| Joemanji said: @ Johnsobas: again preorders are nothing to go by. People who will buy Galaxy will not always preorder. If you interpret preorders you should add instead of substract! Point of comparison Halo3. It had 1 million preorders but sold 3 times more on launch. |
ugh, actually yes preorders are very important because they are retail preorders. Japan is a different beast from America where the majority of the people that want the game will buy it on the first day. In Japan when people finish a game most of them will immediately sell it back to the store, especially when it is a game that is only single player. If the preorders are 700k but 1 million people want the game on the first day, the used copies will hit store far before the second shipment will and the sales will be hurt badly. We saw this on FF3 DS in Japan when the second shipment couldn't make it in time and it probably lost at least 200k in sales.
Anyway, with preorders of 700k it isn't possible for galaxy to sell more than 700k in the first week because that is all the supply there is for the first week.
currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X
