Double Take: Xenoblade Chronicles X Sales Indicate Market for JRPGs on Nintendo Consoles

[Metallox]

sc94597 said:

Metallox said:
It sold decently in the United States, I'm glad, although it seems like data from the game is weird.

The Volkampf Tyrant is the best way to calculate the game's sales (I'm sorry, VGChartz isn't). 290K people have beaten that boss in the West, and considering that X has maybe sold 220K copies in the States, either the internal data from the game is flawed, many people have beaten the boss while offline or it sold badly in Europe.

Nonetheless, the game is sitting right now at 400-450K units right now worldwide, which is better than nothing.

You can add +1 to that number. I haven't connected my Wii U to the internet since buying and playing the game because it is a hassle as I use my mobile phone to tether internet to my devices and Nintendo devices rarely work well when it comes to updates via this method. Heck I didn't even download the packs. Even if 5% of people are like me that would add 15k to your 290k number. It is also based on the assumption that it includes both Europe, Others, and NA. There are probably plenty of people who just don't want to update the game since buying it.

I actually talked about this and how the constant disconnections from the servers influence on the final numbers in a later post. If you defeat Volkampf while offline, your victory won't be counted for the register, even if you access to the online services later.

There are many reasons to suppose that the guy is lacking at best 50K victories from other users.