Famitsu 2007-06-18/ 2007-06-24

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Diomedes1976 said:
I find hard to believe that for example Call of Duty 3 did some 15K last week on the PS3 in its first week but being a 7 month old game already released on other systems and being a FPS that the japanese doesnt like too much ... and Folklore wich is a exclusive game of good quality and of one of the genres the japanese like most as the RPG and monster-capturing cant do its first week more than just 1K more ......

This must have some explanation ,maybe the stores effectively only purchased some 20K units of Folklore for its first week .

This is precisely what happened. All these tales of pre-orders are from the retailers. There were pre-orders of 20k for FolksSoul, so you shouldn't expect more sales than that. 15k isn't bad, that means they sold 75% of stock, and probably sold out in a number of stores

The problem was never the game. It's the retailers orders that doomed this game from the gate.

Edit: Thanks for the numbers, y-koron. Always a pleasure

360 around 5k? Nice, I thought it would drop to about 3k, especially since TB sold less than 10k in its second week.