Erik Aston on 11 February 2007
hanafuda said:
Erik Aston said:
Lets just say they need at the LEAST a 300,000+ seller (Japan alone). This isn't going to be close. Wii has 4 hits of that size already in Japan.
Who needs 300,000+?
General rule of thumb in Japan is that anything over 100,000 is a hit, but the reality of that can depend based on the cost of development and PR. VF5 is a port of an arcade game, so dev costs are low, and TV ads here mean PR is a little over average.
What do Wii games have to do with this?
@wii_gamer
Where did you get those figures from?
VF5 was one of the games that was supposed to help PS3 begin to catch up to Wii week-to-week sales. It was the first of several PS3 games coming out in Feb/March that will be looked at in the context of Wii vs. PS3.
It depends how you define the word "hit" I suppose, but 100,000 sales is a pretty mild hit in Japan. There's been well over 1,000 games to reach that mark. Maybe it would be an okay number for the developer all things considered, but in the context of "console wars", it is far from encouraging.
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