Xenoblade ranks #7 in UK multiplat charts, #3 in individual platform, #2 for Wii (GFK Chart-Track)

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Soriku said:

Torillian said:

Soriku said:

Torillian said:
So if that follows for the rest of Europe it'll have a first week of between 30-50kish, which is pretty good for a game like this, hopefully it'll eventually reach or beat its sales in Japan (150k)

If France really was entirely sold out like reported, it could be even higher than that since they got 38k copies alone.

Unless France got a disproportiante shipment to their usual fraction of EU sales I can't see how that 38k number could be accurate and Xenoblade not beat out Ocarina of Time 3DS and Zumba in the UK.  Just doesn't seem to match up with a comparable UK shipment of 50-60k.

Well the 38k number was from http://www.gamekyo.com/groupnews_article19731.html%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DLQD%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divnsfd">here:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://gamekyo.com/groupnews_article19731.html&ei=BoBSTsOEKYqtgQeW-9iCBw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.gamekyo.com/groupnews_article19731.html%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DLQD%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divnsfd

I heard France is more into JP stuff than other EU countries so maybe it's not very far fetched.

Since the late 70ies, with joint projects (ex but 80ies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31) and full on in the 80ies/90ies with Captain Tsubatsa, goldorak, macross, captain flame, Cobra, DB, DBZ, saint seyia, wingman, ranma, lamu, sailormoon... and a ton of other animes, the french youth that is now of age to earn and spend has been bathed in a pot of japanese potion (in the 90ies, the youth show that had the anime aired for about 30 hours a week with over 50% of the active audience). Add to this a fondness of the french for comic in book format and you understand how mangas have boomed in the 90ies up to now.

Just as recently as july, iirc, there were 2.5M visitors to the Japan expo (joint with comicon but holding 3/4 of the floorspace)... where they had 4 booths showing Xenoblade, 1 Last story (and apparently a showing of pandora too).... And we've had a good amount of anime related games in the past (even VGC cannot deny the french particularity http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/game/33881/saint-seiya-ougon-densetsu/ ). Now for xeno... I guess the french like their JRPGs =) we had a heavy import business in the SNES days.... with RPGs being prime merchandise. Oh and that whole 80ies, 90ies generation is now 20-30, working and with plenty of $$ to spend in niche games that carter to their second culture.