EA reveals sales results for Army of Two: The 40th Day, Dante’s Inferno and Mass Effect 2

In a conference call, Electronic Arts revealed the sales results for Army of Two: The 40th Day, Dante’s Inferno and Mass Effect 2.

[mjolliffe]

To be honest, I was expecting Dante's to sell a few more than The 40th Day...

[Carlton Banks]

I thought it sold 2 million O_o

[Redrum059]

MassEffect2 wouldv sold 3 million minimum if it went multiplat, the audience for that great rpg just isn't on the 360 fanbase. EA has no choice bit to bring it over to the PS3 if they want sells. With all the ME2 ads on tv and they still managed to sell very little (on 2 platforms) just proves that 360 fans are more familiar with the fps, halo, and gears. EA needs this game on PS3 if they want sales to shoot to the roof.

[DaTruth]

VGChartz at its best! 2 million first week; Yeah right!

Anyone gonna tell me they're anything but random guesses!

[ravinash]

how many copies of dragon age was sold.
Same company, similar game.
The main differences are that it was a new IP and it was on the PS3 as well.
I'm sure if EA and Bioware looked at the numbers and saw that proportionately ME2 would get this many sales because dragon age sale had this many percent of the total sales to PS3.
If it were high enough then that would only push them further into the idea of creating a PS3 version.

The game is already on the Unreal engine, so it would be just a matter of converting it, fine tuning it for the PS3 and BluRay and testing it. So they have already done most of the investment when the created the game.

[trikster40]

Dragon Age sold over 3 million on all platforms, but it did come out during Christmas. Not sure ME2 would have hit 3 millions just by adding the PS3 user base, but it definitely would have sold at least 750k more units.

[lord_of_balrogs]

Redrum, so if ME2 was on the PS3 it would of sold 1.4 million more? The RPG audience is more on the 360 then the PS3. Dragon Age sold twice as much more on the 360 so I doubt ME2 would of sold more on the PS3 over the 360.

[Lou-Cipher]

It is a damn shame that a game that scores so high at Metacritic does only 1.6 Million across two consoles. (talking about Mass Effect 2)

I guess quality doesn't sell games anymore. This is why game developers are still creating such garbage and getting away with billions of dollars in sells.

[Minimox16]

did you know a game called "Call of Duty MW 2"?

[FURY__UNLEASHED]

Uncharted 2 has the same metascore and it's only on ONE console (PS3) but literally sold double the amount of units as ME2. So much for "360 exclusives ALWAYS sell more than PS3 exclusives."

Uncharted 2 sold well over 3 million.
Mass Effect 2 sold 1.6 million.

Both are great games, I'm just keeping the 360 fanboys in line by providing logic that busts their stupid myths like the one about 360 exclusives selling more than PS3 exclusives.

[SuperM]

bullsh1t. If mass effect wasnt so good it wouldnt sell as much as it did. Look at dante's inferno. Game was only decent and it hasnt even sold a million. If it was high quality it would have sold alot more.

[Lou-Cipher]

Im not trying to say that 1.6 isn't alot, but for a game that is sitting at 96 on Metacritic (one of the highest rated games this gen)it should be well above that.

Compare Mass Effect 2(96@Meta) to Final Fatasy 13 (83@Meta)and you will see just how much quality gets rewarded compared to advertising.

FF13 sold 3 times as much as Mass Effect 2 did with a significantly smaller score. you can say the same about alot of games.

Game developers have relized that they dont need to make great games anymore to make money, they only need to make mediocre games with big advertisements to make money. It sucks, but it is so very true.

[f4nb0i]

Doesnt the article say 1.6 Million sales on ****PC****? So way over that for the total sales including 360?

-edit -> source seems to suggest total :-O

[raztad]

@Luo-Cipher

Bro you are overlooking a little detail: FFXIII is on PS3 along with the xbox while ME is PC/xbox only.

