http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/07/22/tales_of_xillia_preorders/

Tales of Xillia will be PS3's first original Tales game. Namco Bandai is expecting a lot from the game, as revealed in this marketing chart:

This chart shows pre-orders for Xillia, in red, and the PS3 versions of Graces, in yellow, and Vesperia, in blue. Pre-order numbers are on the vertical axis. The horizontal axis shows weeks before release, starting at 13 to the left.

For Vesperia, pre-orders 11 weeks before release were under 50,000. The final pre-order count was 140,000 units.

Graces had a similar pre-order pattern as Vesperia, but eventually topped it with 150,000.

For Xillia, only the first two weeks of data currently exist. The game has already reached pre-orders of 80,000 units.

The rest of the Xillia data is Namco Bandai's forecast. The company expects the game to top the 200,000 mark in pre-orders. The game is getting pre-orders at record pace for the series, the company says.

This second image shows how the PS3 versions of Vesperia and Graces outperformed previous versions on other platforms.

Vesperia sold 210,000 units on Xbox 360 in 2008. On PS3 in 2009, it sold 420,000 units. Graces sold 220,000 units on Wii in 2009. On PS3 in 2010, the renamed "Graces F" sold 345,000 units.

Based off this pattern, Namco Bandai says that Xillia, as an original title, will assuredly top sales of the Vepseria and Graces ports.

Thats good news. The game looks great anyway.

Great. Now announce a release date for North America and Europe.

It is the only JRPG franchise this generation that improved, or one of the few so it deserve better sales..

So I'm guessing Namco expects Tales of Xillia to do something like 300k-350k FW and something like 500k-550k LT?

It could potentially become the best selling Tales of game in Japan after the Destiny series.

Btw we have Tales of Vesperia on the PS3 undertracked by quite a lot (70k).

We'll see a budget re-release of recent Tales of games for the 15th anniversary so I'm curious to see how the sales will be.

Could Tales of Xillia reach 1 million if it ever comes to NA and Europe? Better than that, could it outsell Tales of Symphonia?!

I didnt know they were doing re-releases thats good. and yea I think it can reach 1 million if released everywhere. Vesperia would have.

Now bring it to the states

Yea that was an iterview with one of the main guys at tales stdio and namco. He said graces was around summer next year and thatxillia would come if demand was high enough.

Not only are we undertracking Vesperia, it's also had surprisingly good legs for a JRPG in Japan. It's had at least 1 more shipment since last December when it reached 400k. That's pretty rare for a Japanese game this late into its shelf life. Not to mention with the budget rerelease it could get as high as 600k possibly.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/07/21/tales_of_15th_anniversary/

And it comes in a nifty package I think.