Koei Tecmo fall significantly (blames poor SM3 sales and more)

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Buzzi said:

stof said:

Buzzi said:
It's the 5th best selling Sengoku Musou game, still selling and at 250k just in Japan...I don't understand how it could have sold bad! It even outperformed Famitsu's expectations!

Do we know what Koei's expectations were? I often hear Famitsu mentioned, but their sales estimates have no bearing at all on a publisher's expectations or profits.

I personally don't know, but I can't think their expectations were the double of the Famitsu ones...clearly the game is declining in Japan, and even on PS2 it reached only 500k; add the fact it isn't that great of a game (technically speaking) and that the genre is not popular on Wii. 300k LTD sounds a great goal IMHO in Japan.

It's in line with the Musou debuts elsewhere...

• Shin Sangoku Musou (PSP) 286,274
• Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Special (360) 10,957
• Gundam Musou (PS3) 317,580 (1,000,000 expected btw)

 

...honestly, I don't think it'd have done much better on PS3.  It's only about 100k behind SSM6, which is the closest the two series have ever been. :/