nightsurge said:
MikeB said:
If NPD's figures is anything to go by, Star Ocean 4, a game also by Square Enix, performed miserably on the 360, failing to hit the top 20 its first full week on the market.
It's possible considering its install base advantage the 360 version might outsell the PS3 version for North America. But it can also be a major driver for PS3 sales if the 360 version ends up being subpar and/or comes supplied on too many discs.
They feverishly attacked Killzone 2's two days sales for February 2009, but that all seems very premature as well. Killzone 2 for example outperformed Uncharted: Drake's Fortune's first week sales tenfold! And Uncharted turned into a million seller for the US/NA.
It will be interesting, I think FF XIII on the PS3 will easily outsell the 360 version for the rest of the world.
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Gotta love MikeB! He turns good things into bad, and bad things into good! Like the Star Ocean 4 debut on the 360 that did incredibly well for a JRPG. it was #1 in Japan first week, Mikey, and only released in NA on February 24th, so only 4 days worth of data for the NPD.
SO 4 was not even in the 360's top 10
it had 4 days on the market in February
Not even in the top 10, still not very good
I don't think many people really care about multi-disc games, especially not Final Fantasy/JRPG fans! Especially if there is some long installations needed for the PS3 version, I'd take 4 discs and a total of 1 minute lost to disc swapping over anywhere between 10-45 minutes of installs depending on how it ends up being.
Well, SE's recent SO 4 had 3 discs, and you have to swap between them multiple times as you have to go back to disc 1 if you want to return to that area. Of course the same thing could happen in FF XIII, but it is unlikely. More likely about 6 discs.
Really? If so this is a first for JRPG games. Usually as you progress through the main story, you change discs. And regardless of if you return to an earlier location, you stay on the same disc. Is there any proof to this SO4 thing? I'd like to see it because that would be annoying if true. Also, I bet FFXIII is 4 discs like LO.
It is a first to my knowledge, if you want proof, it is in all the reviews that I read. I think it will be more than LO, it will have even more FMVs
Killzone 2 beat out a game that only managed a bit over a million LTD so far? GASP NO WAYS! Not sure why you even bring up Killzone 2 sales. For the trumpeted AAA game on the PS3 that it is, it doesn't seem to be faring much better than Resistance 2, which is quite sad, really.
Uncharted has sold 2.6m, 2m before the holiday season which included some bundling
Talking about USA or did you not read MikeB's post?
I read his post, and it has sold 1.2m in the USm, but what he said applied to both US and Others, though his 10:1 ratio was slightly wrong. Uncharted sold 95k in the US proper 1st week, 85k in Others, now 1.2m in US, 1.36m in Others.
I think in the US it will be similar to the Resident Evil 5 ratio, and the rest of the world will likely make the PS3 version sell more. But who cares?!? Just having the ability to buy it and play it on a 360 is a losing situation for Sony and a winning situation for me 
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