EA is a multiplat company, and heavily support the PS platform, I dont see it allowing such a high quality franchise to underperform (sales-wise) restricting it to the PC/xbox realm.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

in addition to what raztad said, FF is an established franchise with a huge following spanning over a decade. You can't compare a newly established franchise like ME to that.

In fact, I would be wondering what is going on with FF if it didn't sell more.

[Inside_out]

I'm done with EA...own ME1...BUT...did not buy ME2...no matter how amazing it looks...No more EA titles for me...I hope they lose everything...Pay for Demo's...trying to stop used games...Greedy scum...Why should EA get any part of a re-sale...they already made their money...this will hurt them in the long run...I HOPE...

Ubi-soft is very close to losing my money too...I know, 1 person, but I refuse to hand over my name, address, date of berth, male female,where I live, postal code, how often I play, how many games I own, how many brand this and that...NOW, they want people to pay for demo's...I bought SC C and you have to join U-play, an ubi-soft invasion of privacy group, to unlock weapons, an entire multi-player mode and other " freebies"...Here where I live, they can't ask you those questions on a job interview...Done with these clowns...

[Jerk120]

Hey, yeah, let's try to ruin an amazing company like BioWare.

[kneon]

Actually charging for online for used games makes some sense from a business perspective. When they work out the budget for a game they have to factor in the lifetime cost of keeping the game servers running for online play. For most games the gamer will buy the game and play it for a few weeks or months and then move on, only occasionally going back online. But with used games that stretches out the online usage. They didn't get any extra for the used game but they have to provide more online service than they would have if it had not been re-sold.

The only question for me is whether the amount they are charging is fair for the value they provide the customer.

A better solution would be to reduce the initial price of the game and charge for online separately. But I know what will happen then, they would drop the price $5 and charge $10 for online to make up the revenue lost to all those who didn't pay for online.

[brazilianbumpincher]

That the majortity of the 360 user base are fps fans,look at the highest selling games and there all shooters,people on this thread are acting all shocked I'm confused

[Christopher]

I'm surprised because it's a great game and is available on PC and 360. I expected an easy 3 million for ME2 in its first quarter, but it seems to be if it isn't a shooter or a keynote title (FF, GoW, Halo), it won't do the 3m+ numbers.

[Jack Klugman]

the highest selling game on the ps3 is a shooter. enough with that. are you expecting halo numbers? what kind of numbers do rpgs usually pull in on any console?? people on this thread are acting all shocked like that is a bad number for an rpg.

[Christopher]

It's not about highest selling or game type, ME2 is a great game and deserves better sales, IMHO. That's all. Problem is, just being a great game with a AAA budget won't cut it nowadays. Especially to see it sell only half a million higher than the fairly lackluster Army of Two: The 40th Day.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

....

[Consoldtobots]

thats because they thought it would outsell every PS3 exclusive this year.

egg meet face

[Sevir04]

the NPD result showing 800k from the 360 was acurrate with the PC version picking up the remainder. so, 1.6 million sold with a shipped 2 million is damn good. Still the game hasn't broke a million on consoles so.

[DaTruth]

Notice the difference between PS3 owners and 360 owners!

PS3 owners: Why did this awesome game only sell this much!

360 owners: Lolz, only 1.6 million! This game is teh flopshow! Thought this game was suppose to sell teh ten million day one. All teh hype!

And they hate PS3 fanboys?

[Syronicus]

No wonder why there are so many rumors of ME2 comming to PS3... Hardly any xboxfans supported the game.

[dangert12]

i espected mass effect 2 sell more true say i haven't even got it i'm jjust waiting for another price drop on it ^_^

[Lucreto]

I held off buying it as well just in case the rumours of a PS3 version is true.

If nothing comes out of E3 or Gamescom I will buy it then.

[dangert12]

think ms will try hard to keep it better of getting it for the 360 if you got the 1st one anway cause the 1st one deofo ain't going on ps3

[Lucreto]

If Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 got a port even though they were published by MS. I expect EA could find a way to do the same.

[vasilisk]

ms will not try hard to keep it.

http://www.ps3center.net//n...

