| Nick said: Maybe you should laugh and cry. Laugh about the 30k and then cry after you realize that it's been outsold 49m to 21m. |
Well, let's take a look at how big those releases were. Yakuza is a B grade series on the Playstation in terms of popularity. So, I would definitely buy Yakuza 3, Kenshan!, and especially Shenmue 3 (another game that could be coming exclusively to the PS3 if Suzuki works with the Yakuza team on it), but it's not by any stretch of the imagination even one of the biggest frachises in Playstation or video game history like Final Fantasy and Gran Turismo.
RE5, yeah RE, is a huge series. But this game was multiconsole (still the PS3 version sold multiple times what the 360 version did in Japan). However, if you look at sales for post-PS1 Resident Evil games, you'll see that none of them have sold that well in Japan (Code Veronica on Dreamcast sold 0.47 million copies in Japan, the Wii, PS2, and GC combined have only sold 0.81 copies of RE4, and Resident Evil 5 on the PS3 has already sold half that number there RE5 PS3 = 0.43).
And White Knight Chronicles was just an average rpg from a company whose games have yet to sell as many copies as Square Enix games and it only received average reviews in Famitsu (while FFXIII will probably get a perfect score), yet it has managed to sell almost twice as many copies of almost all jrpgs released on the 360 over there. It even sold 140,000 copies more than Square's Star Ocean which is in an established franchise.
So, I would say that these games are in no way the same type size of releases that Gran Turismo and two Final Fantasy titles are (the demo of Gran Turismo 5 sold .67 million copies in Japan last year, so you can expect twice as many sales for the full game). Series which have never failed to sell well in excess of a million copies in Japan no matter what system they were on.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
