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Bulletstorm sales figures to exceed 4.5 million

EA’s newest I.P., Bulletstorm, presents an interesting case of a brand-new franchise emerging from a very established developer, making HULIQ’s retail sales projection somewhat challenging to accurately establish.

TheBossMan4827d ago

I'll believe it when it happens.

SasanovaS19874827d ago

i call 2 million lifetime sales, right.....now

ok go

Pixelated_Army4827d ago

500,000 max, no way this is getting anywhere near to the mill mark.

zootang4827d ago (Edited 4827d ago )

Well it struggled on it's first week in the UK with Killzone 3 topping the charts and people say that the 360 is more popular in the UK. So I don't know what that means?
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/4...

@Below
Those are combined figures

gamingdroid4827d ago (Edited 4827d ago )

"Well it struggled on it's first week in the UK with Killzone 3 topping the charts"

Yeah, it struggled at position number 2!!! /s

Army_of_Darkness4827d ago (Edited 4827d ago )

Bulletstorm is a pretty good and fun game too! Im gonna pick this up to:-) D

trounbyfire4827d ago

1.3 million which to me any game over 1 million is a success.
i think you are right, as much as people want to think its the second coming of shooters its not it a very neigh game.

plus and don't hate me but that damn engine should be retired and developers that can make it look different stopped using it.

EVILDEAD3604827d ago

'plus and don't hate me but that damn engine should be retired and developers that can make it look different stopped using it.'

Batman: Arkham Asylam, Borderlands, and and Gears 3 say GTFOH..

That engine has been the source for some of the greatest games this gen..

If all developers had the resouces to build engines they would..The only reason the hate started was because the success of Gears.

On topic..Bulletstorm is getting alot of love..but 4.5 definately seems pretty high at the moment..word of mouth would have to be pretty good..but the fact that EVERYONE on LIVE can get into the beta changes the incentive for the late game purchase push

I pick up mine tommorow..

Evil

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gamingdroid4827d ago

I will be believe it when I see it from a reputable source. Who the heck is Huliq?

Surfaced4827d ago

If you actually dig deep in that source, the 4.5m figure came from "Sales through the end of the year". Still unlikely but infinitely more feasible.

Of course 4.5m in one week is absurd. Few games have that kind of pull, and certainly no fresh IP ever has.

FragGen4827d ago

+1. This title has rental written all over it.

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BrianC62344827d ago

Of course this game is selling better on the 360. Most PS3 gamers want Killzone 3. It was strange to release this game the same day Killzone 3 came out.

Thoreau4827d ago

sheeple will buy this mess...

palaeomerus4827d ago

The "sheeple" are the ones flocking to Bulletstorm threads to complain about it without ever playing it.

Thoreau4827d ago

i am not complaining but if you are dummy enough to spend 60 bones on bulletstorm then you are a sheeple.

Thoreau4827d ago

go ahead and disagree me. bulletstorm sucks, i know it is just my view but d@mn......

if you only own a 360 then go play bulletstorm, you know the game without competitive multiplayer, or lobbies, so you can only play people on your buddy list until they patch it. lame horde mode, yeah it is lame.

i am not stating this because, oh that guy thoreau is a sony fan

psn-southpaw79 (if any of you hating on kz3 that actually have a ps3)

xbl-heavens boxer (i have not been on since halo:reach, but i will return for gears of war3)

bottom line is this game is trash, and i would love to see how many people will be on this game in 3 months......

MadMax4826d ago

No one in here gives a shit about your lame opinion. I mean seriously, you are nobody lol. You have no business playing games nor commenting on something you know absolutely nothing about. Take a hike troll!

Raven_Nomad4827d ago

I called those numbers way back before the games release. I figured 3-4 million XBox 360 owners would buy the game, then maybe another 1 million between P.C. and PS3.

BulletStorm has a very Gears feeling to it, but it's something totally fresh and new. I love it, took me almost 11 hours to beat it the first time, now I amped up the difficulty and I'm going to beat it again.

