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Barozi on 15 December 2013
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superhippy420 said:
Barozi said:
ah c'mon know everybody is talking about 2m sales for X.

Monster Hunter Tri for Wii barely did that and it has a huge brand name (more so in Japan but still) and sold very well there (1.05m) on a much much much bigger userbase.

Xenoblade did 160k in Japan and did worse in Europe, so please explain how X is supposed to come even close to 2m sales.


Like I said the 1st did 900k and the game was selling for over 100 bucks on ebay before gamestop "magically found copies", and this was towards the very end of the Wii's lifecycle.    Games always sell better early in the lifecycle, and the 9.8 - 10 scores it will most likely get alone will get the gaming community talking, just like it did when Xenoblade came out.  2 m. may be a little high, but I really don't think its that crazy when you consider that it will be on the shelf for 3 - 4 years as well.

There is still a difference of almost 200k between Xenoblade and Monster Hunter Tri in the US, so limited or not, 200k is a huge amount for such a game in one region. If they shipped 200k more there would be no guarantee that all of them sold through.

Now you say that games sell better early in the lifecycle, which I agree with, but games do also better on a higher userbase (recent Mario game being a great example here), so that pretty much evens out.