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If they're to do star ocean on xbox360, i'll say yes.



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Absolutely. Unless Microsoft, in 09 disbands it's association with Namco and Mistwalker, it's guarenteed it'll make it to 1m.



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thibje said:
Yes, it will hit 1 million in japan I am thinking golden week '09.

You do know they have to raise their weekly average by at least triple it is now for that. And in order to reach it by your sig they need to quintuple it. (its like me saying Ps3 will reach 5 mil by then)



yeah,in 3 years



Well the last game to have a big effect on 360 sales in japan was Blue Dragon, and this year they have the Tales game and Infinite Undiscovery which could also help and then for 2009 they most likely have Blue Dragon 2. So i think it will hit 1 million in japan..



08' Year End Predictions

Wii: 46 Million
Xbox 360:
26 Million

PS3: 22 Million

Sale Predictions:

Gears Of War 2 - 7 Million
Fable 2 - 3 Million
Left 4 Dead - 1.5 Million
Infinite Undiscovery - 700k
Tales Of Vesperia - 550k
The Last Remnant - 700k
Ninja Gaiden - 800k LTD [?] On its way.
Banjo-Kazooie N&B - 2 Million
Lost Odyssey - 500k LTD [X] surpassed
Too Human - 1.4 Million

 

 

 

 

 

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Well, this year, you do have a decent bit of games that will push the X360 to a few good points:

Ninja Gaiden 2
Infinite Undiscovery
Tales of Vesperia
Cry On

Then you have multi-plat games that should help too:
Resident Evil 5
Last Remnant

And I'm sure that there will be a few Western games to help out here and there (but certainly not much).

The big question is: Can any of the 360 Exclusives provide real, meaningful traction? Blue Dragon was the last "real" game to not only increase X360 sales for a good week, but keep sales rather steady (as BD had a noticible effect into 2007). Since then , many games have increased hardware sales, but never for more than 2 weeks at the most (well Lost Odyssey did see a 2-3 week increase).

So the candidates, to me, are: Tales, and NG2. IU will probably cater to the current userbase in Japan. But Tales is the real wildcard: It's the first "real" RPG on the 360 that is a franchise IP. We've seen that Namco franchises such as Ridge Racer and Ace Combat really boosted X360 sales, but Tales is better than both, as far as I know (for the JP market).

But time will tell..



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^^ damn! japan is getting a landmark year!



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I think it'll happen in about two or three years.



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