http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/5279.html

doesn't that fit the bill exactly to what you meant?  Few years ago it had a surge and they mentioned it.  

And yeah they moved the series to PSP, but that doesn't necessitate that the game sold poorly.  Series get moved to different platforms for all kinds of reasons.

My first PS3 game, I bought it even before I even bought the console.
Extremely well deserved.

that was tens of thousands in a month, and since then it has been 2 years.  I think you're really underestimating how long a game can sell little bits.  You don't think that after selling tens of thousands in a month it shot down to nothing do you?  The only evidence I've seen to the contrary is that Sega hasn't mentioned it which is neither here nor there since I haven't seen any mention of them for old games in the financial reports I've read through, and that supposed leak from NPD which was proven wrong on a similar title before when Atlus put out shipment numbers for Demon's Souls.  So for now I'll just go with VGC's numbers until I see some actual credible reason not to.  

I'm so happy, I'm crying!

I'm surprised Carl2291 didn't make this thread.

That seems again like an assumption, they mentioned that jump in sales to advertise the decreased price and the anime.  Just because they mention a month where they had 10s of thousands of sales doesn't mean they're going to mention a perioud of 2 years where they got 150-200,000 over a much longer time period, that can be achieved in 2 years without ever selling 10,000 in another month.  

You're making assumptions of what Sega definitely would tell people if it happened, if that's the only evidence along with your gut feeling then I really see no reason to go with that over actual sales data regardless of it's track record.  I'd go with Brett a thousand times before I went with what someone "feels" something sold.

NPD leak is that guy from neogaf Jarred would always bring up who had the VC numbers from NPD supposedly.  

Really, we're both just going off a lack of evidence to believe whatever side of the argument we want to believe.

When do RPG's have a huge second push with a "best of" release, get listed constantly in top ten's for their console, and get an anime?  Valkyria Chronicles doing something most RPG's don't doesn't shock me in the slightest.

33k isn't a leak, that's the sales they specifically released.  No I'm talking about a guy who said he could leak VC's totals as well as other games after years to see how they ended up doing in total and not just their first month.  Jarred would often quote his leaks as proof that Demon's Souls and VC did not do nearly as well as VGC claimed.  Was proven wrong for Demon's Souls so I do not take it as evidence for VC.

Congrats sega. Too bad another VC game will ever break a million. Sega will make sure of that. :P

The "best" release I'll give you but you can't really think that the anime only being in Japan stopped anyone that was likely to buy the game?  Hell if that were true I wouldn't have seen nearly as much anime as I have.  The "Top Ten" thing was about quality not sales, just evidence that assuming Valkyria will follow the same pattern as most other rpg's is unfounded.

YOu can call it reaching all you want, but without actual evidence I can only think of you as a "hater".

Awesome sales for arguably the best game on the PS3. Quality & word-of-mouth really helped this game.

Same for Demon's Souls.