| KHlover said: Sales ranks mean nothing. Don't you remeber the WiiU's sales rank after the Xbone reveal? :P |
Nothing? No. Everything? No as well.
It's something. What EXACTLY that something is... That's much more difficult to quantify.
That said , I think it's fair to say this alone is better than anyone here expected GE2 to chart, so that by itself is a plus. God Eater 1 is easily the best selling hunting game after the Monster Hunter series, and with how much better 2 already looks than the first, and with how impressively Toukiden performed, probably fair to say it exceeded the vast majority of our expectations, things are pointing right now to GE2 being an incredible success for the Vita.
Will it outsell the first? Hard to say, I think with the PSP version tagging along, there's a decent chance.
I think the more important question, though, is will 2 further shrink the sales gap between GE and Monster Hunter?
If we take a look at the Monster Hunter released in 2010, Monster Hunter Freedom 3, (same year as both GE and GEB), we get 4.86 million in sales. God Eater Burst, on the other hand, pulled 660k (640k if you want to go with vanilla GE, though Burst is both closer to MHF3 in both sales and release date)
4. 86 million - 660k = a 4.2 million sales gap in favor of Monster Hunter. I feel pretty confident both MH's sales will shrink in comparison while GE's grows, albeit by a considerably smaller amount than MH's numbers shrink.
