Japan First Day Sales (11/13)

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papflesje said:

mrstickball said:

papflesje said:
@ mrstickball: checking the VGC numbers, it has done week1 + week2 numbers already, so it has a headstart over the previous iteration already. Maybe even 3 weeks headstart compared to the previous one. But indeed, it'll depend on legs to beat the previous one in total.

According to Famitsu, Resistance 1 sold around 15,000 units on week 1, which was ok. The impressive part was the legs, which most likely was due to the fact that it was a launch title.

Resistance 1 was a major success by selling near 150,000 units over it's lifetime. I would of expected Resistance 2 to sell more since the first one did so well (ala what we've seen with Gears of War 2, and even Resistance 2 here in NA).

 

True, so it'll probably do week1+2 weeks this time around.

But it went up in sales around week 6 or so, was it released around the holidays too?  Or was it being bundled at that time?

Resistance 1 was released in Japan on launch day - so the Week 6-8 boost was due to the fact the Playstation 3 saw renewed sales in Japan for Christmas/Holiday.

The arugment I have against R2's first day being *gasp* bad is that the Playstation 3 is in a (respectively) far worse position to give a Western FPS game good legs, so it needed to have a breakout first week - which it did not have. I may be proven wrong, and R2 will have great legs at Christmas, but I don't see it happening - not for an FPS. Why did it need to have a bigger first week, IMO? The Playstation 3 isn't going to move the number of consoles this Christmas as it did it's first Christmas - and there's a far bigger & better selection of games available. Why buy an older, niche game like Resistance 2 when WKS will be out?

The comparison I can give would be the Halo series in Japan - the first one did remarkably well, given the country and horrendous install base of the Xbox in Japan. Despite the fact Halo 2 was much higher-hailed than #1, it did absolutely horrible in Japan, and is the worst selling of the series. According to Famitsu, #1 sold 74,000 units while #2 sold 46,000 units. H3 is the best selling of the series at 83,500 units.