Sega talks sales: Yakuza 3 broke even, 7th Dragon very good, MadWorld meh

[outlawauron]

Kasz216 said:

outlawauron said:

Kasz216 said:

outlawauron said:

Kasz216 said:

blackstar said:
hasn't Y3 outsold both Y2 and Y1 in Japan?

what were the numbers they were expecting in a much smaller userbase? it's weird really.

there are 2 things that they can do right now:

1- releasing a Yakuza game every year in Japan using the same engine , I guess development costs will only go down because they are familiar with the ps3 techno and the improved engine is here.

2- localizing the game.
I can see them shipping 200k-100 to europe, another 200-100 to NA and 100-50k to Asia.

No.

It had a higher launch... but it really fell off hard.

It just began to fall under Yakuza 2's curve.

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Yakuza+-+PS2&reg2=All&game2=Yakuza+2+-+PS2&reg3=All&game3=Yakuza+3+-+PS3&weeks=100

You don't consider that falling off hard.  I mean look at it.

It started off with 100K more sales.  Then ended up worse that shortly after.

Yakuza 2 started outselling Yakuza 3 week 2.  Week to week.

It started off more successful.  Then by week 2 started selling less.

That's not falling off hard?

Where did I say that? I just made the observation that it fell under Yakuza 2 with week 5's sales.

@ NJ5

You're right! It's going to stop selling completely!

Seemed like you were implying that.  I was shocked myself when i looked at it.  Guess the 1 million prediction will be off.  Didn't think it was a genre that would be hit by the PS3's sales woes.

1 million only in Japan?

That's not going to happen, even Yakuza 2 didn't do that.

I could this passing MGS4 with a cheaper edition.