Torillian said:
Wonder what the staff numbers are like compared to a company like Gust that's perfectly happy with 80k lifetime sales in Japan. Also I don't think it's fair to start talking about the D4 sales like it's a dissapointment because some investors bought stocks based off faulty assumptions. It is doing better than D3 and I highly doubt NIS had the same expectations as those investors, but I guess the only way to know one way or another if this is what NIS needed to sell would be to get one of those powerpoints like Atlus puts out giving their expected and actual sales numbers. |
NIS was in trouble before their stock rebounded, driven primarily off investor excitement over D4. Now that the game has done about half what said investors were expecting, I'm just wondering if we'll see their stock plummet back down?
It would be nice to know D4's expectations from NIS themselves, all I know is that it was expected to sell better than D3 (which sold around 100k total, while NIS had projected 120k). You have to think though, these numbers aren't exactly encouraging, it's only slightly above D3 (itself considered a disappointment), it used entirely redrawn assets, and NIS seemed to be pinning a lot of hopes on the game (especially after the trail of bombs they delivered on PSP last year). If I were a NIS fan, I'd be worried...
