You're thinking I was talking about five days for Borderlands 3, and not what it was really about: An unspecified five days of sales comparison for Borderlands 2 sales figures. You're missing the point entirely and this is precisely why they can put this exact sort of thing in these releases and get away with it. People just ignore what is said and the context. It's carefully worded for this exact reason. It's literally their job.
It's not that unspecific, the PR statement basically says that if you take any 5 days of bl2 sales then bl3 beat that in its 5 day launch period.
That is certainly a way of looking at it, which is precisely what they bank on when writing this kind of stuff up.
You still havent said how it's spin to say bl3 outsold bl2 in any 5 day window.
What were they otherwise supposed to say 7 days after release, if not to state that the game comfortably beat its predecessor's launch? No one expected BL3 to beat lifetime BL2 sales in a week.
11m of the 23m that bought it aren't mainstream. You heard it right here.
"Borderlands 3 PC outsold Borderlands 2 in the same five day window specific to September 19, 2019 through September 23, 2019." See? That would probably be true. That gives a clear window of time for both games. However, they do not specify what 5 day window they're talking about for Borderland's 2 sales in the actual release. It's intentionally vague. That's the point. That's literally the entire point.
I can't tell anymore if some of you people are being intentionally obtuse or not.
Im gonna be honest here. It honestly does not matter what 5 day period it is when it comes to bl2. Bl2 took a month and a half to get to 5m, bl3 did that in 5 days. And further more, that was 5m shipped for bl2. You can pick any 5 day period in the last 7 years and it will not have a higher sold in than bl3.
Then it's still a throwaway "fact." It's only purpose is to sound good without any context, which people will obviously lap up wholesale. Without context it's meaningless. It's fluff.
Come on buddy. They clearly mean the first 5 days of BL2 on sale, not any arbitrary 5-day window. Unless you seriously believe there was another window where BL2 could have possibly sold 67% of what BL3 sold in its first 5 days.
Like when the Handsome Collection was on sale for PC everywhere for like $2 and everyone bought it?
The user asked for another possible window and yeah, there were additional windows for possible selling records even after the first release. Also nobody is talking about "launch month" but we're talking about this specific 5-days period. You're welcome to join the discussion if you want to.
You really think that had such a great effect that it made the game sell more in its launch month? :lol. Game had already been on sale multiple times for years for $5 anyway
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