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dolemit3 said:
Square Enix is now probably debating if they should make a 360 port of FFXIII for Japan and squeeze a few hundred k more sales.

Must also be wondering what SO4 would have don't on the PS3, still confuses me about why there was not a simultaneous release for the game for the PS3 and 360. Would have done very nicely on PS3 but instead it did considerable worse than the other games from the franchise.

FFXIII on 360 in Japan could happen, just wonder if they think 300k sales is worth it after all the promises they have made. It would also have to release day and date with the PS3 version to make any sense which again would mean everyone knew they were chatting shit about "360 version being made during localization" which anyone with a brain knows is not the case.



 

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Dead Rising sales don't surprise me (they only shipped 20k) - but the Shining Force sales do. What sort of scores did it (Shining Force) get?

Excellent SO4 sales. If MS can show Japanese developers that 360 games in Japan *can* sell well - Sony (PS3) could be in a lot of trouble. No question that the 360 has picked up a lot of traction recently.

Imagine if MS releases a reliable, slimline 360 - with a motion controller - at a discount price, bundled with a couple of the big games in Japan. Hello sales!



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Good for SO4. Will the 360 be the top selling console in Japan this week?



Very good sales & sellthrough for SO4. I was hoping it'd at least do 100k day-1. 80% sellthrough is also very good. We should expect at least 160k first week.

But I wonder - does the 130k include bundles? Could be even better (140k-ish) if bundles are excluded.

Very good sales for Idolmaster PSP.



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@shams

how?

A new IP from Level 5 OUTSOLD the first week of SO4.......SO which is a BIG franchise compared to a "new IP"

frankly thats showing me Japanese companies need to put their JRPG's on PS3

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Disappointing SO4 Sales most definetely......BUT as I said AMAZING 360 Software sales for it



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shams said:


Excellent SO4 sales. If MS can show Japanese developers that 360 games in Japan *can* sell well - Sony (PS3) could be in a lot of trouble. No question that the 360 has picked up a lot of traction recently.


so - 106k first week. so2 - 375k first week. so3 - 396k first week. so4 -



Star ocean is a popular rpg in japan so the sales is diappointing, consediring its exclusive (no mention of ps3 version so no pepole will wait for it as they say what happened with TLR) and got high scores.I mean whie knight sold a bout 130K first day and its a new ip and got an averge scores



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shams said:
Dead Rising sales don't surprise me (they only shipped 20k) - but the Shining Force sales do. What sort of scores did it (Shining Force) get?

Excellent SO4 sales. If MS can show Japanese developers that 360 games in Japan *can* sell well - Sony (PS3) could be in a lot of trouble. No question that the 360 has picked up a lot of traction recently.

Imagine if MS releases a reliable, slimline 360 - with a motion controller - at a discount price, bundled with a couple of the big games in Japan. Hello sales!

 

I really do hope that was a joke, an established franchise doing well should come as no shock even though it sold much lower than the other SO games. This week Japanese devs will think 360 is the HD platform of choice and then next week everyone will shit bricks when the Ryu Ga Gokotu numbers release right?

Short terms memory only, many people on this forum seem to have that problem.



 

130k is good for the 360 but it could have done so much better on the Wii or PS3. But then good for the 360 does not mean good for the game.



Hmm, pie.

Another bomb for the Wii, but for once Im happy about it =)