Since Killzone 2 only sold slightly over 2 million and Killzone 3 is doing worse in sales than that game,the math isn't hard to figure out.

Always happy to see and support a new IP rather then sequel of a sequel.

PshycoNinja4827d ago

But... Killzone 3 is selling better than Bulletstorm according to the UK and US charts. So either Killzone 3 sold over 4.5 million or this is just EA and Epic doing damage control and a lot spining.

Raven_Nomad4827d ago

Show me where Killzone 3 is doing better then BulletStorm in the US?

I saw the article that said it edged it in the UK, but that also said it's well behind where Killzone 2 was. Also, where I live, plenty of KZ3, sold out of BulletStorm at Walmart and Gamestop. 300+ people at the BulletStorm midnight release as well.

Don't underestimate the Gears fans buying this game. Also, this article is saying "They expect it to sell that much" not that it has.

Multiplat games will usually sell better then exclusives, unless it's like Halo or Mario or something.

nightmarex1214827d ago

Well kz3 probably sold around 3 million as well if you look at the leader boards.

-Alpha4827d ago (Edited 4827d ago )

The leaderboards indicate no more than 365,152 recorded players to have logged on to the multiplayer servers.

190K from America, Around 100K for Europe, and then the rest of the world is broken up for the remainder.

It sure as hell isn't 3 million from the leaderboards, unless I'm looking at the wrong leaderboards

nightmarex1214827d ago

Yeah thats right but those are pages its not one person per one page their 10 so multiply it by 10.

-Alpha4827d ago (Edited 4827d ago )

That's not true. The page shows "15 players" out of "365,152 players" per page

This means that there are 365K players and they show 15 per page out of that 365K players

So, if you go to the top of the leaderboard, it says "1 / 15 of 366205"

nightmarex1214827d ago (Edited 4827d ago )

Oh yeah i see it now my b, well it was 1/10 before but i guess they changed it. Shit i thought kz3 going to at least sell 1 million. Whats are the bullet storm leaderboards like?

likedamaster4827d ago

Without alpha-male22, n4g would be a complete and utter cesspool. Bubbles Alpha'.

(no offense nightmarex121)

Agent_S4827d ago

Damn... that 3 bubble got checked by that 8 bubble.

Raven_Nomad4826d ago

Those are really low numbers for a new game that is supposed to be a killer app for the PS3. In comparison, right now on COD Black Ops, there are 3.1 million online users right now.

Close to 1 million on Reach as well, guess we'll have to wait for Killzone 4 to be the COD/Halo Killer huh? Especially when it cant even take care of new ips like BulletStorm.

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cochise3134826d ago

where was this mid night release sir?

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There are no "thoughtful" ads in video games, EA

There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.

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northpaws4h ago

I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.

But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.

Hofstaderman2h ago

EA can thoughtfully eff themselves.

Makersbreath22h ago

EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.

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Report: Sexual Misconduct Investigation Conducted at EA, Suspects Named and What They Did Revealed

EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.

isarai5d ago

Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.

Cacabunga5d ago

I wonder if it will be censored with some in game ads.

MrBaskerville3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.

Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.

InUrFoxHole2d ago

Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.

XiNatsuDragnel5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.

MrBaskerville3d ago

Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.

Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.

ravens525d ago

What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.

Extermin8or3_5d ago

I mean part of the issue is that things transpired outside of work....

MrBaskerville3d ago

That's the thing he mentioned about not being a creep at all.

KwietStorm_BLM5d ago

You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.

mudakoshaka4d ago

Nerds think they are Gods when they are making video games.

NotoriousWhiz5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."

Yep, EA is disgusting.

Extermin8or3_5d ago

I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.

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EA to Spend Billions Boosting Share Prices After Mass Layoffs

EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.

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Yi-Long8d ago

Well, anything to make those shareholders happy, I guess. They're all that matters in this industry nowadays.

badboyz098d ago (Edited 8d ago )

EA stocks haven't been profitable in over 5yrs. They better hope Take-two don't get the FIFA license lol.