Mistwalker is about to sell 1,000,000 copies

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Soriku said:

I wouldn't call it a "huge" milestone but it is a milestone. Niche games don't sell very well, no matter how good they are. At least they finally broke 1 mil.

Oh, and what's wrong with 500k sales per game? In fact, most devs (especially niche game developers) would be happy with 500k sales. They are not FF nor ever wanted to get FF like sales. Plus FF has been a series going on for over 20 years while Mistwalker and their games are sitll VERY new...

There you go. Thank you, oh most insightful Sorkiu.

 Even though Sakaguchi's games are known worldwide, the games aren't niche either.

The issue, from how I see it, is that Mistwaker is a new studio, putting out new IPs. Go look at any current, major franchise. Very, very few JRPG franchises ever sold gangbusters on title #1. For some, it took #2 or #3 before it sold well. Yes, I know there are a few like Kingdom Hearts that sold gangbusters from day-1, but that (I believe) was a very unique case.

Look at it this way: Lost Odyssey, in a matter of a few months, has outsold a title from the same company that's charted for well over a year. LO will most likely sell 750,000 units before VGC kills off sales numbers, and will podder to 1m.

If true, this is a 50%+ increase versus it's last title. This could help MW out in the long term, as a LO2 or a BD2 might wind up doubling previous itenerations: Final Fantasy VII didn't sell 10m-ish copies because it was Final Fantasy 1, but because it had built up a very strong, dedicated fanbase, and then did something fantastic with the 7th game in the series, breaking their old records.

 Yet every anti-mistwaker person forgets to mention that they are comparing titles that the given company had 10-20 other titles out before they "struck it big" with uber-sellers. Mistwaker has 3 titles out: ASH, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey. 3 titles, folks. When they hit the #10 area, lets talk again, and see if Mistwaker is still treading water, or not. Ok?