Japan Sales -Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki week 14 2015 (March 30 - April 5, 2015)

[Materia-Blade]

Hiku said:

Materia-Blade said:

And as it was already said, Xenoblade chronicles didn't sell poorly and Xeno X has everything to easily outsell the first game.

What points towards XCX easily outselling the original Xenoblade?
Wii had 10.5 million units sold in Japan at the time of Xenoblade Chronicle's release, and Wii U only has 2.2m sold in Japan now in comparison.
That's around 5 times the difference in install base. So what is your reasoning behind XCX easily outselling the original?

As for Xenoblade Chronicles X's impact on the sales of the console, the original Xenoblade sold 82,952 copies at launch, and went on to sell around 180,00 lifetime in Japan. Taking the big install base differnce into consideration, and the fact that WiiU is already selling rather poorly, I'm not expecting any miracles here. It'll certainly spark some interest, but this is just one game. And that's WiiU's main problem.

Actual marketing, awareness of the franchise, XC 3d opening close to the original, XCX being ahead of the original and the 3d version on COMG pre orders, bundle... Installed based isn't that important in this case, just look at XC 3d.