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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
| Troika Sales Figures @ Game Daily |
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An interesting <a href="http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=9052" target="_blank">article</a> at Game Daily farewells Troika but delves a little deeper than most by citing NPD sales figures:<blockquote><em>Boyarsky, Cain and Anderson formed Troika in 1998 after leaving Interplay where they created the classic RPG Fallout. Troika only created three games in the past six years: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001), The Temple of Elemental Evil (2003) and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004). These games catered to the niche RPG market, and although most were well received critically, the titles simply failed to generate enough revenue for the studio to survive. Arcanum was the company's best selling game, and it only managed to sell 234K units and generate sales of $8.8 million, according to the NPD Group. It was downhill from there; The Temple of Elemental Evil sold 128K units ($5.2 million) and Bloodlines sold a paltry 72K units ($3.4 million). It didn't help either that Bloodlines, which was published by Activision and powered by the Source/Half-Life 2 engine, was released at the same time as Valve's blockbuster first-person shooter sequel.</em></blockquote> |
Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:24 pm |
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Those figures are incorrect Dhruin:
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This is incorrect. By a signficant factor. I was there when the royalty checks came in, and Arcanum did much better than that. I do not think the publisher would have written checks for copies that they hadn't sold.
I never heard a final number on ToEE, as I wasn't directly involved in it, but the number I recall for its first-month sales was more than this article claims it did overall.
I do not know any numbers on Vampire, but I do know what I think of this source's accuracy.
This is from a former employee of Troika, as you know.
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=187491#187491
All the best
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Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:25 pm |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
I wouldn´t call them 'incorrect', instead I would say they´re 'incomplete' and thus misleading. I´m pretty sure the NPD stats deliver these numbers.
The problem is elsewhere. NPD covers
-only big retailers
-only in North America (~ 40% of the world market)
-at least Wallmart (~25% of the US market) is extrapolated from a few shops
-how other numbers are collected is unclear.
Missing are:
-the rest of the world (-> ~60% of the world market)
-small retailers
-internet sales through Amazon and thousands of other shops.
How reliable NPD´s sales numbers are should be clear by now.
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