Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched on October 31, and we have already received a tiny window into how properly it is promoting. It debuted at No.6 on Circana’s report of the highest promoting video games within the US for the total month, simply after Metaphor: ReFantazio. However its placement on a single chart does not fairly inform the total story.
We reached out to analyst Mat Piscatella at Circana following the report to get a bit of extra information on simply how properly Veilguard was doing, and he supplied some context. Although it’d appear like Dragon Age is being soundly overwhelmed by quite a lot of different debut titles for the month of October, he notes that Dragon Age launched on October 31, and the chart tracks by means of November 2. So Dragon Age solely had three days of gross sales mirrored within the chart, whereas most different video games on it had considerably extra.
Moreover, Piscatella identified that EA doesn’t present Steam information for the best-selling titles charts, so whereas different video games (together with Metaphor) had Steam digital gross sales mirrored, Dragon Age’s numbers are just for PlayStation and Xbox.
“Had been Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s PC quantity included it could have positioned larger on the best-selling titles chart — maybe as excessive as third general,” he says. “Sadly, nonetheless, digital gross sales are included in these particular charts solely on the discretion of the writer.”
For more information, we requested Piscatella if there was any method to evaluate The Veilguard’s launch gross sales to its Dragon Age predecessors, however Circana’s weekly information solely goes again to 2018, so no cube there. Nevertheless, Piscatella did have some evaluation to add about how issues have been going:
“Simply trying on the first days of gross sales and preliminary engagement ranges through Circana’s Participant Engagement Tracker, it has been a great – however not nice – launch,” he mentioned. “Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn’t attain the launch week gross sales ranges of both Closing Fantasy VII: Rebirth or Dragon’s Dogma II, and will probably be a little bit of an uphill battle to attain Inquisition’s lifetime gross sales. However once more, it’s totally early and a variety of the story is left to be informed. November will give us a significantly better learn.”
Although we do not have gross sales numbers for Closing Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Sq. Enix has mentioned they didn’t meet their inner expectations. In the meantime, Capcom reported that Dragon’s Dogma 2 was successful for them, having handed 2.5 million copies bought as of this previous April. We do have a bit extra comparability context by means of gross sales numbers within the UK, courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz. Dragon Age: The Veilguard debuted at No.7 on UK gross sales charts, however its first week gross sales have been over 18% decrease than these of Dragon’s Dogma 2 and practically 21% under these of Closing Fantasy 7: Rebirth.