Spore Sales Prediction

[Sep 03, 2008, 08:43 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Spore expected to sell 2 million in US in September quotes sales projections by Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets. Among the specific things he's seen in his crystal ball are US sales of 2 million copies of Spore in September and around 650K sign-ups this month for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

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Re: Predication?

Sep 3, 2008, 11:35

Fang

Naw, they designed online to be an integral part of the single player game. Otherwise they would be predicting 250,000 sales... (and an additional 1.75 million pirates). More seriously, anyone remember Stardock's article about why they don't include DRM and how they are still successful precisely because their target audience is not those who are more likely to pirate? Well, Crytek built a game for the audience that is more likely to pirate, so you should expect their piracy numbers to be really really high. Spore's intended audience is more like Stardock's. People claim that piracy will be the death of PC gaming. Actually, it will more likely be the downgrading of "hardcore" PC gaming, as more developers follow Stardock's example and advice. This comment was edited on Sep 3, 11:36.

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Sep 3, 09:47	Predication?	InBlack
	2.	Sep 3, 10:13	Re: Predication?	Nefilim
	3.	Sep 3, 10:17	Re: Predication?	InBlack
	4.	Sep 3, 10:21	Re: Predication?	Kajetan
	5.	Sep 3, 10:54	Re: Predication?	Blue
	6.	Sep 3, 11:01	Re: Predication?	PHJF
>>	7.	Sep 3, 11:35	Re: Predication?	Fang
	8.	Sep 3, 11:42	Re: Predication?	NKD
	9.	Sep 3, 11:51	Re: Predication?	NKD
	10.	Sep 3, 11:55	Re: Predication?	Jerykk
	11.	Sep 3, 12:07	Re: Predication?	Cutter
	14.	Sep 3, 12:33	Re: Predication?	The Half Elf
	15.	Sep 3, 12:41	No subject	Prez
	30.	Sep 3, 23:39	Re: Predication?	Cutter
	31.	Sep 4, 02:54	Re: Predication?	The Half Elf
	13.	Sep 3, 12:31	Re: Predication?	NKD
	22.	Sep 3, 15:48	Re: Predication?	Kxmode
	29.	Sep 3, 23:00	Re: Predication?	Jerykk
	12.	Sep 3, 12:22	liars....	Dreagon
	16.	Sep 3, 13:09	2 million...	Tumbler
	17.	Sep 3, 13:25	Re: 2 million...	Overon
	20.	Sep 3, 14:56	Re: 2 million...	sponge
	27.	Sep 3, 20:50	Re: 2 million...	Creston
	18.	Sep 3, 14:06	No subject	dryden555
	19.	Sep 3, 14:54	Re: No subject	Darks
	21.	Sep 3, 15:05	Re: No subject	The Half Elf
	23.	Sep 3, 16:21	No subject	Ozmodan
	24.	Sep 3, 16:40	Re: No subject	PHJF
	25.	Sep 3, 16:48	No subject	dryden555
	26.	Sep 3, 20:48	So when it doesn't reach 2 million	Creston
	28.	Sep 3, 21:15	the truth	Tumbler