First day sales in Japan - Star Ocean IV, Idolmaster SP, Shining Force DS

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Soriku said:

@Cactus and Bitmap

But ToS: DotNW was a spin off. ToV was a main series. ToS: DotNW still outsold ToV, and it definitely costed less too. I think we'll see with Tales of Ten how much a main Tales game can sell on the Wii. Since ToT is being made by Team Destiny most likely, I expect big sales because Team Destiny's games sell A LOT in Japan (I think their lowest selling game was over 600k).

Anyway, as people have said, good SW for the 360 but not that good for the series.

I think we forget that ToS2 was still the first 'next-gen' Tales to come out, and may have got a boost fron adopters looking for the first Tales, rather than the non-Spinoff. I believe there were a few posts about that exact thing - Japanese gamers grumbling about being unable to buy Vesperia since ToS came out on another system first. I think that if the launches weren't so close, or we flipped around the release dates, sales may be an entirely different story.