Delayed reviews and the impact on sales (Destiny)

by Fuertisimo, Saturday, September 13, 2014, 13:31 (3523 days ago)

Well then, I think we can surmise for ourselves why the reviews were really delayed in this case.

I'm left to wonder, now with even the big boys of the review world weighing in with shockingly low review scores, how many units were sold based on lack of available reviews? If these reviews were available 3-4 days in advance of the game being released, how many fewer games would have been sold? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? It was going to sell a lot based on how marketed and high profile it was anyhow. If I had the ability to see alternate realities, I would use it to answer questions like these. And for really noble stuff too of course.

Reminds me of Diablo 3. Reviews weren't available at launch for that either, and it sold something like 10 million copies in the first few days, but the fan backlash was severe and the expansion sold at a fraction of the pace of the original (to their credit, Blizzard seems to have righted the ship on that one, but I know I felt burned originally).