Jaesun
Fabulous Ex-Moderator
I'd be willing to bet, in actual sales (with the highest margin of profit) was Mass Effect 2. There was ore interest in DA2 (because of the very very heavy marketing campaign on it) lead to more shipped games. I don't remember ME2 being as marketed as heavily as DA2 was. Seriously, every time I watched TV there was a fucking DA2 commercial on every 5 minutes. I just base this on my own experience as a person who did work in sales analysis.
Since this is the last of the Shepard Trilogy ™, I pretty much see EA moving this to another developer (and then naming them "BioWare") or dropping it all together. Though if it remains profitable regardless of the numbers it may stay on. I just don't know where EA draws the line on profitable. Though lately they more than likely will continue on with ANY game that is at least profitable as they haven't been doing very good lately.
I think ME3 will sell well, at least initially. We'll probably hear about how it broke 1 million units in a week or something like that. And then after about three weeks the hype will fade away. The reality of how broken the game is will have spread by word of mouth at that point, and sales will drop considerably. Overall it might hit 2 to 3 million units by March 2013, which I imagine will be well below both Bioware's and EA's expectations.
If ME3 does do that poorly, there will be repercussions at Bioware.
Since this is the last of the Shepard Trilogy ™, I pretty much see EA moving this to another developer (and then naming them "BioWare") or dropping it all together. Though if it remains profitable regardless of the numbers it may stay on. I just don't know where EA draws the line on profitable. Though lately they more than likely will continue on with ANY game that is at least profitable as they haven't been doing very good lately.