| Soriku said: Yeah, maybe to you. But if it sold 100% sell through then it would've exceeded Namco's expectations...so they won't drop support. |
Hardly.
Their job is to ship as much as they think they CAN sell. The trick is to not ship too much, and not ship too many.
If they shipped 10K and the game sold 9K, it doesn't necessarily mean that it met their sales forecasts, just that they got the supply about right. We are talking about the first week here after all.
For actual expectations about how many copies of a game they expect to sell, you can sometimes find the information in financial reports. In short, their sales forcasts..
This particular game looks like it is going to sell very poorly.
It's interesting how things change. A year ago everyone was high on the Wii Kool-Aid, with all games being supposedly dirt cheap to develop and selling truck loads. Now, it's a very different story.
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