Famitsu: Star Ocean 4: 166,027, X360: 24,584

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Rei said:

Euphoria14 said:

Egghead said:

mrstickball said:
I think people are forgetting the possibility of this game having good legs. ToV and BD both had awesome legs, so it's possible that a supply-strapped SO4 could see very good legs, and double it's sales over it's lifetime.

Let's give it a week to see what happens to it's legs before passing a lot of judgment.

As for hardware, the 360 is experiencing diminishing returns, as the average sales per week is picking up. Every console sees this. If a Wii game launched, and sold a similar number of software units, it may not see a boost at all. If you look at the hardware sales after a 'big' software title launches, you can see that as the HW install base grows, it takes more and more software units pushed to equal a hardware spike. This is normal, folks.

Now, having said that, I think the 360 should see hardware sales over 10k for the next 2 months, or so. 2009 is blowing every other year out of the water for the 360.

Blue Dragon sold well for so long because it was THE game that you wanted for the 360. If you wanted a 360, then youd also have to get BD with it, and everyone who had a 360, this was like Halo or MGS, it was THE game your system needed. I too am really shocked that ToV sold another 10k units since start of the year, but it still wasnt a BD sized game

 

It also helped that Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey were created by a genuis of a man named Hironobu Sakaguchi.

Not to mention another genuis of a man named Nobuo Uematsu.

   I dont think this was of any help, actually. Japanese gamers have shown thay dont really care about either Sakaguchi or Uematsu as long as those dont work with SE. Lost Odyssey is the lowest selling 360 jRPG-exclusive in Japan and Mistwalker's DS efforts have been completely ignored in the region (ASH, Blue Dragon DS)

   The reason why Blue Dragon has shown such a strong legs is because it was probably seen as some kind of a "launch title" for 360. Having a cartoon based on it and Akira Toriyama as a character designer also helped, obviously.

 

 

Helped me hop on board though so that at least makes one. I am a fan of Uematsu's work.

Toriyama also does teh DragonQuest art doesn't he? That I could see as being a nice help.