890K is far from a system seller, so it won't hurt them as much sales-wise, mostly their image.
It will definitely come to the ps3

@Lucreto

The publisher of a certain game on a certain platform is not binding to which platforms the game will appear. MS could publish the Xbox version and EA can publish the PS3 version. It all comes down to IP rights and those belong to EA. Remember the orange box? EA published the PS3 version. It is common for an IP to have different publishers across different platforms

[Lucreto]

Thats true. I remember Grandia in the PS1 era had 3 different published for the game and Demon Souls was published by Atlas but Namco is publishing it in Europe.

On a unrelated note. FF XIII outsold ME2. Some people are not going to like that.

On VGchartz (Yes I know Lolvgchartz)

FF XIII sold 3.56 million in the US and EU in 8 weeks and according to the story here ME 2 sold 1.6 million in the two regions in 10 weeks.

That being said they could have cause up in the 7 weeks since.

Edit: I just say the link in the post above so I can revise the figures with the US numbers and vgchartz EU sales.

FF XIII sold 2.6 million not 3.56 million I have above.

VG chartz have overstated th US numbers by 230,000 and the PS3 numbers by 170,000.

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

with out the possibility to do the import feature with your ME1 character.

Those are pretty good sales for Me2, NOt crazy or anything but pretty good.

[Bathyj]

I misread it and thought it said Mass Effect did 1.6M on PC.

"WHAT!" I thought.

Its OK, I read it properly now.

[piroh]

"Mass Effect 2 has sold 1.6 million units on the PC (including digital downloads) and Xbox 360"
i was expecting mass effect sold more, according to vgchartz all the sales was for xbox version, there really are pirates, they need port the game to ps3 next time

(i think 1.59 million for xbox and 10 000 for pc version)

[cmrbe]

did this number by it self on the PS3 in the same timeframe and yet x360 fans were calling it a flop lol

[Nike]

LittleBigPlanet sold 3 million copies in about 1 year, 8 months (these figures were announced just recently).

Mass Effect 2 sold 1.6 million copies in less than 5 months (figures above for all to see).

You seem to think it sold that much in the same time frame. Do you have proof to back up your words?

[HolyOrangeCows]

-_-

VGChartz doesn't keep up with PC sales because most of it is digital and those stiffs refuse to reveal their sales numbers.

[Theonik]

Makes sense tbh. You wouldn't like it if you realised how much money DD makes in comparison to conventional media by eliminating distribution costs. Hence how steam can afford such great discounts all the time.

[Spiderman]

10,000 for PC only ? Sure lol

Considering battlefied bad company 2 has like 2 million unique PC players i guarentee ME2 sold at least 500,000 on PC and 1mill+ on 360.

[piroh]

cmrbe - if we are comparing first Mass effect to LittleBigPlanet, then ME sold 2.2 million, LBP sold 3.36 million

HolyOrangeCows - those sales from EA are combined PC (retail+digital) and xbox so PC sold almost nothing i think

Spiderman - it's combined and according to VGchartz.com almost all the sales are for xbox version
http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

[Spiderman]

VG Chartz dont track PC game sales..

[vasilisk]

couldn't be more wrong...
http://www.ps3center.net//n...

890K for X360
710K left for the PC version.

[champ21]

Bought the PC version along with 3 other friends.

[4Sh0w]

Its confirmed by NPD that ME2 sold 890k in the US on 360 by the end of March 31st.= http://www.gamasutra.com/vi...

lol, and I highly doubt it didn't sell a decent amount in the rest of the world for Q1....in fact it was the best seller in the UK when it launched for 2 weeks in a row until Bioshock2 was released.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010...

That leaves all of Europe, and other territories besides Japan(not released in Japan) in which vg chartz listed ME2 sales at approxmitely 440k at the end of March= http://www.vgchartz.com/gam... so that would put 360 sales for ME2 at 1.3mil at the end of Q1 worldwide, so if EA's is saying its 1.6mil ww for both 360 and PC then thats less than 300k for PC sales total.

