Skate Outsells Tony Hawk 2:1; Rock Band, Crysis, Orange Box "Exceeded Expectations"

Shacknews writes:
In a still-ongoing conference call hosted by Electronic Arts, key executives at the publisher spoke on the company's successes and shortcomings in its third fiscal quarter, for which it just released financial results.

Impressively, according to EA, EA Black Box's newcomer franchise Skate (PS3, X360) bested established competitor Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (PS2, PS3, X360, Wii, NDS) by a considerable margin. "Despite the fact we launched on three fewer platforms," CFO Warren Jensen pointed out, "Skate outsold Tony Hawk 2 to 1."

[timmyp53]

but the ports have got to stop. The have to anaylze the way they make PS3 games to create a better product. Come on EA X(.

[mintaro]

cant really say im surpised, skate was just in a whole other league compared to tony hawk: priving ground

[Charmers]

but but but I thought PC gamers pirated games. It would seem with Crysis going platinum ie 1 million + sales that might be a load of rubbish.

[theox2g7]

u do know that if u look up torrents for assassin's creed 360 and cod4 and all those other top sellers, they have more than a million successful downloads, 360, ps2, wii and ds pirates are so rampant and i don't even know a single friend who buys games legit anymore, either they rent to test it out and if they want to own it, they download or they just go ahead and download and burn, ur logic is flawed, a good game will sell whether it is pirated or not
u're probably one of those ignorant people who knows nothing about pc sales and thinks that US is the only place pc games sell so 86k in November to 1 million now worldwide is impossible, but just so u know command and conquer 3 did terrible in US barely breaking 100k but sold like 500k worldwide, even WoW with 10 million sales to date had only about 3 million from US, witcher barely sold 80k in US but went on to sell a million worldwide, 1 selling game in poland now (obviously because it's a polish made game),
sorry my friend but that "pc gaming is dead" cliche is getting old and whole crysis flopped thingy too, do some research next time, buddy

[kornbeaner]

Skate is the best game to come out in the genre since Tony hawk 2.

I am not surprised by the success, a very well thought up new IP from EA. Now lets see how they manage to ruin it, cause it will get ruined.
:(

[Double-Edged]

but before that....
they might perfect it....

still trying to finish the game.

[shine1396]

so I rented it and well its pretty obvious why I didn't buy it...It was broken in parts. Still, for someone who never really played skating games it was pretty cool.

[Iron Man 2]

Not surprised,all of those games mentioned are all quality titles;)

[MK_Red]

Awesome. Skate was ages ahead of Tony Hawk's PG and it was a really great but sadly underrated game. Glad to hear this.

[PS360WII]

I'm happy as well. TH needed a good kick in the pants and skate is an awesome game ^^

[theox2g7]

wow, all i can say is wow, i loved the game skate and always thought the tony hawk games were ok but overrated, as for orange box, best deal of the year, and crysis, for all those naysayers who were saying that pc gaming is dead, crysis sold 86k blaa blaa blaa, as u can see,
telling pc game sales from NPD US figures is just plain dumb, it's like telling 360 success from japan, the true hardcore pc gamers are Europe and Asia and US has always been known to be niche for pcs and mainstream for consoles, pc rocks in UK and the bread and butter of its sales are in Europe and Asia, cod4 pc outsold consoles versions in Denmark, crysis was no. 1 selling pc game in japan, crysis was also no.1 selling game across all platforms in Germany for some time, NPD doesn't count any of that, crysis had the highest number of online pre-orders for a pc game ever as it came with extra goodies like multiplayer weapons, vehicles, maps and exclusive content, i bet the 1 million sales included online downloads from the ea store and some other stores like direct2drive, Europe sales and Asia sales,
nuff said