All we have to go on are
NPD rankings, which said Titanfall was the top selling game of March with 925,000 units sold (a number EA referenced themselves, despite their previous disdain for NPD), and educated guesses from places like
VGChartz, which has Titanfall at 2.34 million sales globally across PC, Xbox One and 360.
Is that number right? Hopefully not, as
they would be painfully low for a game with so much riding on it. But how are we supposed to know when EA refuses to share any official figures, even in an earnings call? EA is the only body that can produce accurate numbers, as all other outlets simply give us retail estimates with no accounting for digital downloads. (Also strange: EA didn’t share what percentage of its sales were digital.)
All this data, or the lack of it, seems to point to a conclusion that
Titanfall was something of a pretty big miss for EA and Respawn, despite almost universally positive reviews and word of mouth at launch. Yes, many players have been saying lately they put the game aside after a few weeks as it is a bit light on content, but I didn’t think an early drop-off time also meant the game had sold poorly.
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