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kber81 said:
Lost Odyssey: 80,000 Units
Virtua Fighter 5: 20,000 Units
X360 Hardware: 35,000 Units

This is a reasonable guess, not low, not really high, but a great showing for the 360, nonetheless.

I would lean toward:

Lost Odyssey: 100,000 Units
Virtua Fighter 5: 35,000 Units
X360 Hardware: 40,000 Units



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Dolla Dolla, I am in agree ment with you on your predictions. You are right in between KBer81 an MrStickball. I saw your post and thought wow, thats exactly what I was about to post. Great minds think alike it seem



Lafiel said:
@ W29 )

quite off-topic

we will see if it does anything or not ,because the price cut/release should be really near , if the rumors are true

 As long as I had a good % on topic



Well, it's more believable than JL's prediction that WiiFit will beat Halo 3 in day 1 sales.

I think more realistically we'll see a bump slightly bigger than with Blue Dragon - in the 38-45K range. Lost Odyssey may be more anticipated, but you have to figure that a lot of the people anticipating it bought a 360 for Blue Dragon last year. As for VF 5, it's sales have actually been about the same as DOA 4 - actually slightly lower. It will probably sell well on 360, but I'm not sure it will rope in a bunch of new customers.



I think the bigger question is: Does it matter?

Sure, even if the 360 reachs the 50k milestone, and otusells the PS3 for a week, it means nothing in the overall holiday season.
With GT5 Prologue, DW6, and WKS (That is still scheduled for end of the year in Japan, right?), the PS3 will easily outsell the 360 almost, and quite likely, every week over the holiday.

It's the same with the PS3 and Wii. Even if the PS3 can beat the Wii a week or two, it doesn't matter unless is can consistently stay at that level.



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LO - 130,000

V5 - 30,000 (WILL BE DROWNED IN LO HYPE)

360 Hardware - 30,000



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My prediction for YEARS END:

WII - 18.3 Million

Xbox 360 - 15 Million

Playstation 3 - 8.5 Million

Quickdraw -

The only argument, though, is that the X360 *should* beat or match the PS3. It never will. It's like a Geo Metro trying to take down a armored bulldozer in a demolition derby - we're not expecting the Geo to win, but if it lands a few blows, that means it did better than expected.

Its like the PS3 vs. Wii in Japan. No one but the insane expect the PS3 to ever come close to the Wii there, but if the PS3 beat the Wii a few weeks, atleast it was fun to see :)

Again, I know my VF5 numbers are a bit high, but I have faith in the X360 market to frontload a game like VF5 alot....Expecially at Christmas.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

Soriku - 3-5k in December for H/W sales? You don't do prediction leagues, do you?



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

I can see LO helping to boost sales of hardware but is the VF series a proven system mover?  I honestly dont know (the last fighters that I remember hearing about pushing hardware was Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat).  Microsoft appears to have bigger problems in the japanese market than software, more of an image issue than anything tangible I think.



Soriku said:
LO - 50K-60K

VF5 - 20K-30K

360 Hardware: 10k-20k

 Halo 3 managed 60K opening week so I cannot imagine Lost Odyssey only managing to match it. Lost Odyssey should be much bigger than the likes of Halo 3 in Japan.



 
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