"We won’t have The Sims obviously that we had this year but we’ll have a looong stretch of Sims expansion packs during the year to continue to keep that Sims product exciting. While the update itself is small, it addresses a big issue that has been having an impact on a number of console players. He also had this to say regarding The Sims: A new update for The Sims 4 has been released for both PlayStation and Xbox players. Only about 15% of our games are delivered as a full game digitally." –Blake Jorgensen, CFO But still a fairly large portion of the full games, the upfront gameplay, is delivered through retail channels. “50% of our business is digitally delivered. Transcript from the Stifel Technology, Internet & Media Conference on February 9, 2015 To date, all we’ve heard comes second hand from Carl who alleges EA told affiliates The Sims 4 sales were “strong”. “EA has described Sims 4 sales as strong through their affiliate program that I participate in.” – Carl Lackluster reviews, the unfinished state of the game when released (four patches to date) and EA’s move towards marketing games through social media instead of traditional ad campaigns certainly hasn’t helped.ĮA doesn’t release sales figures for individual games (outside of special press announcements celebrating successful releases) but the quarterly report is scheduled for Tuesday, Octowhere investors will expect some sort of statement. This downward trend in sales was predicted early on given the “negative perception” of The Sims 3. Most major retailers – including EA’s Origin – have already discounted The Sims 4.The planned Day 1 DLC and premium subscription plan have been put on hold and free content is being patched in instead.EA has not made the expected press announcement touting the sales figures for The Sims 4 like with previous games.The Sims 4 debuted at number 1 on the UK sales charts when released but quickly fell off the charts and is no longer ranked.So we don’t know what the total sales are for The Sims 4 (only EA knows that and they’re not saying) but the signs indicate they’re nothing to write home about: retailers and does not include digital sales. It’s important to keep in mind that the NPD report only includes new physical games sold at U.S. That’s a perfectly respectable number but no where near The Sims 3 which dominated the NPD sales charts at the time of its release. So The Sims 4 sold between 190k and 700k physical copies of the game in the U.S. 4 game, Super Smash Bros, sold 705k units and that Hyrule Warriors sold 190K games which would have been enough to make the top 10. The September 2014 NPD software sales chart is out and The Sims 4 is selling well at No.
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