LiquidSolid
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Nice to see the EA Partners legacy continued, EA always did a great job of throwing those games under the bus.
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UK:TF's first week sales on XB1 is more than the double amount TF2 sold on PS4&XB1
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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I do not live in UK. Odd that game stores are open during Sunday. In my country, well, aren't.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Also, the title hurts my brain a bit. Should have said:
"UK: Titanfall 2 first weekend sales total much less than half of TF1's Xbone week 1 sales"
Okay? You questioned Sunday, and someone clarified that stores are open here on Sundays. I would wager it's the second busiest retail day after Saturday.
"UK: Titanfall 2 first weekend sales total much less than half of TF1's Xbone week 1 sales"
Okay? You questioned Sunday, and someone clarified that stores are open here on Sundays. I would wager it's the second busiest retail day after Saturday.
Jarod McChicken
Member
Blake Jorgensen in May.
Bruno MB
Member
I think EA wanted to strangle COD. Battlefield 1 gets a massive crowd and some COD players, Titanfall picks off the COD crowd. Double hit. I don't think they saw Modern Warfare coming though.
Jesus christ.
So <31250? Unless that's counting the 360 sales too, but I assume not as it launched later?
Yautja_Warrior
Member
EA really didn't do Respawn and Titanfall 2 any favours with this release date, WTF were they thinking ?
You just don't release a shooter right after Battlefield and just before COD, its just sales suicide.
Hopefully sales pick up with the good reviews and word of mouth or the digital sales are better, because it certainly deserves to do better.
You just don't release a shooter right after Battlefield and just before COD, its just sales suicide.
Hopefully sales pick up with the good reviews and word of mouth or the digital sales are better, because it certainly deserves to do better.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Watch Dogs 2 will not fail. So many people seem to be thinking that, but I think there is no chance of this happening. The first game sold >10 million copies, and I would wager that WD2 will sell at least as much.
Wow...
Oh, fuck.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Not even a quarter, oh my...
Welp.
GinoFelino
Member
At least as much? Man, you'll lose that wager and then some.
I do think it'll sell just fine. Many people will want to see how it looks on PS4 Pro, too.
Ragnar Blackmane
Member
They could have delayed the game at any time and pushed it back to december or even next year, silently finishing the gold version and working on slow-burn fixing and QA till the eventual release.
It's not like the AW Remaster has been announced last month and successful games have been delayed with hardly a months notice (e.g. XCOM 2).
EA and its suits only has to blame themselves for this. Rise of the Tomb Raider a year ago should have been one hell of a wake up call for videogame company suits (and it's not like we haven't had similar cases since then... or the Witcher 3 that showed it could sell 9 Millions in the middle of SUMMER, releasing all by itself and with decent marketing).
I am really, REALLY praying for this, because I really want to play the game but I'm a college student and my 2 month video game budget already went into BF1. But if EA drops the support as fast as I fear they will (unlike REALLY supporting the game, like Ubi did with R6: Siege), including NOT starting to advertize the heck out of it after the initial CoD hype is over, the game will die, even if it does so slower than TF1.
Bojanglez
The Amiga Brotherhood
Yeah I think this will be the case. Personally I'm really liking BF1, but its online is ropey both in terms of framerate and connection. I had a great time on FT1 and having seen the positive feedback on TF2, I'll almost definitely be picking that up as well.
It's a wider fuck up by EA though, launching TF1 on XB1 exclusive for console left a bad taste in some people's mouths and others simply will have never heard of it and therefore figured that it may be hard to jump into a sequel.
welp less than 25% of the first game
I don't even know if this is funny or sad.
Bruno MB
Member
In theory the Xbox 360 week one sales shouldn't be included, but even if they were Titanfall 2 would be below 40,000 units.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I mean, I'm happy to make an avatar bet, but unless Ubisoft release sales numbers we have no way of proving otherwise.
