Tales of Vesperia in Japan: Rumors & Facts from NeoGAF

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brute said:

mrstickball said:
Tales has a long, tough road to out-sell Blue Dragon.

I think that BD's first week record of 86,000 units in Japan (best for a X360 game), can be out-done by Tales. However, the fact that Blue Dragon kept selling...And selling...And selling...Was genre-defying.

It'll be interesting to see what happens. If it can get near ToS2...Oh man. That's going to be epic!

  but there is also a bundle of ToV and 360 right,i read some where(cant remember exactly)but theyre was 7,000 of those and all sold out.Its incredible if they all sold out

Yes. There's the official Tales of Vesperia Bundle. But the sad sad issue is that it seems that the initial run of bundles was in the 7,000 units. The Blue Dragon bundle was somewhere insane - like near 50,000 units. Hopefully Namco/MS find a way to get more bundles. So ToV has a huge hill to climb to get near Blue Dragon. It not only sold insanely well on it's first week (for the userbase), but had good legs. Tales games, as evidenced by ToS2, do not have great legs, and it would take a massive push by MS, and the emergence of the X360 as the lead JRPG console (in terms of people actually buying it as such in Japan), to reach Blue Dragon's 210,000 total.

It's entirely possible, as ToS2 on the Wii will certainly break Blue Dragon's sales numbers, but again...With the X360 userbase..It'll be hard. Selling 150,000+ would be GREAT for the X360 and for Namco, I think.