[piroh]

this is what i meant
EA next time bring the game to PS3, you can be only profitable

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

that number for 360 doesn't include the rest of the world. So your PC number is off.

But 1.6 million total so far is pretty good.

EDit-- how cany people disagree with that guy up there when they know they are wrong.

So far ME2 has sole 890K on 360 in north America alone. The other 800K is made up of PC sales and some 360 sales from europe.

[mrv321]

You expect 10,000 on the PC? Really, it probably did atleast 50,000 on steam.

[Jack Klugman]

the last thing any playstation avatar goomba should be talking about is game sales.. not coming to the ps3 you can bet on that..

[VenGencE999]

lol, a game company not trying to make more money by going multi? I'll take that bet! These companies don't care about fanboys, only money...

[cmrbe]

that a game that ranked as high as ME2 only sold 1.6 on both the x360 and PC.

[FlipMode]

That's less than I thought it would sell. (ME2)

[Blacktric]

1.6 million total copies for ME 2 is a bit dissapointing actually. I thought that game would be sold more than 2 million copies now considering how awesome it is.

[caffman]

i bought dantes and ME2 and since are both single player games I don't really care if anyone else has them.

[saimcheeda]

im surprised by the weak numbers, Dante's Inferno 'almost 1 million' and ME 2 only 1.6 million! what happened?

[Coheno]

ME2 sales are from launch til end March... but they shipped 2.6 million

[Sevir04]

at the end of the first quarter ME2 sold about 890K in the states on the 360, so that leaves the PC to pick up sales so that prolly 710k which im guessing s both digital and retail PC...

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

890k on 360 in NORTH AMERICA ALONE. You know the number NPD reports.

The rest are PC and Europe 360 sales.

edit- Unless tht 1.6 million sold isnt WW sales, but I thingk it is.

[Coheno]

Wauw Dante's Inferno and The 40th Day did badly!

[Theonik]

1M isn't bad. Considering neither of them were high budget games. Sure they didn't make a huge profit but they didn't lose a lot of money either.

[mrv321]

These are units sold, 1 million at $60 is quite a bit, that works out at like 20 million atleast I;d imagine which probably cover the development of the games considering Dante's inferno is a side project to DeadSpace 2 and The 40th day is a sequel from like 2 years ago.

[Karum]

Very surprised at the numbers for ME2. Don't get me wrong, 1.6m copies is a lot of sales and likely enough to be considered a commercial success but with all the hype built up around the game on the internet, I expected it to do more, especially as this was pushed as one of the major Microsoft Exclusive titles for 2010. Or at least it certainly seemed that way.

Still, 1.6m is good numbers in my view although maybe not what the developer/publisher was hoping for....I'd imagine they were looking to grow the franchise more based off the success of the first game.

[MexicanAppleThief]

Seriously have no idea why Mass Effect sold that little, 1.6m is good but should be like atleast 3m. That game has a metacritic of 96 for crying out loud, why isn't more people buying this game?!?!

Bit of a shame for 40th day and Dante's Inferno, hope those games got good legs for the developers sake.

[sajj316]

Third party exclusives will die this year. Third party exclusive DLC is another story. You will see the ME franchise on PS3.

[mittwaffen]

EA this year with your lame buy new or pay to play..

You wont want people to know your sales...

[BeaArthur]

I don't think anyone likes their new spin on used games but you can't blame them. The developers get hosed if you buy it used.

[Hank Hill]

They need to quit whining about used game sales. Car companies don't complain about used car sales.

[silvacrest]

i dont no why some devs complain about that

almost everything sold used wont see that profit go towards the original seller, why should games be any different?

[BeaArthur]

Hank Hill...true but used cars depreciate and loose their value where a new game is worth just as much as a used game. A dealer wouldn't complain because they have the new "fancier" edition 6 months later that they can sell. The developer mean while might have to wait 2 or 3 years before the next installments revenue. Hey, I buy used games too but I understand their point.

[mittwaffen]

they want to milk us of every cent they can.

[wissam]

Was a complete failure of a game in the history.

