Chark said:
So it has 3 weeks of pre-order numbers from launch, 2-3k each week, so 6-9k more. Probably around 20k in pre-orders at most. There is a demo coming out this tuesday so hopefully that helps its sales out. Japan pretty much sold its 70k in the first 10 weeks and hasn't contributed much due to low sales in the country, the legs in NA and EU are better and hopefully push the software further along. It is the second highest rated Vita game on Metacritic right now at 87, Rayman Origins being 88. I really wish we had ample access to digital downloads as those could really be the difference in knowing how good these Vita games are selling. Without some good data it is impossible to tell if digital is selling as well as retail, worse or better. *Sigh* In bold, yes that's kind of the nature of this chart, a small variation from the average percentage has wide reaching effects. Hopefully E3 will boost sales and start changing the outcome, but everything will be relying on the holidays. |
What you said, especially about the digital sales, is pretty bang on. But don't expect many more sales over pre-orders, it's not the game that really sells. Heck, here in the UK it's a digital-only release I believe (which is a shame because my memory card isn't big enough to hold it >.<).
And yeah, the chart is pretty darn good, and I reckon it's a bit pessimistic. 5.5mil is a good number.