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EA: Titanfall beat our sales expectations
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Miles Quaritch
Member
Based on what? UK guesstimates put the 360 version much lower than the X1 version.
112k (or 147k, I forget which) to 36k (first week sales) if I'm not mistaken.
considering its the most game I play on Xbox one " I also have KI that I play along with Forza 5", I will believe this.
this game is super fun and addictive. and currently all my gaming time is between Destiny and Titan Fall.
Too much logic for most of GAF.
Barkley's Justice
Member
Does it even matter what Xbox One did?
Isn't the point for EA to be profitable in their total Titanfall investment?
If 360 & PC push them into profitability, what does it matter? Aside from obvious future reductions in XB1/single console reliance.
But then again, I am sure EA was paid a handsome sum by MS for that exclusitivity.
This entire deal was likely low risk for EA. Aside from potential brand alienation by being associated to a sole next-gen console.
This is what I don't get. If the attach rate is as high as suggested in the is thread I can't see how it could possibly be a disappointment to MS.
old
Member
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that they don't want to reveal how many it sold because they are bidding with other publisher to publish the Titanfall franchise. By keeping that info privileged they can negotiate from an information advantage over their competing bidders. But that's me taking a complete stab in the dark.
Because it's more fun to pretend that MS and EA expected TitanFall to sell 10 million copies and for it to push Xbone into #1 and that only selling 1 million is a titanic misstep and that EA must really be licking Sony's boots right now?
famousmortimers' post was really enlightening on the mindset of people who were praying for TF to flop ever since it was announced at E3 2013.
richprice79
Neo Member
I bought the season pass for 25 bucks, I hope they have more DLC coming out that is interesting.
What did Mr. Dodd have to say? Positive or negative, it's interesting to look back and read posts by a guy who was only marginally more informed than the average GAFer and got outed for posting speculation as "insider info."
That Wont Fit In There
Member
Lol sike
http://gamingbolt.com/infamous-seco...cs-ea-sorry-for-not-bringing-titanfall-to-ps4
A cringey fanfiction-worthy mess of a post. (TitanFall's framerate on 360 was frequently better than TitanFall's framerate on Xbone, too).
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Finally got the game this weekend for Fathers Day, and we had a blast playing it.
I think Titanfall is going to be a big franchise this generation.
I think Titanfall is going to be a big franchise this generation.
Yeesh. Kinda blows my mind that he was posting this stuff for months and even tried to crowdfund his own gaming news site before the whole Driveclub incident blew up. Dude basically exploited the community for personal gain and stroking his ego after the well-intentioned anti-DRM campaigns.
Eh well whatever, I don't want to really single out the guy, I was just using that post as representative of a certain mindset. I actually hope that there's less 'insider' activity in general going forward. As this E3 showed, it's not a lot of fun when you know months in advance exactly what's going to be shown.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Sounds like a little fiction on your part as well.
I had taken you off my ignore list as of yesterday. I get your point, but this assertion? Nope.
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
360 version is miles behind.
Oop, a mess. Then I stand corrected, I thought in DF's face-off they found it was generally higher.
My impacT. As I said, I stand corrected.
Well attach rate on its own doesn't mean success that's all. Not saying it wasn't a success just that you can't use attach ratio in isolation.
For example 100 console sales and 90 sales of Game A would be an attach rate of 90% 1M console sales and 500K sales of Game A would be an attach rate of 50%. Now which would you prefer if you were MS/EA and which would you consider a success? The second option? Me too.
A high attach ratio is good but only if the underlying numerical volume is also good and people are still querying the level of success because EA are being coy with the numbers meaning its impossible to understand the relationship of attach ratio to underlying sales volume.
Again - to avoid the usual confusion - I'm not saying it wasn't a success just answering your question specific to attach rate and why people are still questioning the level of success.
John_RiticelloEA
Banned
Sorry, but the EA hate here is strong.