[sikbeta]

What do you expect? It was A Damn/Lame God of War Copycat...

[Hank Hill]

"Mass Effect 2 has sold 1.6 million units on the PC (including digital downloads) and Xbox 360"

If a hyped PS3 exclusive only sold 1.6 million the other side would call it a flop so does that mean that Mass Effect 2 is a flop? The PS3 has the highest selling HD exclusive this year and with LBP2 and GT5 coming this year that won't change.

[silvacrest]

what makes this worse is this is PC and 360 sales combined, even including digital sales

1.6 mil is not awful but for a multiplat with such a high score, it disappointing

[BeaArthur]

Is it necessary to constantly be flaming? You can't evaluate the sales without trying to take a cheap shot? You are perpetuating not helping. We all know what the other side always says, you don't need to bring it up at every opportunity.

[jakethesnake]

Couldn't agree more Bea (+bubbles). Why does everything turn into PC vs 360 vs PS3. Can't people just care about - oh I don't know - the games?

Instead of constantly defending your console choice or attacking someone elses - go pick up a great game to play - like ME2. You'll be happier that way. I promise.

[gravv]

1.6 millions mean more chances mass effect on PS3

[Pillville]

Mass Effect 2 was a single player game, so I'm guessing sales were greatly affected by pirating.

There are a LOT of banned console out there that people use for offline single player games.

[lowcarb]

I guess PS3 owners on this site and others didn't pick it up for PC after all. 1.6 is great and I don't see anyone complaining about PS3 games that took awhile even with hype just to pass a million.

[sikbeta]

First, You never know, probably they bought the game used or they pirated the game, so? and
Second, you really Wanna talk about hype?
Remember the hype surrounding AW and it's "Incredible Powaarful Graphicz" or the hype of Metro2033, named by "some" x360 supporters "da KZ2 graphciz killa!" or the hype of every MULTIPLAT Game, aka Available on more than One Console, like Bayonetta, should I go on?

[kraze07]

I bought the collector's edition for the PC. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only PS3 owner from N4G that picked it up.

[DevastationEve]

...yet to you PS3 gamers it's only one way. When you guys do the same thing it's always "factual".

Hell my friends were all over God of War 3 until I brought over Ninja Blade one day and we all had a blast and the other guys even said they liked the QTEs in it better.

Of course that's just our experience but we still shouldn't be any less entitled to how the game ultimately made us feel.

PS3 gamers especially need to just lay off their whole superiority views.

[sparta76]

Lmao!!! If ur saying your friends Enjoyed ninja blade more then God of war, then there blind or wear helmets!!

On topic; I was one of those that got me2 :) for my 360.
Dante was a good game too.

[silvacrest]

i'll be honest, i pirated it

twas very fun

[The Wood]

......cause they're waiting for the ps3 version. Seems you guys want it both ways....When its a ps3 game its one thing when its a 360 game...its still our fault...¬_¬

Hope it has long legs and the lack of multiplayer doesnt stop too many people from buying it. I still like the fact that there can be great single player games. I dont want multiplayer on everything.

[kraze07]

Only about 1.6 million people are enjoying the greatness that it Mass Effect 2. The rest of the human population must be a hive mind of idiots for not treating themselves to this gem of a game.

[VenGencE999]

Or maybe more people cared about how EA's greedy ass keeps trying new ways to gouge us for every dime. I would've bought it if not for how they did the Cerberus network. They thought more people would buy it new, instead we decided not to buy it AT ALL.
Same thing goes for AOT, with how you had to wait a month to unlock all the MP modes UNLESS you pre-ordered. Lame. Reward those that pre-ordered with bonus weapons or something, but don't punish those that didn't by withholding GAMEMODES!
Of course not all of us are mindless sheep that jump on the new game of the week/month bandwagon, some of us have integrity and principles...

[kraze07]

Mass Effect is a Bioware game. I really don't care if EA published it and I can't see the problem with rewarding the people who buy it new instead those that buy their games used or pirate them. You put the blame on them for trying to take our bottom dollar and yet it seems as if your supporting used game buyers, the same people who themselves are nickle and diming every last penny they have trying to save money buying cheaper, used games.

