Breaking: Destiny to sell lots (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Friday, June 27, 2014, 20:02 (3800 days ago)

For those intereted in the business end,

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/27/preorder-analysis-suggests-destiny-could-be-the-biggest-game-of-the-year-with-10-15...

The fun part:

The analysis is based on Cowen’s Ordometer, which tracks U.S. video game orders before launch and then correlates the result to sales after launch. The analysis is backed by six years of Amazon bestseller data and NPD’s reported physical sales of games. Cowen measures the data every week from the Electronic Entertainment Expo to the end of the year for both Xbox and PlayStation consoles. The results paint an estimate of preorders and are a bit surprising given our own lackluster impressions of Destiny’s recent alpha test.

Creutz said in his report that Destiny has the highest Ordometer score of any game tracked over the past four years, and it could even outsell Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, which Activision plans to launch in November. Call of Duty is tracking in-line with Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which had a slow preorder start in 2012 but went on to be the highest-selling game in the series’ history. So the “overall trajectory of Advanced Warfare remains up for debate,” Creutz wrote. The fate of Advanced Warfare will be determined in the next few weeks of preorders.

And that's before the beta hits. Given the way the Alpha has changed opinions for the better it has the potential to go higher.

Though apparently Dean Takahashi didn't like the Alpha?