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.:Dark Prince:. on 23 May 2008
Yojimbo said:
165k preorders 3 weeks before the game releases is good. It is not like 90% of the people who buys the game preorders it.

This.



 

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Louie on 23 May 2008

When we predict sales of a game we have to consider the size of the userbase the game is on.

All Metal Gear Solid games so far sold somewhere between 500k to 1 million units in Japan as far as I know. But the current situation is that all core games on the PS3 have seen weaker sales than their predecessors on PSX and PS2.

This causes retailers to be careful when they pre-order games. The Japanese PS3 install base is just not big enough to take any risks for them. If the game sells out during the first week they will order more copies, though.

The same goes for America: Pre-orders might be lower than some people thought but honestly, what did you guys expect? 1 million first week on a 5 million install base?

Metal Gear Solid was always a game that sold best in Europe, which is where we should expect it to sell best again this time.

Edit: I think we are talking about retail pre-Orders here, aren´t we? TheSource always talks about retail pre-orders  in his articles.  



colonelstubbs on 23 May 2008
Louie said:

When we predict sales of a game we have to consider the size of the userbase the game is on.

All Metal Gear Solid games so far sold somewhere between 500k to 1 million units in Japan as far as I know. But the current situation is that all core games on the PS3 have seen weaker sales than their predecessors on PSX and PS2.

This causes retailers to be careful when they pre-order games. The Japanese PS3 install base is just not big enough to take any risks for them. If the game sells out during the first week they will order more copies, though.

The same goes for America: Pre-orders might be lower than some people thought but honestly, what did you guys expect? 1 million first week on a 5 million install base?

Metal Gear Solid was always a game that sold best in Europe, which is where we should expect it to sell best again this time.

Edit: I think we are talking about retail pre-Orders here, aren´t we? TheSource always talks about retail pre-orders  in his articles.  


 

It doesnt matter if the userbase is less than 4 million. it doesnt matter if people havent bought previous installments. Ths is know as THE game to have for the PS3, and a LOT of people will buy it. Its the first big PS3 exclusive that everybody wants, whether they have a wii or xbox. It will sell big amounts. Dont discount 5 million WW lifetime

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disolitude on 23 May 2008

YAY. I'm a statistic...



darthdevidem01 on 23 May 2008

Ok thanks for the optimism everyone...

I thought they were consumer pre-orders as thats what VG Chartz tracks..

@Louie

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libellule on 23 May 2008

darthdevidem01,

PLZ before making us crying (^^) can u give us some others datas about pre-order ???

Because u are comparing DMC4sales with MGS4 pre-orders and, obviously, I m not sure it is a good thing to do.

so, have u any others datas about pre-orders for another game (like GTA4 ?) that we can compare to MGS4 pre-orders datas ?



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shanbcn on 23 May 2008

So far we only have information about Japan MGS4 bundles which amounts between 80.000-100000 and Spain 12.000. And there was also report of France MGS4 the game pre-orders mounting over 200.000. Anyway the best bundle to get is that of USA and we don't know yet how many Sony have made.



darthdevidem01 on 23 May 2008

@libellule

as i said my source itself the "The source's" article about May 08.....& he doesn't have any other pre orders

but I'd say others pre-orders should be 20% greater than NA ones//



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Viper1 on 23 May 2008
Louie said:

Edit: I think we are talking about retail pre-Orders here, aren´t we? TheSource always talks about retail pre-orders  in his articles.  


 That's what I was wondering as well.  I'm not familiar with consumer level pre-order figures ever coming in from Japan, only retail pre-orders.   And for the context of the article it would make sense to use retail pre-orders from all markets.



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libellule on 23 May 2008
colonelstubbs said:
Louie said:

When we predict sales of a game we have to consider the size of the userbase the game is on.

All Metal Gear Solid games so far sold somewhere between 500k to 1 million units in Japan as far as I know. But the current situation is that all core games on the PS3 have seen weaker sales than their predecessors on PSX and PS2.

This causes retailers to be careful when they pre-order games. The Japanese PS3 install base is just not big enough to take any risks for them. If the game sells out during the first week they will order more copies, though.

The same goes for America: Pre-orders might be lower than some people thought but honestly, what did you guys expect? 1 million first week on a 5 million install base?

Metal Gear Solid was always a game that sold best in Europe, which is where we should expect it to sell best again this time.

Edit: I think we are talking about retail pre-Orders here, aren´t we? TheSource always talks about retail pre-orders  in his articles.  


 

It doesnt matter if the userbase is less than 4 million. it doesnt matter if people havent bought previous installments. Ths is know as THE game to have for the PS3, and a LOT of people will buy it. Its the first big PS3 exclusive that everybody wants, whether they have a wii or xbox. It will sell big amounts. Dont discount 5 million WW lifetime

==> it is right that looking at past sales is never the best way to predict the present sales.

What we have RIGHT NOW (this gen on PS3) is MGS4 a game that has been hyped a lot, that is exclusive (that explains the hype) and that is coming in a very good period of the PS3 (nobody is anymore claiming the PS3 line-up is crappy).

Nobody is expecting amazing sales for MGS4

But I guess 1M/1st week WW is really possible. Reaching 2M will be very hard ...

I expect legs to be quite small



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