Hype aside, which game will sell more - Witcher 2 or Dragon Age 2?

I'm willing to forego any and all hype - I've pre-ordered both.:P:lol:

But I am interested in how PC gamers here view this. Which game do you think will sell the most?

Discuss.

TW2 will probably sell better on PC, but DA2 will sell better overall

DA 2 bigger fanbase. also TW 2 is on all platforms DA 2 still has a bigger fanbasenoxboxlive

I'll be surprised if TW2 is not PC-only on the release date. I don't think it will be on another platform right away. I could be wrong, but...

in the US, DA2 for sure

in Europe...problably DA2 :P But The Witcher 2 might sell more, you never know :D

Both are going to be awesome imo

Ive preordered both aswell but I'm pretty sure DA2 will sell more.

Both are going to be awesome imo

mrbojangles25

I agree. Can't wait to start these games.:D

Dragon Age2 will sell more i am 90% sure.

Its on 3 systems (PC, xbox and ps3).

If I had to guess though, I would say The Witcher2 will be the better game, but looking forward to them both alot!
Got em both preordered!

Waiting patiently to see if Dragon Age 2 can be as enjoyable to me as Origins was ;)

Dragon Age2 will sell more i am 90% sure.

Its on 3 systems (PC, xbox and ps3).

If I had to guess though, I would say The Witcher2 will be the better game, but looking forward to them both alot!
Got em both preordered!

Waiting patiently to see if Dragon Age 2 can be as enjoyable to me as Origins was ;)

kozzy1234

A lot of people will buy Witcher 2 on GoG, and we won't know the numbers. I pre-ordered it on Impulse myself.

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Dragon Age2 will sell more i am 90% sure.

Its on 3 systems (PC, xbox and ps3).

If I had to guess though, I would say The Witcher2 will be the better game, but looking forward to them both alot!
Got em both preordered!

Waiting patiently to see if Dragon Age 2 can be as enjoyable to me as Origins was ;)

topsemag55

A lot of people will buy Witcher 2 on GoG, and we won't know the numbers. I pre-ordered it on Impulse myself.

Yup, not just gog.com but all over the place. Steam, D2D, Impulse, GOG.com,etc..

Nice to see another person supporting Impulse, I love that service.

Thats one thing I always laugh at on this site in system wars is when people say "OMG CONSOLE VERSION SOLD TWICE AS MUCH AS PC VERSION! OMG!". Yeah.. well thats because those numbers that get released for pc are not including the Digital Download sales.

But then when the overall Digital Download sale numbers come out people are like OMG OMG OMG :lol:

Last I saw it was 60% of pc games bought was on Digital Download sites? That number is probably even higher now.

Dragon Age2 will sell more i am 90% sure.

Its on 3 systems (PC, xbox and ps3).

If I had to guess though, I would say The Witcher2 will be the better game, but looking forward to them both alot!
Got em both preordered!

Waiting patiently to see if Dragon Age 2 can be as enjoyable to me as Origins was ;)

kozzy1234

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Dragon Age2 will sell more i am 90% sure.

Its on 3 systems (PC, xbox and ps3).

If I had to guess though, I would say The Witcher2 will be the better game, but looking forward to them both alot!
Got em both preordered!

Waiting patiently to see if Dragon Age 2 can be as enjoyable to me as Origins was ;)

Prexxus

Actually no its not...

They want to do a console game but there is nothing in development for consoles as far as The Witcher goes.

There was a version beign worked on but they stopped working on it.

You might see a WITCHER game on consoles in a year or two, but consoles ARE NOT getting The Witcher 2 in a few months like PC is.

Want some facts? Well there is no way to preorder the console version of Witcher (you can preorder for PC The Witcher2) right now and they said they are concentrating on The Witcher2 on PC, although they would LIKE to make a game for consoles and that The Witcher series COULD work on consoles. There is no set date for The Witcher or The Witcher2 on consoles though bud sorry.

Yup, not just gog.com but all over the place. Steam, D2D, Impulse, GOG.com,etc..

Nice to see another person supporting Impulse, I love that service.

Thats one thing I always laugh at on this site in system wars is when people say "OMG CONSOLE VERSION SOLD TWICE AS MUCH AS PC VERSION! OMG!". Yeah.. well thats because those numbers that get released for pc are not including the Digital Download sales.

But then when the overall Digital Download sale numbers come out people are like OMG OMG OMG :lol:

Last I saw it was 60% of pc games bought was on Digital Download sites? That number is probably even higher now.

kozzy1234

Yup, I like Impulse the same as yourself.

I purchased the original Witcher on it, and what I liked about Impulse was I got roughly 5 or 6 more updates after the EE was released.:D

I agree 100% on what you said about DD sales.:lol:

Well I pre-ordered DA2 even tho I hated the demo, it's I just can't say no to Bioware. :P

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[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

Dragon Age2 will sell more i am 90% sure.

Its on 3 systems (PC, xbox and ps3).

If I had to guess though, I would say The Witcher2 will be the better game, but looking forward to them both alot!
Got em both preordered!

Waiting patiently to see if Dragon Age 2 can be as enjoyable to me as Origins was ;)

kozzy1234

Actually no its not...

They want to do a console game but there is nothing in development for consoles as far as The Witcher goes.

There was a version beign worked on but they stopped working on it.

Well I pre-ordered DA2 even tho I hated the demo, it's I just can't say no to Bioware. :P

Raxzor

I'm not going to dump BioWare over a demo, when most options are locked and you don't have all of the textures files.

BioWare beats Activision - BioWare has never abandoned a game like Activision did with Prototype.

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[QUOTE="Prexxus"] Actually The Witcher 2 is going to be multi-platform as well.

Prexxus

Actually no its not...

They want to do a console game but there is nothing in development for consoles as far as The Witcher goes.

There was a version beign worked on but they stopped working on it.

For consoles as of now there is NO WAY to preorder The Witcher1, The Witcher2 or WITCHER CONSOLE VERSION = fact

They want to make a game on consoles and I am sure they will in the future.

Sure itll happen in a few years, weither its a console version of The Witcher or a port we dont know.

Only thing we know forsure is that they WANT to work on consoles but there is no set dates for release, any previews or anything yet.

Hell, I even called EB Games and Walmart for kicks and asked them when THE WITCHER2 for xbox or ps3 is coming out and they said we dont have anything about a game called The Witcher for those systems, just have The Witcher1 for PC and preorder for The Witcher2 on PC that is it.

Dragon Age 2, duh. What with being a heavily advertised multiplatform action-RPG game and all.

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[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

Actually no its not...

They want to do a console game but there is nothing in development for consoles as far as The Witcher goes.

There was a version beign worked on but they stopped working on it.

kozzy1234

As of now there is NO WAY to preorder The Witcher1, The Witcher2 or WITCHER CONSOLE VERSION = fact

They want to make a game on consoles and I am sure they will in the future, but as of RIGHT NOW there is no set date for release of ANY Witcher games on consoles.

Sure itll happen in a few years, weither its a console version of The Witcher or a port we dont know.

Only thing we know forsure is that they WANT to work on consoles but there is no set dates for release, any previews or anything yet.

I would say Dragon Age, because even though the Witcher is popular, Bioware is a very very well known company.

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[QUOTE="Prexxus"] They've said it multiple times that The Witcher 2's engine was specifically built to support consoles as well. Pretty sure they didn't go through all that trouble to not release it on consoles. And they've repeatedly said they're "not talking about that right now" which we all know means they're planing on releasing it for the consoles sooner or later.

Prexxus

As of now there is NO WAY to preorder The Witcher1, The Witcher2 or WITCHER CONSOLE VERSION = fact

They want to make a game on consoles and I am sure they will in the future, but as of RIGHT NOW there is no set date for release of ANY Witcher games on consoles.

Sure itll happen in a few years, weither its a console version of The Witcher or a port we dont know.

Only thing we know forsure is that they WANT to work on consoles but there is no set dates for release, any previews or anything yet.

It won't be an easy task on consoles.

On the PC, TW1's main folder is 13.3 GB in size. The intro cinematic alone is half a GB, and runs > 500 fps on the PC.

[QUOTE="Prexxus"][QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

As of now there is NO WAY to preorder The Witcher1, The Witcher2 or WITCHER CONSOLE VERSION = fact

They want to make a game on consoles and I am sure they will in the future, but as of RIGHT NOW there is no set date for release of ANY Witcher games on consoles.

Sure itll happen in a few years, weither its a console version of The Witcher or a port we dont know.

Only thing we know forsure is that they WANT to work on consoles but there is no set dates for release, any previews or anything yet.

topsemag55

It won't be an easy task on consoles.

On the PC, TW1's main folder is 13.3 GB in size. The intro cinematic alone is half a GB, and runs > 500 fps on the PC.

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[QUOTE="Prexxus"] They've said it multiple times that The Witcher 2's engine was specifically built to support consoles as well. Pretty sure they didn't go through all that trouble to not release it on consoles. And they've repeatedly said they're "not talking about that right now" which we all know means they're planing on releasing it for the consoles sooner or later.

Prexxus

As of now there is NO WAY to preorder The Witcher1, The Witcher2 or WITCHER CONSOLE VERSION = fact

They want to make a game on consoles and I am sure they will in the future, but as of RIGHT NOW there is no set date for release of ANY Witcher games on consoles.

Sure itll happen in a few years, weither its a console version of The Witcher or a port we dont know.

Only thing we know forsure is that they WANT to work on consoles but there is no set dates for release, any previews or anything yet.

I would not bet your house on that.........

I'll say this... within the next 3 years I expect SOME KIND of The Witcher on consoles. Weither its the same game jsut a port or a totally differnt dmbed down versino like Baldurs Gate2 was for consoles remains to be seen.

People said the same thing about ARMA2 coming to consoles last year... it never happened. The company talked about WANTING to bring a ARMA type game to consoles but nothing forsure, they even had some videos of them playing with a xbox360 controller... just like The Witcher2.

Why is it that I can preorder any 2011 game but not The Witcher2 on consoles?

Dragon Age 2 probably. Cause it's gonna be multiplatform and it's just a consolized and dumbed down version of DA1. murekkep

Can I have your crystal ball? Thanks! Will save me from buying some bad games in the future!

Dragon Age.

By far.

edit - even if we're just considering PC sales.

[QUOTE="murekkep"]Dragon Age 2 probably. Cause it's gonna be multiplatform and it's just a consolized and dumbed down version of DA1. kozzy1234

Can I have your crystal ball? Thanks! Will save me from buying some bad games in the future!

Dragon age purely because bioware is well known and popular. They've released many games, and this is CD Projekt Red's second game.

Bioware has a fanbase as rabid as Blizzards. If they crapped in a box it would sell millions on the company name alone. So Dragon Age 2 will be the bigger success.

Bioware has a fanbase as rabid as Blizzards. If they crapped in a box it would sell millions on the company name alone. So Dragon Age 2 will be the bigger success.

Whiteblade999

Mass Effect 2 for example sold 1.5 million in two months.

It's out on PS3 now, but it did poorly ( No marketing will do that).

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Bioware has a fanbase as rabid as Blizzards. If they crapped in a box it would sell millions on the company name alone. So Dragon Age 2 will be the bigger success.

GeneralShowzer

Mass Effect 2 for example sold 1.5 million in two months.

It's out on PS3 now, but it did poorly ( No marketing will do that).

But the problem is the only Digital sales numbers included in that 1.5 million are the ones from the EA Store. We never hear about sales from the major DD websites.

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[QUOTE="Whiteblade999"]

Bioware has a fanbase as rabid as Blizzards. If they crapped in a box it would sell millions on the company name alone. So Dragon Age 2 will be the bigger success.

topsemag55

Mass Effect 2 for example sold 1.5 million in two months.

It's out on PS3 now, but it did poorly ( No marketing will do that).

But the problem is the only Digital sales numbers included in that 1.5 million are the ones from the EA Store. We never hear about sales from the major DD websites.

Dragon Age 2 by far..lawlessx

i bought both...but im gonna say that dragon age 2 is gonna sell more...just cause its from a huge developer and its already bein advertised much more than witcher 2...and frankly...many more people in the ocmmunity liked dragon age better than the witcher...(i liked them both...they are different experiences and i dont compare them too much cause they are very different games even if they are both rpg's)

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Dragon Age2 will sell more i am 90% sure.

Its on 3 systems (PC, xbox and ps3).

If I had to guess though, I would say The Witcher2 will be the better game, but looking forward to them both alot!
Got em both preordered!

Waiting patiently to see if Dragon Age 2 can be as enjoyable to me as Origins was ;)

Prexxus

[QUOTE="Gooeykat"]On the PC, I think The Witcher 2 will sell more. I think it sold something like 1.5 copies, last I heard. Whereas DAO sold less than a million copies by latest account. But they will probably never release the final sales numbers, so who knows. Of course, DA2 will sell more overall because it multiplat, the original sold 4 million copies and the sequel is now customized more for consoles, so I think they can easily break that number.GeneralShowzer

I can't find the link, the last official report they gave was that it sold 3.2 million units (console) and Bioware said that it sold 4 million across all systems. So it was assumed that the 800K difference was PC sales. Plus Laidlaw, lead designer on DA2, said it sold far better on consoles, so that is where the focus for DA2 was going to be.

probably DA 2.:(

Dragon age was bad, DA 2 looks worse.

The Witcher was great, TW 2 looks better.

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="Gooeykat"]On the PC, I think The Witcher 2 will sell more. I think it sold something like 1.5 copies, last I heard. Whereas DAO sold less than a million copies by latest account. But they will probably never release the final sales numbers, so who knows. Of course, DA2 will sell more overall because it multiplat, the original sold 4 million copies and the sequel is now customized more for consoles, so I think they can easily break that number.Gooeykat

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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"] Not really. Bioware's games are not as successful scaled to the reviews they are getting.

Mass Effect 2 for example sold 1.5 million in two months.

It's out on PS3 now, but it did poorly ( No marketing will do that).

GeneralShowzer

But the problem is the only Digital sales numbers included in that 1.5 million are the ones from the EA Store. We never hear about sales from the major DD websites.

I've heard some talk in some threads that Valve doesn't talk much about how many of each game they sell. You don't see NPD adding in DD sales either.