Also note the game has been discounted to $40 in this week's Best Buy ad. That's a pretty quick 1/3 discount just 2 months after release of a AAA title.
The 1.6 million was reported by Microsoft in january 2008. The game is likely to have sold some more units after that date,it also went platinum in 2009.
I would guess sales are greater than 2 million.
Whether ME2 can sell much more than that is inconclusive based on current sales.
Is this game really expected to sell this many copies? That's getting close to double the first Mass Effect. What is see is around 1.6mil sold to date.
According to DFC Intelligence, BioWare's latest spacefaring adventure sold an estimated 1.1 million copies (of the Xbox 360 version) in January -- six times the sales of any other game.
@Jonman, This is actually incorrect if you look at the press release it states SOLD in over 2 million units not SHIPPED over 2 million units. "BioWare(TM), a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), announced today that Mass Effect(TM) 2 has sold-in over two million units worldwide in its first week of release"
After a strong critical reception and intense advertising campaign, Mass Effect 2 had an excellent opening day in the Americas. According to VGChartz preliminary estimates, around 500,000 copies of the game were sold on day one on Xbox 360 (PC sales were not tracked). Extrapolating for the week, total sales should surpass 700,000 in the Americas by Saturday.
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