| mrstickball said: Am I the only one that still thinks Lost Odyssey will do rather well in Japan?!? Atleast from a hardware standpoint.
After Blue Dragon launched, the X360 sold 95,000 units in just 21 days. It's an absolute fact that Blue Dragon alone moved no less than 125,000 units of hardware. So using those numbers, and having the X360 only a measly 4 weeks in December, it's entirely feasable that LO could move 250,000+ units (mind you, Blue Dragon moved 130,000 units in the same timeframe), and 135,000 hardware units in the month (with last year's being around 100,000). |
I really like Microsofts strategy in Japan and it's great to follow your coverage of the X360 on the Japanese market, mrstickball.
I remember last year and the happy surprise with the Blue Dragon and X360 hardware sales in Japan, and one could almost feel that Xbox could become a console to reckon with against the PS3 over there.
Since then though the Japs disappointed me a little not realizing how great of a game Oblivion is (the best game ever made IMO) selling only what, 60-70 K for the X360? I was hoping for at least 120,000 copies. Well, now we know for a fact that they don't care for western RPGs over there, despite quality.
250,000 copies of Lost Odyssey and 135,000 of X360 hardware sold in Japan in Dec '07 would be absolutely fantastic. If that happens, the X360 is back in the game again. I'd be more than happy with 150,000 LO and 100,000 X360's in just one month, but for some reason I'm afraid it will have a hard time reaching 125K (with 75K hardware). Perhaps because there has been no hype, or barely info at all, on our game sites about Lost Odyssey in the past ½ a year.
