The game hasn't even reached 100,000 preorders. How do you expect it to surpass 1 million??
a lot of people (myself included) buy physical games. Since origin doen't provide physical games - people buy it on other websites - so that does't make any point
No, it does matter. If this game can't even reach 100,000 preorders, with less than 2 weeks till launch, then that's a problem. It has flop written all over it.
The game hasn't even reached 100,000 preorders. How do you expect it to surpass 1 million??
a lot of people (myself included) buy physical games. Since origin doen't provide physical games - people buy it on other websites - so that does't make any point
No, it does matter. If this game can't even reach 100,000 preorders, with less than 2 weeks till launch, then that's a problem. It has flop written all over it.
Keep in mind preorders were open since August 20, 2013. That is 1 year with less than 100K preorders. I think there will be a boom when Origin drops the price and starts offering bundled games with a couple EPs for TS4.
lol just saying i'm going to be surprised if it surpassed 1 mil
Same here.
Sims is getting kinda old and people have moved on. Also there's probably a good chunk of people who have everything for Sims3 and rather not spend money on a new sims game and lose everything they had.
The game hasn't even reached 100,000 preorders. How do you expect it to surpass 1 million??
a lot of people (myself included) buy physical games. Since origin doen't provide physical games - people buy it on other websites - so that does't make any point
No, it does matter. If this game can't even reach 100,000 preorders, with less than 2 weeks till launch, then that's a problem. It has flop written all over it.
Keep in mind preorders were open since August 20, 2013. That is 1 year with less than 100K preorders. I think there will be a boom when Origin drops the price and starts offering bundled games with a couple EPs for TS4.
Oh dang. I didn't know that preorders were open that long...
lol just saying i'm going to be surprised if it surpassed 1 mil
Same here.
Sims is getting kinda old and people have moved on. Also there's probably a good chunk of people who have everything for Sims3 and rather not spend money on a new sims game and lose everything they had.
Is it sad that i prefer tomodachi life/animal crossing over the sims?
lol just saying i'm going to be surprised if it surpassed 1 mil
Same here.
Sims is getting kinda old and people have moved on. Also there's probably a good chunk of people who have everything for Sims3 and rather not spend money on a new sims game and lose everything they had.
Is it sad that i prefer tomodachi life/animal crossing over the sims?
Nah. People like different things. Won't bother me none.
lol just saying i'm going to be surprised if it surpassed 1 mil
Same here.
Sims is getting kinda old and people have moved on. Also there's probably a good chunk of people who have everything for Sims3 and rather not spend money on a new sims game and lose everything they had.
Is it sad that i prefer tomodachi life/animal crossing over the sims?
Nah. People like different things. Won't bother me none.
Yeah the sims i something that i want to play but with all the glitches and it just got boring after awhile
1.4 million in its first week...and apparently over 1 million of those were pre-orders. Wow. So Sims 3 sold less than 400k copies after release in a week?
Anyone wanna make a wager? I'll bet you 100 million simoleons.
Please, stop. Do you realize you've gone from just being pro-Sims 4 to literally spitting out lies now.
How can you call me making a bet lying? That doesn't even make sense.
I call the idea that you believe this game will sell more than a million copies the first week it comes out a lie. That and the notion that "most people don't pre-order games".
"Electronic Arts' third full iteration of its best-selling life simulation game sets a record for best-selling PC game launch in the company's history."
Reading comprehension goes a loooong way. Where did I talk about TS4? I was just pointing out that preorders matter, when it comes to game sales.
Well let's see...you not many people have pre-ordered Sims 4...I said most people don't pre order...then you talk about how great GTA did...then you used GTA as an example of people who say pre-orders don't count don't know what they're talking about...
It's not hard to put 2 and 2 together to see you were referring to my earlier comment regarding Sims 4 pre-orders.
Look. I get it. You want to troll in one of my threads. Please at least be a little more subtle about it.
I doubt it. TS3 only sold 1.4 million, and there's a lot of ticked off people right now. I doubt it'll hit 1 million. Whenever I look at facebook and the forums, despite the very outspoken groups that have to fight with everybody, the ones with a negative view on the game always have more support, often a lot more. From the online community it seems there's more unhappy people than there are happy people. A lot of people aren't part of the online community and will blindly buy it without knowing all we've learned online just because it's sims, but a lot will have lost interest after sims 3's buggy mess too. It's harder to judge the excitement/hatred of those not online, they might be a bit less likely or a bit more likely overall to buy it, it's impossible to say, but basically I'm figuring they'll cut sales in half and hit 700,000 or so. That's just my theory though.
