Will Xenoblade Chronicles X outsell the original?

[johnsobas]

spemanig said:

Torillian said:

That's an odd way to look at it. 

The original sold 150k from June 12th to the end of 2010 (6 and a half months) according to the sales on VGC, while XCX has sold 119,000 since May 2nd until now (6 and a half months).  One can argue that there are holidays still to come for XCX that are counted in the XC data but I haven't seen much to convince me that the holidays in Japan can make up that kind of deficit.  

Apparently it sold at least 139K in it's first 6.5 months, since it sold 20K in May alone digitally.

Now I don't want to assume that it sold more than 10K digitally in the rest of the 5.5 months.

I don't want to, but I'm gonna.

Considering the game sold 90% of it's physical sales to date in the time period it sold 20k digitally it's not as safe a bet as it sounds.  I've also seen pictures of the game in bargain bins more than once on this site, it hasn't exactly had good legs in Japan.