For reference...Blue Dragon dropped to #39 from it's debut at #4, posting a 78.1% drop from the previous week. If numbers are true, ToV will post a 83.0% drop.
There would be a few reasons that the PS3 may get a boost this week for 'no apparent reason': It's Obon holiday. Every system gets a massive SW and HW boost this week. Unfortunately for the X360, it's still sold out, it seems.
And having said that, if the X360 is indeed supply constrained (still), that would mean that new owners that most likely want a X360 and Tales of Vesperia, are unable to get a new system and copy. This may cause the strong drop, as there are still wannabe X360 owners out there that want to buy the game, but have no system to play it on.
At any rate though, speaking for ToV, the drop isn't surprising. It IS a Tales game. Most Tales games see 70% of their LTD sales in their first week. I predicted ToV to hit 150k before everything is said and done, which seems like a very solid prediction.
Oh, by the way: ToS2 for the Wii had a 83.8% drop it's first week - higher than what The Source has projected for ToV. Not too bad considering the Wii has around an extra 5.5 million consoles that consumers could of bought the game for.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
