What do you think of "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" sales?

[Euphoria14]

mrstickball said:

Euphoria14 said:

MOmO_X said:
I think in NA they can sell over 400k within 1 years in Japan 350k in PAL 250k , life time sell should be 1 million or higher

Game sold only 60k first week, in order to hit 400k, let alone 300k you have to expect this game to have legs comparable or better than a Final Fantasy.

I am not sure if JRPGs other than Final Fantasy ever had those kind of legs.

Anyone know of a JRPG with legs that allowed it to have lifetime sales 500-600% better than launch week sales in Americas?

On the 360? We have:

Lost Odyssey - 5.5x multiplier and counting (101k opening, 550k LTD)

The Last Remnant - 5.2x multiplier and counting (44k opening, 220k LTD)

Blue Dragon - 6x multiplier and counting (60k opening, 360k LTD)

Eternal Sonata - 6.4x multiplier (28k opening, 180k LTD)

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom - 6.6 multiplier (36k opening, 240k LTD)

So I'd say the 360 has a good track record for >5x multipliers. I go back to the issue that we really have no weekly data for old PS2 JRPGs to really say how good SO4 is tracking vs. SO3. For all we know, SO3 could have debuted at 60k and had massive legs. Given the data we have now, I'd say that it's a great possibility that JRPGs in the US have much better legs than their Japanese counterparts. Heck, Final Fantasy VI (III US) only debuted with 30,000 units in it's first month in America.

I seriously hope you are right Mr. Stickball, because from how I see it I don't think the Lifetime sales will be that great and I doubt it will have legs surpassing that of a Final Fantasy. I would like to see this series (given userbase differences) at least achieve 50% of SO3 LTD sales in Americas.

Did VGChartz update The Last Remnant yet? For end of 2008 VGChartz had TLR at 484,000 copies sold and S-E shipment figures released last month said TLR shipped 490k by Dec. 31st, 2008. Unless the game was flying off shelves as fast as it shipped then I am pretty sure the game is overtracked here.

Is KoF a JRPG?