Also,l gaffers are MAD because Respawn didn't fellate PC gamers....
why do you all care about the numbers so much? even if you have it, there aint much to compare it with, considering they already said it is the best-selling game on Xbox One lifetime to date.
you don't know their sales expectations, you don't know how many copies they have bundled.
you don't know their sales expectations, you don't know how many copies they have bundled.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Great. So how about sp coop and a decent amount of content next time? Destiny alpha felt like a more complete game.
Aquamarine
Member
Some people here invest in EA and legitimately care about their financial / sales performance because it reflects on their stock price.
Other people follow sales closely and like to monitor the health of the industry.
Others like to measure the incredible hype behind EA as "The next Call of Duty" and its reality to see if the claims were unfounded or not
And other people...just care because why the hell not. As with every topic on NeoGAF.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
It's almost as if Bungie employs 500 people and Respawn, 60.
For real though, I agree that the game could have used a SP, but we are all familiar with the Final Hours of Titanfall piece by now, it seems we were lucky enough to get what we got
.I'm sure Titanfall would have had a lot more content if they spent half a billion dollars on it.
How much did it sell worldwide if it was so successful? Please provide the numbers.
Yet strangely I don't see these "investors" and "health monitors" in other threads about EA games, demanding cumulative sales totals for Plants Versus Zombies: Garden Warfare or Battlefield 4 or FIFA World Cup. Let's not kid ourselves about why people are demanding numbers.
perfectsil
Member
why would that be so unbelievable? more people are playing BF4 right now on PC than 360 or XB1.
PC 36,592
XBOX360 26,025
XBOXONE 22,422
http://bf4stats.com/
SwiftDeath
Member
Eh no sales numbers makes this pretty much a non-statement for me but whatever
Pegasus Actual
Member
Titanfall has that COD legacy of "they don't really care about us" from the PC community, regardless it's pretty clear that compared to the Xbox One version it's pretty sparsely populated just from matchmaking wait times. And how if you play PC a few nights in a row some of the player names get super familiar. It would be nice if they just put up the stats though, especially if it was broken down by data center.
It's not that hard to guesstimate. 1 million US retail for the first month plus Euro sales plus PC digital sales plus Xbox 360 sales. And you can pretty much assume that every Xbox One sold in the past couple months was a Titanfall bundle. That would probably put it between 2 and 3 million units. Perhaps even north of 3 million.
Even if they released the exact numbers, the naysayers would just move the goalposts as they did when March NPD came out. "Well that's not bad but it should have done better relative to the hype [please ignore the fact that I claimed the hype was manufactured anyway]."
GameAddict411
Member
I am pretty sure that EA now regret their exclusivity with the Xbox brand. It would have done much better if it was released on the Playstation brand.
GameAddict411
Member
What a terrible example.
Woo-Fu
Banned
I don't think this a case of wanting the game to be a failure. This is most likely a case of wanting numbers to show that it wasn't the savoir of the xbox one it was billed as.
I think knowing the numbers would make for a great discussion about system sellers. Probably a discussion that would cause many to adjust their opinions of what a system sell er is capable of nowadays.
As for why they don't want to give us the numbers I'm comfortable assuming it is because somebody else(tm) doesn't want those numbers out in the wild.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
Yep... fishy.
I like a game: The hype is from real, interested, enthusiastic fans and legitimately captured the attention of the press.
I dislike a game: Manufactured hype, a significant portion of the people who seem to like the game are actually just shills paid by the publisher.
Or something like that.
Disaster Nebraska
Banned
I'm glad Titanfall is doing well for EA. I hope it did well enough for them to warrant a sequel with a proper set of maps, weapons, and a real single-player campaign to play through. The aesthetic of the Titanfall universe is really cool, but very underdeveloped in the first game. Can't believe people bitched about MGS: Ground Zeroes yet nary a complaint was raised about Titanfall's complete lack of content.
nhlducks35
Member
Like journalists saying this game is great vs word of mouth from consumers I guess.