Issun on 07 December 2007
| mrstickball said: Issun - as far as I know/knew, alot of the X360 owners that picked up Blue Dragon at or near launch, sold their systems for lack of other titles. Hopefully, they re-buy and keep the X360 now. With such a tepid start, sales will *probably* be closer to 20-30k hardware. However, I guess the question is what the difference between MC and Famitsu is this week. The historical list of first day sales vs. weekly sales: Halo 3 (45k) - 60k via MGC (I think?) Blue Dragon (43k) - 83k Lost Odyssey (40k) Ace Combat 6 (35k) - 77k via MC numbers, 67k via VGC/Famitsu #s. Assassain's Creed (20k) - 40k via MC numbers, 32k via VGC/Famitsu #s. Winning Eleven (7k) - 12k via MC numbers. I'll add a few more later. But it shows where the historical numbers are. Lately, X360 games (since Halo 3) have had pretty good multipliers. FFXI's expansion had a opening of 4k, and wound up with 12-13k total. Using similar numbers, I would say that LO should do better than AC6. However, that just depends on which chart. Famitsu should say 75k, and MC could say upwards of 85-90k if trends hold true. |
Hardware depends on one factor. If you have Japanese taste and live in Japan, you will start counting the upcoming games. How many great games for X360 that have potential to sell good are left for Japan? Maybe Cry On or Ninja Gaiden 2. That is why I think the hardware will not make 40k like it did when BD hit the market. On the other hand, I predict 200k for Lost Odyssey.
