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Forums - Nintendo - The Last Story--Its performance and its future

dark_gh0st_b0y on 12 February 2011

it's almost impossible that Xenoblade and The Last Story won't reach the US, maybe they have no plans for Europe, but US could show these games some love

but on the other hand, Disaster: Days of Crysis could do it's best in the US, but was released everywhere except the US



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Yakuzaice on 12 February 2011
Conegamer said:
Yakuzaice said:
Conegamer said:

NP

Follows flowchart

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OH SNAP!

 

I still expect that LT, but I believe that was in the West. So 700k in the west and 300k in Japan makes, 1 million! 

 

Conegamer said:

I hope this is trolling. Because pre-orders were nearly 150k...

Using predictions from my similar thrwad, I reckon

140k FW

700k LT (JP)

 

If it comes to west, 1.5mil LT

: P

 

 

 

 

(also 300k in Japan is very optimistic)

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OH SNAP!

Well, I was young and nieve then. We didn't realise the sort of drop-off that we'd see, and with a new IP it's always difficult to judge...

300k is optimistic, but I see it having legs. And 400-300k for the West sounds pretty reasonable IMO

I'd like to know if Xenoblade had a "bump" at launch week, but it's harder to see the sales now :/

The last four weeks for Xenoblade were

Week 32: 450
Week 33: 380
Week 34: 360 (The Last Story launch week)
Week 35: 300



RageBot on 12 February 2011
z101 said:
RageBot said:

JRPGs today, no matter the console, have shitty stories compared to what was during the PS1 days, most pepole who care about stories in this genre consider it a fact.

Fragile Dreams (for Wii) had an intellectual and great story (and side stories). Way better than FF & Co. ever had.

Hmm... was it released in EU?



Bet with Dr.A.Peter.Nintendo that Super Mario Galaxy 2 won't sell 15 million copies up to six months after it's release, the winner will get Avatar control for a week and signature control for a month.

Mr Khan on 12 February 2011
RageBot said:
z101 said:
RageBot said:

JRPGs today, no matter the console, have shitty stories compared to what was during the PS1 days, most pepole who care about stories in this genre consider it a fact.

Fragile Dreams (for Wii) had an intellectual and great story (and side stories). Way better than FF & Co. ever had.

Hmm... was it released in EU?

I believe so. I want to say by Rising Star



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

A203D on 12 February 2011
Mr Khan said:
RageBot said:
z101 said:
RageBot said:

JRPGs today, no matter the console, have shitty stories compared to what was during the PS1 days, most pepole who care about stories in this genre consider it a fact.

Fragile Dreams (for Wii) had an intellectual and great story (and side stories). Way better than FF & Co. ever had.

Hmm... was it released in EU?

I believe so. I want to say by Rising Star

I thought Valkyria Chronicles, Dragon Quest 8 and FF12 had good stories, even though slightly predictable - still good. however i would agree that these days JRPGs tend to have poor stories, not really sure why??

but i'm willing to bet TLS has an excellent story, considering Sakaguchi hired a professional writer (novelist i think) for the story of Lost Odyssey, so i'm guessing he used the same philiosophy here. to go with something writen by an expert in the field of literature.



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TT Makaveli on 12 February 2011

Sakaguchi...next Station = Sony!

he now did games for 360 and Wii this gen...he should try it i think...oh and if i remember the last game he was heavy involved with on the Playstation was Final Fantasy IX o.O 

his and mine favorite FF ...



NeoStar9 on 12 February 2011
TT Makaveli said:

Sakaguchi...next Station = Sony!

he now did games for 360 and Wii this gen...he should try it i think...oh and if i remember the last game he was heavy involved with on the Playstation was Final Fantasy IX o.O

his and mine favorite FF ...


As someone has already said he doesn't want to work on a Sony system again.

 

Anyway after some thought I think we're all jumping the gun. Let's look at things in a few months instead of judging something off of a few weeks of being on the market. Not all games sell big numbers over night. Especially games on the Wii this generation. I say 5 or 6 months is a good waiting period and then we should check out numbers and see how they've grown.



LordTheNightKnight on 12 February 2011
NeoStar9 said:
TT Makaveli said:

Sakaguchi...next Station = Sony!

he now did games for 360 and Wii this gen...he should try it i think...oh and if i remember the last game he was heavy involved with on the Playstation was Final Fantasy IX o.O

his and mine favorite FF ...


As someone has already said he doesn't want to work on a Sony system again.

 

Anyway after some thought I think we're all jumping the gun. Let's look at things in a few months instead of judging something off of a few weeks of being on the market. Not all games sell big numbers over night. Especially games on the Wii this generation. I say 5 or 6 months is a good waiting period and then we should check out numbers and see how they've grown.


Some games have legs, some don't, and some have sort of legs. We really should wait and see on this.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

Torillian on 12 February 2011
LordTheNightKnight said:
NeoStar9 said:

 

 

Anyway after some thought I think we're all jumping the gun. Let's look at things in a few months instead of judging something off of a few weeks of being on the market. Not all games sell big numbers over night. Especially games on the Wii this generation. I say 5 or 6 months is a good waiting period and then we should check out numbers and see how they've grown.


Some games have legs, some don't, and some have sort of legs. We really should wait and see on this.

Sure that's possible it could see some random legs but JRPGs in general have followed a general pattern and TLS shows no signs of going outside that pattern from what we've seen so I think any hopes for legs are just meager hopes for something with little to no precedent for games in this situation. 



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LordTheNightKnight on 12 February 2011
Torillian said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
NeoStar9 said:
 

 

 

Anyway after some thought I think we're all jumping the gun. Let's look at things in a few months instead of judging something off of a few weeks of being on the market. Not all games sell big numbers over night. Especially games on the Wii this generation. I say 5 or 6 months is a good waiting period and then we should check out numbers and see how they've grown.


Some games have legs, some don't, and some have sort of legs. We really should wait and see on this.

Sure that's possible it could see some random legs but JRPGs in general have followed a general pattern and TLS shows no signs of going outside that pattern from what we've seen so I think any hopes for legs are just meager hopes for something with little to no precedent for games in this situation. 


I know it's not very likely to have strong legs. The issue is if it even has minor legs. Plus there issue of selling it to the west.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs