EA releases Fight Night Round 4 DLC, dubious sales data

should we be surprised that such a ridiculous omission of the face buttons is followed by an equally ridiculous of actual sales numbers?

Where's the press report about sales numbers?

Can you do my calculus homework for me Ludwig? Pleeeeeeaaaaaase!

1 million units sold to retailers, duh.

Either that or the fact that it's already late August, and I'm sure EA has better data provided than Joe forumgoer or Joystiq.

Hopefully the alternate costumes include the famous "Oscar de La Hoya wearing fishnets and high heels" that he likes to take photos in so much.

if i remember correctly there are a few places that dont report sales data to npd. im sure walmart is the #1 retailer that doesnt release that sort of info, theres probably a more but i dunno for sure.

I played FNR 3 and was an advocate for face buttons. When I heard that FNR4 had no face buttons, I was pretty upset and said "fuck this game". I never liked TPC because it's pretty inaccurate and you can spam just as much as you could with face buttons. The new TPC makes it more dubious gave me initial frustrations, but I swallowed my pride and tried out the new TPC.

Honestly, the mechanics still feel awkward and imprecise, but I got used to the feel now and can do what I need to do 80% of the time. I am a hardcore fighting game player (SF series, GGXXAC, MvC2, CvS2, VF series, Tekken series) and I know that precision and execution are so important in a fighting game, but in FNR 4 you get some space for error, so its not as bad as I thought it would be. I still prefer buttons, but you lose a few things here and there (no button for marquee punch, wtf). Either way, I can play this game competently enough to where I can look over its flaws.

De la Hoya, huh? Nice. I wish the DLC had included Holyfield as well. Or even Marciano. BTW.... which is exactly Foreman's alternate look?

Traded this junk in for batman, I'd say I made the right choice.

The camera still sucks.

Wobbly camera is wobbly. I swear EA MMA better not have that shit!

I like Mike and Ali but they should have had Pacquaio on the cover.

Did they asy 1million in the US or 1million worldwide?

Didn't see it mentioned, but last time it was reported as being $10 - turns out it's only $5. Not that they didn't already nickel and dime us for the Madden stuff already, but hey, at least it's a bit more easier to swallow.

While I was working at Gamestop when this released, all of a sudden the company started cutting hours left and right, even ending an inspection mid-visit at the store near my house. No store I knew had enough hours to get by without some sacrifices, and Gamestop started requiring 6-day work weeks from all Store Managers (because they are salaried and don't get paid past 40, so forcing them to work 60 means the company doesn't have to pay other people). That was all because the game bombed so hard and Gamestop would rather f*** all of it's employees in the @$$ than look like it didn't make enough money to please stockholers.

Every store even had DOZENS of FN4 in their back rooms that were expected to go quickly and didn't (my store was tiny and we had maybe 60 back there, likely 1/2 of what some bigger stores had).

Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted to show just how badly these sales numbers really are - one of the biggest game retailers in the world went absolutely apesh*y because of them.

Could it possibly be worldwide figures? Duh!!! You know billions of people live outside america.

NPD doesn't track all retailers with the biggest omission being Walmart.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous numbers . . ..

[Hey look, my comment was deleted because I'm annoying!]

Test. Test.

So I guess I won't be playing online anymore now that the cheat button configuration is available. The fair playing field was fun while it lasted. Thanks a lot EA.

The only reason I care about sales numbers for ANY game is because if I like it, those help determine whether there will be a sequel, sometimes. I think the FN4 will continue unless the numbers are extremely putrid to the point where they are not making some sort of profit, at all.

Other than that, I love FN4. Best boxing game ever, imo. I was rocking out the last 2 nights against a couple of the new fighters. My only issue was how the old, fat and actually slow George Foreman seemed too quick with his punches and took an ASS WHOOPIN' from my younger George Foreman to the point that he shoulda been "dead" by the 5th or 6th round. Somehow, dude made it to the final round before he wouldn't get up from the canvas. The previous round, I knocked him down 4 TIMES and he kept getting up. NO way that shoulda happened especially against the young George Foreman and the way I DESTROYED him in each round.
Oh, and the funny thing was how we both seemed to tire at the SAME TIME in the 8th. Didn't make sense. EA has to work on that

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Now that's Funny...

This title was really disappointing. The lack of depth is really apparent after you finish career mode.

Then ads it added in the DLC are really obtrusive and annoying. I'm sorry, I maybe old school but if I pay $60 for a game, there's no wiggle-room for ads. I didn't pay some sort of discounted price, I paid a lot of money already. You're not giving me a free service in return for ads.

I returned this game within 1 month for in-store credit.