You doubt they'll have a big-ish holiday title waiting in the wings?

Well, a price cut will also be a shot in the arm for Wii sales in Japan, thugh if the Yen difference remains the same (i.e. if PS3 cuts prices too) then it may not do quite as much as if Wii can put a bit more daylight between it's price and PS3 price.

2 million was some staff member's wishes, which was clarified at the same event that Koei's internal goal was 1 million

"Game Watch, Famitsu.com, ITmedia D Games, Gpara.com, and DengekiOnline.com covered a press event held by Bandai Namco, Koei, and Sony for Gundam Musou. Bigwigs appearing were Bandai Namco Holdings president Takeo Takasu, Koei co-founder ****o Erikawa, and Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi. Erikawa commented that the title represents for Koei the first collaboration with another company in its 29-year history. She went on to say she wanted the game to sell 2 million copies though Bandai Namco's more modest Shin Unozawa says they're looking to have worldwide sales of 1 million, an achievement that would still make Gundam Musou notable even amongst the best-selling Gundam games. As that implies, Kutaragi is quoted in the Dengeki article as saying "Because Gundam is a work that has fans worldwide, I want to release it overseas quickly."

http://s13.zetaboards.com/koeiwarriors/topic/248374/7/

"Bandai Namco's Shin Unozawa stated the goal for Gundam Musou was to sell 1 million copies worldwide."

http://sgforums.com/forums/1316/topics/302172

Right, so  you're seriously suggesting that that they either weren't aware of or chose to ignore the Xbox 360 version in their worldwide sales forecast?

Just admit you got called out on your BS. Even Nintendo fans know you're full of it.

Given the Xbox 360 version wasn't even announced at that point, I'd say yes.  It was 1m PS3 only, because at that point Gundam Musou was PS3 only as far as anyone outside Bandai or Koei knew.  It was touted as the first big PS3 exclusive in Japan even, at least after VF5 crashed and burned, and the 360 version wasn't even announced until after the PS3 version had already on shelves in Japan for months.  In fact, the 360 announcement likely was what delayed the western release until that fall (not exactly the speedy localization talked about in your article).

Unless you're seriously suggesting a Bandai rep (it wasn't Koei it seems) was adding in sales for a game that wasn't public yet in their very public projection?  There was also no timeframe given on the figure, meaning we don't know if it would've alinged to their financial calendar (which projections almost always do, especially from Namco Bandai) or if it was a lifetime projection (which is rare, and usually clarified as such, like Iwata's 10m plus figure for NSMB Wii and Wii Fit Plus).  I don't have time now, but later on I'll dig through Namco Bandai's IR docs and see if I can find a better reference.

And a little less with the personal attacks please, I'd hate to see you banned for such behavior.  If you can't get your argument across without resorting to that, you should probably not bother in the first place... all it does is devalue your own position.

Of course you are absolutely right,  my unreserved apologies. I shouldn't post whilst drunk and I feel embarrassed for resorting to personal attacks rather than the argument at hand. I hope you can accept my apology and continue this discussion in a more civilised manner at a later date.

Unfortunately you can't delete the internet (Try telling Sony that), so our misdemeanours remain, but I would hope you can give a bit of good faith that most people aren't always as obnoxious as they may at first seem.

good for the torne bundle

why don't they have a bundle like this in the west

3DS 209,623
PSP 76,246
PS3 25,918
Wii 11,654
DSi LL 8,951
DSi 7,388
Xbox 360 2,353
PS2 1,750
PSP go 1,080
DS Lite 757

another week by MC - PS3 up Wii slightly down

No updates??

This week's MC

From the sound of best seeling console of 2011 being PS3 you can be wrong in 2 points in shunning him...

3DS isn't a console for some but a handheld and he can be talking about WW... so in both cases he could be right

That's quite sad...

Sorry for no update last week