revised estimate considering release dates.
HOTD will out do Deadly Creatures in the 1st week US and EU. Tenchu, which releases the week before in US, will most likely spread out potential core dollar.
Fortunately SF4, which launches a week after DC and HOTD, will either only take core market with the 1 system or possibly force a decision on duel system owners.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
