| Torillian said: But what about Disgaea 2? Your statement is supposed to be talking about the series as a whole. So here's the best I can figure for Disgaea 2 sales. According to a statement from NIS they have sold 1.6m Disgaea titles total. Taking out all the sales we have from Disgaeas other than 1 and 2 that leaves us with 770,000. Taking out the Japanese sold for Disgaea 2 and if we're nice and give you 250k for Disgaea NA sales that leaves us with 370,000 to be split between Disgaea 2's NA release and Disgaea 1's Japan release. Once we're there we can either assume Disgaea 1 sold the same in Japan as Disgaea 2's 150,000 leaving Disgaea 2 with 220,000 NA sales but in my mind the more reasonable conclusion would be that the original Disgaea sold more in Japan and it only takes 200,000 sales of Disgaea 1 in Japan before Disgaea 2 is dipping below Disgaea 3's NA sales. This was all done also assuming that the first two games sold absolutely nothing in EU, which may or may not be reasonable and not taking into account that NIS probably means shipped, but with a tiny game like Disgaea I doubt there are a ton of them sitting on store shelves. |
Disgaea 1-2 did sell basically nothing in Europe (where Koei handled them). Disgaea 1's impressive US sales are actually what led N1 to establish NISA iirc (Atlus USA handled the first game here).
I wouldn't be surprised if D2 and D3 sold within the same ballpark though, but mixing trackers and then doing some fuzzy math with shipment data to try and arrive at a comparison is a slippery slope at best. But D1 was the real breakout... this is all pretty tangental though, as it really has little bearing on how a PS3 Tales might do, except arguably to draw a negative conclusion based on past performance (Disgaea sold great on PS2, Tales really didn't).