Reading comprehension goes a loooong way. Where did I talk about TS4? I was just pointing out that preorders matter, when it comes to game sales.
Well let's see...you not many people have pre-ordered Sims 4...I said most people don't pre order...then you talk about how great GTA did...then you used GTA as an example of people who say pre-orders don't count don't know what they're talking about...
It's not hard to put 2 and 2 together to see you were referring to my earlier comment regarding Sims 4 pre-orders.
Look. I get it. You want to troll in one of my threads. Please at least be a little more subtle about it.
To be honest, you are the best troll I've ever seen because you always confuse people and are completely and utterly relentless. You are the only troll that has ever been able to get to me, so props for that. But anyway, it's not a difficult concept. GTA had more preorders and therefore sold way more copies than other games. The Sims 4 hasn't had many preorders. Can you put two and two together here?
I often read comments from people who are unhappy with the direction EA has taken with TS4 that the sooner the game flops the sooner they will get on with making TS5. This logic befuddles me. What's to say that the company wouldn't decide that the franchise has had its day in the sun and retire it?
I would never cheer for this game to fail. I don't want to see the end of the series.
The pre-orders on VGChartz are for US orders only. Also, for some reason, it says 5 weeks to release, not 2 weeks, so I'm not sure what that's about. Most PC games show about the same number of pre-orders at around 5 weeks but, again, VGChartz seems to have their dates listed incorrectly or perhaps their best estimates are based on data from 3 weeks ago.
TS3 sold 1.4 million copies it's first week. If someone has a link to show what the pre-order numbers are for TS3, you'll have to share it because I have yet to find it or have anyone else find it and share it.
I would be very surprised if TS4 sold over 1 million copies it's first week.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/20/entertainment-us-taketwo-gta-idUSBRE98J0O820130920
Ooooh lets see what happens xD
Keep in mind preorders were open since August 20, 2013. That is 1 year with less than 100K preorders. I think there will be a boom when Origin drops the price and starts offering bundled games with a couple EPs for TS4.
Same here.
Sims is getting kinda old and people have moved on. Also there's probably a good chunk of people who have everything for Sims3 and rather not spend money on a new sims game and lose everything they had.
Oh dang. I didn't know that preorders were open that long...
Nah. People like different things. Won't bother me none.
Google is your friend.
Oh, right! I forgot. GTA made over a billion dollars. Anyone who says preorder "don't matter", clearly don't know what they're talking about.
Why did you cut out the part where I said I tried Google and couldn't find the answer?
Almost sounds like you're just making stuff up.
You're comparing Sims 4 to GTA?
Keep them laughs coming.
1.4 million in its first week...and apparently over 1 million of those were pre-orders. Wow. So Sims 3 sold less than 400k copies after release in a week?
I call the idea that you believe this game will sell more than a million copies the first week it comes out a lie. That and the notion that "most people don't pre-order games".
Why are we comparing a console game to a PC game?
That was for first week's sales figure. And you talk about my reading comprehension.
Well let's see...you not many people have pre-ordered Sims 4...I said most people don't pre order...then you talk about how great GTA did...then you used GTA as an example of people who say pre-orders don't count don't know what they're talking about...
It's not hard to put 2 and 2 together to see you were referring to my earlier comment regarding Sims 4 pre-orders.
Look. I get it. You want to troll in one of my threads. Please at least be a little more subtle about it.
To be honest, you are the best troll I've ever seen because you always confuse people and are completely and utterly relentless. You are the only troll that has ever been able to get to me, so props for that. But anyway, it's not a difficult concept. GTA had more preorders and therefore sold way more copies than other games. The Sims 4 hasn't had many preorders. Can you put two and two together here?
I would never cheer for this game to fail. I don't want to see the end of the series.
TS3 sold 1.4 million copies it's first week. If someone has a link to show what the pre-order numbers are for TS3, you'll have to share it because I have yet to find it or have anyone else find it and share it.
I would be very surprised if TS4 sold over 1 million copies it's first week.
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