| ioi said: 300-350k week one seems likely, 750k total maybe... |
ok in that case my predictions were a little high, but I just looked at the sales of Cube games in Japan. The best third party game was Resident Evil 0, which sold 450k in Japan. This already shows how goog these numbers are, and compared with Nintendo's first party cube games, Swords would rank sixth on the Cube with 750k in Japan, only beaten by Smash Brothers, Mario Party 4, Mario Kart, Zelda and Sunshine. With sales over a million, it would even rank second, because only Smash managed to sell more than a million in Japan alone.
And as another comparison, Crystal Chronicals which is also a Square-Enix spinoff has sold 370k in Japan. Swords could outsell that in it's first week.
I guess those comparisons with Gamecube games are soon not legitimate any more, because the Wii's userbase will be far bigger. But at the moment, it works.