I genuinely think you guys expecting Watch Dogs 2 to flub are delusional though. Once Ubisoft's marketing is firing on all gears they are the best in the business, and the open world genre is probably bigger than it has ever been so this will do very well with the crowd who have burnt out on GTAV. Not to mention that the early previews suggest it is a steep improvement over the first game, and a lot of fun in its own right.
A.D. Skinner
Member
You've taken what you had, changed it to be something else and not done it very well. The new audience you're after have their games already, or are getting them soon, and aren't interested in your new version because most people who liked the original, aren't interested. Word spread, you tried to fix it but the faults are ingrained in design, not something a tweak can fix.
Instead of different, you're now an average clone. Welp.
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Why is everyone blaming EA? This is all Respawn! Wasn't that one interview of the guy talking about how "you should earn Titans" "they shouldn't be around so much" "the pilot v pilot combat is the best thing in Titanfall" with the games main designer, a Respawn guy?
Instead of different, you're now an average clone. Welp.
EDIT
Why is everyone blaming EA? This is all Respawn! Wasn't that one interview of the guy talking about how "you should earn Titans" "they shouldn't be around so much" "the pilot v pilot combat is the best thing in Titanfall" with the games main designer, a Respawn guy?
Yeah I doubt they are included.
It's absolutely insane that a delayed 360 version of Titanfall 1 sold practically the exact same as Titanfall 2 on XB1 and PS4.. Holy shit. Hell, it might have even sold more..
Memorabilia
Member
It's a shame because from most accounts TF2 turned out great, or at least "fun" if you're oblivious or accepting of its changes from TF1. I didn't like the beta at all and canceled my CE preorder, but still fully intended to pick up a standard copy when it dropped to $40 ($32 GCU). But with this news it looks like the MP could end up with shorter legs than the prequel, so I'll probably be waiting for $20 or less at this point since I'll be buying it mainly for the SP campaign after the MP mostly dies off.
On a side-note, EA is such a cluster-fuck at times I'm amazed they can stay in business. Annual cash cows like Madden apparently more than make up for idiocy like this, but I wonder what they could do if they actually had competent management, treated their devs like human beings, and treated their customer with a modicum of respect instead of derision...
On a side-note, EA is such a cluster-fuck at times I'm amazed they can stay in business. Annual cash cows like Madden apparently more than make up for idiocy like this, but I wonder what they could do if they actually had competent management, treated their devs like human beings, and treated their customer with a modicum of respect instead of derision...
who was not aware of TF2 having a campaign? i'm pretty sure this has been covered since the dawn of time.
And hopefully people will realize how good of a game it actually is, and more people will buy it, because honestly this game is GOTY material imo.
Most people don't know there is a campaign. Hell, most people barely realize it exists as EA are flooding the market with BF1 adverts while not lifting a finger on Titanfall 2.
It doesn't matter if it's covered at trade shows if the average consumer isn't informed.
dealer-
Member
No way it will be as quick out the gate as Watch Dogs, I think it sold 4 million in a week worldwide and was the biggest new IP ever in the UK.
I think both WD2 and Dishonored 2 sales will be down compared to the first entries.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Woof. That's rough as hell.
MS spent a lot of time and resources marketing the original. EA have barely done anything.
Black Mantis
Member
Bad release date for most. Personally I'm holding off buying any new games because of an upcoming move to Spain, but as I've heard good things about the SP campaign, i'll definitely pick it up at some point.
Little Old Man
Member
In the UK it's definitely the second biggest retail day of the week.
Source: BBC documentary on retail over the years. Yes I'm a sad little Old man.
A.D. Skinner
Member
So much of that was free marketing from people playing at events, Beta, and everyone loved it. This game has had the opposite. Every bit the same amount of free marketing, but negative.
Logsi
Member
Seen a few ads here in the UK. Usually late at night. Adverts looked good!
Triggerhappytel
Member
I guess that launch window, "Have you seen Titanfall" hype really helped the first game. Marketing for the sequel has been pretty flat by comparison.
Thanks dude. Not surprised by that.
Because some people treated it as if it was an Xbox One exclusive.
"Have you seen Titanfall?", "Drop a Titan on it" etc.