioware wants to be getting 4.5 million in sales? They should try making BETTER games, not fucking shit games. Is it so hard to understand basic kindergarten logic?

Apparently you failed kindergarten. History has shown us numerous times that there is little to no correlation whatsoever between the quality of the product and the sales figures.

 

[DriacKin]

So Bioware wants to be getting 4.5 million in sales? They should try making BETTER games, not fucking shit games. Is it so hard to understand basic kindergarten logic?

Apparently you failed kindergarten. History has shown us numerous times that there is little to no correlation whatsoever between the quality of the product and the sales figures.

 

[Volourn]

No way now how does BIO really expect to compete with SS espicially none of their past games save mabe ME2 got past 4mil.

People really like to make up numbers, take things out of contextm, and also throw in nonsensical other companies for some shit reason.

LMFAO

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Too much .

 

[Cynic]

Explain why they would not try to compete with the largest name in the fantasy genre on the consoles. Oh wait they wanted the CoD crowd. Right. Fuck that shit makes me laugh. Also I didn't make up any numbers, Japanese companies routinely report on their sales figures and I'm pretty damn sure Laidlaw said he was expecting above 4 million.

 

[Jaesun]

Japanese companies routinely report on their sales figures

Reporting sales figures and actual sales figures are two different things. The company I worked for also routinely reported some sales figures. And every time I read one of our public announcements of sales figures I went r00fles! Because I had access to our actual sales data.

 

[Haba]

Japanese companies routinely report on their sales figures

Reporting sales figures and actual sales figures are two different things. The company I worked for also routinely reported some sales figures. And every time I read one of our public announcements of sales figures I went r00fles! Because I had access to our actual sales data.

Jap companies actually tend to report their sales data as sales figures (at least in smaller circles). Weird folks.

Anyway, # of copies sold is asshat measure anyway, tells nothing about the actual profit.

 

[Jaesun]

Japanese companies routinely report on their sales figures

Reporting sales figures and actual sales figures are two different things. The company I worked for also routinely reported some sales figures. And every time I read one of our public announcements of sales figures I went r00fles! Because I had access to our actual sales data.

Jap companies actually tend to report their sales data as sales figures (at least in smaller circles). Weird folks.

The thing is, are they reporting ACTUAL sales data. No company I know of does this. Take for example the company I used to work for:

Public News: We sold over 400 units of Product X in 6 months!
Me: (Check actual sales data. Units actually sold in over 6 months 1000). It's is really weird how they sometimes word things to the public....

 

[Kaanyrvhok]

They are actual sale numbers. Shut the fuck up.

VGCharts is NOT actual sales data. VGCharts makes up some magical numbers and then posts them as fact (which they are NOT).

I know the developers of NBA Live and Elite follow vgchartz's numbers. One of the devs mentioned on operationsports.com that they are close enough to NPD.