Mass Effect 2 PSN Sales “Meaningful”
People... bought it?
Published: 8:45, 08/03/2011 by Dan Lee.
20I was pleasantly surprised when it was announced that Mass Effect 2 PS3 would be launching simultaneously on the PSN and at retail.
A surprise of a different nature followed shortly after when the near £50 price tag was revealed. It seems that despite this, and the initial 24GB download (reduced to 12GB post-install) the PSN version did well. EA CEO, John Riccitiello, had the following to say:
“Sony had never done a day and day release. They were very cautious about their infrastructure so it was mostly a technology test. This was really more about proving it can be done than it was proving what the opportunity would be, so an unmarketed game one year after the original was done on the Xbox and the PC, we released the PS3 and managed to do very, very well with it.”
He then added that even though EA did “absolutely nothing” to market the PS3 version, the total sales on the PSN reached a double-digit percentage of the overall sales. Did any of you take the plunge?
Source: IGN
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08/03/2011 at 08:51
Member since: Jan 2009
What?
08/03/2011 at 08:54
Member since: Aug 2010
Did people leave the brains behind when they perchased it? It was a lot cheaper (and easier on your HDD) getting the retail version
08/03/2011 at 10:33
Member since: Oct 2010
If you Game share it between 5 people it only costs £10 each.
08/03/2011 at 16:20
Member since: Jan 2010
I thought that didn’t work anymore, and piracy is piracy.
08/03/2011 at 08:55
Member since: Aug 2009
Even had it been cheaper to download, I still would have purchased the disc with HDD space becoming a serious issue these days.
08/03/2011 at 08:56
Member since: Nov 2009
Quite surprised to be honest. The £50, 20GB combo instantly put me off as I was able to get it a couple of weeks later for £17 in GAME. Hopefully, this will encourage EA to try and cater more for their digital audience, preferably by making their big releases more affordable.
08/03/2011 at 11:25
Member since: Apr 2010
£17!!?? That was a very nice price. did you use a voucher? I’ve been keeping my eye out for the magic £17.99. Funds are tight…especially with a new baby in the house.
08/03/2011 at 13:04
Member since: Jun 2010
The PSN version did not use over 20GB. For every game on PSN, you need twice as much hard disk space as the final installed size because it’s temporarily on your hard disk in two places while it’s installing. Why does TSA keep spreading the fear about this? Bad TSA.
08/03/2011 at 16:21
Member since: Jan 2010
It says it only uses 12GB on the article.
08/03/2011 at 08:58
Member since: Jun 2010
I call bullshit. Double figures? Well I guess 10 is a double figure :)
Seriously why do we get fleeced for digital content when the point of it is to make it cheaper for EVERYONE involved.
08/03/2011 at 10:49
Member since: Aug 2009
haha i thought 10%!
08/03/2011 at 17:43
Member since: Feb 2009
Nah, they’re probably not very good at counting. What’s the betting it was only 4% and they just counted it as 2% plus another 2% –
“Hey that’s double figures Bob”
“I believe your right, Sam. Knock up a press release”
08/03/2011 at 20:59
Member since: Nov 2009
ME2 on PS3 sold around 260k since release, so 50k on PSN is doable I think. Probably many people gameshared it.
08/03/2011 at 08:58
Member since: Sep 2009
‘double-digit percentage ‘ 1.1% ?
08/03/2011 at 09:27
Member since: May 2009
0.25%!
08/03/2011 at 13:44
Member since: Dec 2009
Double digit percentage is > 10%.
08/03/2011 at 09:02
Member since: Dec 2008
How about Gamesharing. I thought about buying it and then sharing it with two friends. Would only be €20 then.
08/03/2011 at 09:10
Member since: Apr 2010
Ugh, and so the way has been paved for ridiculously overpriced digital releases.
08/03/2011 at 12:38
Member since: Jul 2009
Hopefully not. The pricing is utterly ludicrous and sales reflected that. Didn’t they? Tell me they did! Who’s mental enough to fork out £50 for that when the shop price is half or less.
08/03/2011 at 09:12
Member since: Jul 2009
Why does everyone say it’s expensive? Here in Holland the 60 euro price was cheaper than most online shops. It was a great price…
08/03/2011 at 09:28
Member since: Jan 2010
From a British perspective, £40 is the normal price for a brand new game. This is about £50 and with prices of games always dropping it is now about £25. But on the store still at that very high price.
08/03/2011 at 11:18
Member since: Nov 2010
Here too it’s around 70€ in a store and 60 in PSN but i did order it from a web store so i payed around 60€ for it
08/03/2011 at 09:17
Member since: Jun 2010
…because in the UK it was £47.99 to buy it from PSN and only £39.99 to go to the shops and buy it on release date. If you then waited a week or so you would have easily picked it up new in store for less then £25.