[asdr3wsfas]

"If your supporting used game buyers, the same people who themselves are nickle and diming every last penny they have trying to save money buying cheaper, used games."

That's what consumers do...hope you're driving a new car if you wanna make this argument.

Games that hold value aren't traded in. People still play Mario 3 on their original cartridge. If they had integrated ME1 into ME2 better they would have given people a reason to keep the original and play through each 3 times. As it stands the integration really changes nothing and so there's almost no difference despite the choices made in the first game.

Don't get me wrong, on my second playthrough of ME2 right now. Amazing game. But if they wanted to have the game stay off the used shelves changing the plot significantly depending on actions in the first would have added *immense* replay value.

[led1090]

hmm till march 31st ME2 had sold around a million copies on the 360 which means around 600 k on the PC. Not bad at all. It must have easily eclipsed the 2 million mark by now. Again i repeat these sales are only till the 31st of march

[Taker_129]

I rented ME2 from gamefly and its good but not the holy grail of gaming that I was led to believe.

[chak_]

that

I don't get how on earth this game has a 96 metacritics.

I'd personnaly give it around 70-80

[booni3]

So EA has still lost money on dantes inferno. is the game that bad?

[DevastationEve]

It controls very similarly to God of War and gets a lot of its ideas from similar games of the genre. Finishing moves, evade controls, stuff like that. I think PS3 gamers purposefully shun it in order to not put it in the same class as God of War as that would prove a multiplatform game to be its equal.

But also the media and reviewers didn't take to Dante so well, so maybe it's a good thing to wait and pay less for it. My experience so far is that it's pretty epic.

[VenGencE999]

Not at all my friend. Don't let some of the other brainwashed posters fool you. The game is fun and plays very similar to GOW3. Now don't get me wrong, GOW3 is the better game hands down, but Dante's is a fun game as well, without doubt. A lot of people act as sheep, they want to be part of the "in crowd", but I find it hard to believe if you enjoyed playing the GOW series, that you wouldn't like this game. It's a very, very good clone.

[jack_burt0n]

yes it is. immitation is not flattery when its an ugly deformed backward twin.

[nycredude]

What the heck are you two talking about. Maybe it didn't do well because GOW 3 was right around a corner. GOW 3 is hands down the superior game so why would I pay the same price for Dantes as GOW 3?

I bought GOW3 first and when Dantes price is at around $20 to $25 I'll buy.

[NYC_Gamer]

mass effect 2 should of sold way more than that...

[prettyboy1]

well i bought it for my pc.so i did my part in the gaming industry

[cheetah]

Poor sales for Mass Effect 2. Over 50% of that number would have been on PC so the 360 performed badly for a console exclusive. Hey EA, give me a version for my PS3 and I promise I will buy it.

[horndog]

is good for a game that's been out a little over 4 months. You guys act like it's sales have stopped at 1.6. 1.6 and counting.

I don't understand why so many ps3 fans here want it on the ps3 when they all have super high end computers that they can play it on.

[keysy420]

mass effect bet they wish it was on ps3 now

[ActionBastard]

ME2 is going to be on PS3.

[Sagetech]

http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

1.72 MILLION ON 360 ALONE? but the game's creators report that it's 1.6 mil across two platforms.... Do they(vg) pull numbers out of a hat?

[PirateThom]

Well, here's the thing.

Mass Effect 2 should have sold better but, given Mass Effect's sales, it's not really surprising, I doubt many people are going to jump into a series in the middle, but what can you do?

That said, in a way, the way they approached ME2 to make it more TPS than RPG makes me think they were trying to capture those big "bangy shooty" sales and failed. Maybe they'll make ME3 more like ME, you know, an RPG with shooter elements rather than a shooter with RPG elements.

[dizzleK]

the 40th Day was actually alot of fun, it reminded me of Freedom Fighters in alot of ways.