Famitsu Sales (12/7 - 12/13)

[ClaudeLv250]

mrstickball said:
Claude -

I am using Famitsu numbers that were updated 2 months ago for Vesperia. That is why I said there'd be a gap to similar to what they are now. The gap will get smaller than 150,000 for awhile, but I don't believe that Graces, given its debut, will outsell Vesperia week in and week out for a very long time.

Also, according to Famitsu, there is a 169,000+ unit gap from the October numbers versus the Graces estimates. That is a bit bigger than your 'barely a 150k gap now' quote.

Finally, if you really feel my numbers have no merit, then lets make an agreement:

You believe ToG will be within 150,000 of Vesperia for LTD #s by when? End of the year? 6 months into 2010? I will bet on the other side. Loser has to respond to a custom made post discussing this very argument.

I'll take that bet. Six months. Who's numbers are we going by? VGC, Famitsu, media create...?

What about Tales of Graces doing 300,000 being on the low end of your expectations?

Like I said when I entered the thread, I expected it to sell more like last gen's Tales games (PS2) than this gen's games (DS). I was wrong. My predictions were based on that belief. Since Vesperia, Innocence, and Hearts weren't picking up the slack, I thought Graces would and bring the series back to its former sales days. That didn't happen.

I have no idea what Namco is going to do. This is a franchise that use to sell 700k last gen and now has people singing praises when Vesperia sells roughly half of that. I hope they come up with an actualy direction. They haven't had one since last gen.