Does anyone know what the pre-orders where for Gamestop? Since it was a Gamestop exclusive and it's so niche I'd think most potential buyers pre-ordered it. The game only appeals to a very limited market which is why Nintendo didn't think it was worth spending the money to localize and why it is such a limited release. I pre-ordered it because it's so limited I didn't want to have to pay ebay prices for a collector's item when the game goes into Panzer Dragoon Saga mode, which is another game I pre-ordered and loved and wished had a wider release to get the respect it deserves.

Hmm, Conegamer, sorry for biting your thread, I really have to get better at looking for a thread I want to post on my own. Sorry. I based my guess on the assumption that the preorder totals here were correct. I really hope that this game sells well here. I think anything over 200K has to be seen as a victory. Long live the JRPG!

Seeing only gamestop and nintendo are selling it. I say 50,000 at best. Maybe 150,000 by the end of the month.

Maybe 100k-150k.

Woo... you guys have much more faith in this GameStop/Nintendo.com exclusive than I do.

I'd say 120k... and I feel like that's generous. Hopefully I'm wrong though, as it is quite the game. ^_^

I say a obtimistic 200k.

Pre orders are currently above 187,000 so the game should at least reach 201,530 by the end of first week.

I stand by my 120k prediction I made last month (for USA).

You guys are way too optimistic. 60-75k max.

I said 60k in conegamers thrad.. though I was lowballing because I thought everyone was to optimistic.

My reasoning is FFXIII-2 did twice as good in here than in europe first week. And I believe it had twice as many pre-orders as it sold. So I applied that here. VGC's data's been so off especially preorders and JRPG's I just ignore it.