rocketpig on 07 May 2007
On a related note, what do all of you think will happen to Japanese 360 sales in the next month and a half? On the 24th, Japan will receive Forza 2. With GT5 still a long ways away and no real competition in the next-gen console racing sim genre available, how will it do? Then, three weeks later, Trusty Bell launches in Japan on June 14th. Alongside Blue Dragon, how will it help the 360 in RPG-centric Japan?
I think a best-case scenario is MS averaging weekly sales of around 15,000 360s a week until early July. That would mean that in a month and a half, they would move around 90,000 units, an unimpressive number overall but a huge step in the right direction for them. That would boost their overall LTD sales by about 25%. I think a more-likely scenario is about 10,000 units a week.
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