Well. I go away for an evening and some nub shows up and discussing my "lack of citations", so here we go:
Take2 hasn't released sales figures for Civ5. Being in sales and marketing, I find that amusing because when sales are good, you trumpet them from the heavens. So let's look at the information we DO have:
Take2's quarterly earnings for Q3 2010 - Take2 cites Red Dead Redemption as the driving force behind their profitability. They have not released Q4 numbers yet, obviously. We won't have firm results on what Civ5 has actually sold for some time.
According to a 2008 listing by Take2 when EA was attempting to acquire them, Civ4 had sold, as of 2+ years ago, 3 million units. I chose ONLY to list factually cited sales figures for you here, although Civ4.com lists the game as having sold over _6_ million units.
Do a search in Take2's Q3 report and you'll find that the "Civilization Series" sales figures are not listed at ALL, Civilization is listed only as "one of many intellectual properties" they own, and they include CivRev and "Civilization Network" as potential for the series. Civ5 is not mentioned by name once in the entire report.
I'm not a computer programmer, so I have no idea how to fix Civ5's code problems. I *am*, however, a sales and marketing guy. And I can tell you if Civ5 wasn't a black eye for Take2 they'd be shouting from the rooftops.
As a matter of fact, for November Take2's one success was NBA2k11. You'd think Take2 would be trumpeting Civ5 if it had moved a million units. I'm inclined, after researching and reviewing my numbers, to admit I was mistaken in sales figures.
I can't prove that Civ5 has moved 1 million units.
Take2 hasn't released sales figures for Civ5. Being in sales and marketing, I find that amusing because when sales are good, you trumpet them from the heavens. So let's look at the information we DO have:
Take2's quarterly earnings for Q3 2010 - Take2 cites Red Dead Redemption as the driving force behind their profitability. They have not released Q4 numbers yet, obviously. We won't have firm results on what Civ5 has actually sold for some time.
According to a 2008 listing by Take2 when EA was attempting to acquire them, Civ4 had sold, as of 2+ years ago, 3 million units. I chose ONLY to list factually cited sales figures for you here, although Civ4.com lists the game as having sold over _6_ million units.
Do a search in Take2's Q3 report and you'll find that the "Civilization Series" sales figures are not listed at ALL, Civilization is listed only as "one of many intellectual properties" they own, and they include CivRev and "Civilization Network" as potential for the series. Civ5 is not mentioned by name once in the entire report.
I'm not a computer programmer, so I have no idea how to fix Civ5's code problems. I *am*, however, a sales and marketing guy. And I can tell you if Civ5 wasn't a black eye for Take2 they'd be shouting from the rooftops.
As a matter of fact, for November Take2's one success was NBA2k11. You'd think Take2 would be trumpeting Civ5 if it had moved a million units. I'm inclined, after researching and reviewing my numbers, to admit I was mistaken in sales figures.
I can't prove that Civ5 has moved 1 million units.