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alanmichael1
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Hi everyone,
I've done a little research on Amazon to see how TS4 is doing and everything seems to be quite good. It's the #1 pc game in USA, Canada (in both American countries even a more expensive edition is leading), in Germany, UK, France and Japan. Even if you take the whole category "games" including playstation titles and technical equipment, TS4 is in the top 5 everywhere with one exception: In the US it's only #39.
I'm quite relieved that the base game has a good start, even if it may have a lot of weaknesses. I want many EPs and I want the series to survive!
I've done a little research on Amazon to see how TS4 is doing and everything seems to be quite good. It's the #1 pc game in USA, Canada (in both American countries even a more expensive edition is leading), in Germany, UK, France and Japan. Even if you take the whole category "games" including playstation titles and technical equipment, TS4 is in the top 5 everywhere with one exception: In the US it's only #39.
I'm quite relieved that the base game has a good start, even if it may have a lot of weaknesses. I want many EPs and I want the series to survive!
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It's the computer age. US customers know just about the same as the rest of the world.
As Todd Howard on beth forums once said, the people coming and posting on forums are usually more of hardcore gamers/fans and you can NEVER judge your fan base from them.
Sadly 99% of the simmers probably don't know what's missing from the game and they won't until actually they get and play the game themselves.
http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders/
This is very true!
I do think it would be nice if EA had competition. It would definitely make them step up their game and make a great product and not cut any corners just to save time and money. After all, you have to spend money to make money. It's kind of like local utility companies. They have the monopoly in our area and think they can charge what they want and treat customers however they want because it's either deal with them or do without water and electricity. Well, we simmers have to either deal with EA and their shenanigans or do without sims. I know I could live without sims, but I have been a fan of the franchise too long and want to see it thrive.
I don't know specifics, but someone mentioned that the VgChartz number doesn't include digital pre-orders.
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Not even outside the US every time a new user joins the forums they always get surprised at what is missing in the game and even in the comments on youtube people are trying to say that others are lying about toddlers not being in the game and such. Who knows what EA hasn't told people outside of the US.
I'm not from the US, and I'm perfectly aware of the missing features. And the Internet exists outside the USA too, so we have access to all sorts of information across the pond too. Anyway, just because people are buying the game that doesn't necessarily mean they don't know about the cuts...maybe they know but it's not a deal-breaker for them.
LOL First let me say these list's are never accurate. They're number 1 for the week in preorder sales, but sims 4 isn't even out yet. That doesn't mean that it has a strong start at all. I've seen this happen all the time with the sims series on charts. You'll see the game hold the top slots until another big title comes out and then it makes it into the bottom sales.
What that means is say amazon only had 100 games sale that week. Sims had 65, Assassin Creed 20, Railroad tycoon 15. Then of course even with those minor sales sims is going to be in the top slot all over. What telling of the game isn't it's release it's over all sails speaks in volumes what's happening and if the game is doing well.
An example of that is sims 1 had 13 million in sales
sims 2 16 millions
sims 3 10 million
Wow that's a pretty big drop 6 million almost a little over 1/3 of sales dropped off there.
Well when we do research we know why, bugs and too many problems.
Sims 4 we don't have data on and won't have for a while. So we'll have to wait to see if it actually will be a strong start and continue remain strong.
Didn't know that. I guess it can be used as a proxy anyway?
Because they are just loud. They are in fact a minority.
If EA is successfully selling an unfinished, stripped product by stealth, they can expect to reap the whirlwind just days after release when disappointed consumers make their feelings known. Remember the 'SimCity' backlash?
EA have cut so many features from TS4 that I really hope it is at least finished now! After Island Paradise it can't get worse ... (can it?)