Famitsu sales (8/10 - 8/16)

[johnsobas]

mibuokami said:

Naum said:
So MH3 is FAIL just beacuse some people on this forum thought it would sell alot more the first couple of weeks..... wow just wow... are some of you really really that sad?.

MH3 failed because it failed the publisher's expectation, not because some random and spiteful fanboy's on the internet said so. And yes Capcom was expecting bigger sale than this as they forecast 1.5 million shipment in Japan which won't happen.

So no its not sad its being realistic.

Take SE for example, they expected to Ship 5 million DQIX lifetime and have alread shipped 3 million, they're obviously banking on the popularity of the series for the initial burst and the popularity of the DS for the longetivity, and since its actually proving to be a fairly well recieved game leg wise, I can actually see the 5 million shipped being achieved. But if sales stop tomorrow, even with the monstrous sale it has already achieve, it still failed.

Depends on your definition of a failure, if DQ9 gets to 4 million and stops it's really hard to call it a failure even if SE tells me they expected 5 million.  4 million would make it the second best selling DQ ever in Japan, development costs are low on DS, and they are selling side quests.  I'm sure they're making a fortune off the game.