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uhohspagettios on 07 August 2008
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
uhohspagettios said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Less than Soul Calibur, so i'd say 2.5 million (at the very most) in its lifetime. To be very truthful because it's Only Sony's installed base buying it i'd say a healthy 1.5 to 2 Million is healthy.

Tekken has always been more popular than Soul Calibur, and even if it's not multiplat, considering SC's less than stellar debut in Japan/Europe/others, I don't think Tekken will have too hard of a time surpassing it (especially in Europe, where Tekken is very popular, if the PSN downloads of DR are any indication).

That said, fighters just aren't that lucrative anymore, so I say 2 million lifetime sales.

 

 

Watch commercialism work it's magic. The Tekken franchise might be my favorite franchise, but it hasn't sold incredibly well since Tekken 3..selling over 4.5 M copies. Ever since then it's been around or below 2 million.

And even with that...it's still more popular than SC. SC is looking to be about 500k between 2 different platforms on the first week, which, considering all the promotion for it, isn't really that great.

What Namco has to do is promote Tekken 6 just as much as they did SC4. This is a new gen, and with few T6 arcade machines in the U.S., people will have to buy the game to play it.

The game won't sell as well as Tekken 3 of course, but for a fighter, 2 million is decent because, as I said before, fighters just aren't that lucrative anymore. I do, however, believe that it will sell better than Tekken 5 (it's already doing better in arcades than T5, as well).