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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Yay! Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Japan preorders at 150k!

ZenfoldorVGI on 09 June 2008

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Riachu on 09 June 2008
Soriku said:
Riachu said:
Daileon said:
Being a nice niche game on a non-niche genre? Then I guess that the sales build up after the buyers tell their friends how awesome this game is and etc...

Whatever, I don't think that Tales of is a really niche franchise. XD

Tales isn't as niche as Soriku says it is. Tales may not reach FF-level sales numbers but calling Tales niche is like calling Star Ocean niche. Both Tales and SO aren't as niche as some might think. Both ToS and SO3 sold a million copies WW LTD


Well, it's not mainstream either =/ It's kinda in the middle of niche and mainstream. SO sells more than Tales of.

That's because every Tales game other Symphonia wasn't advertised on its American release.  Star Ocean 3 sold well in America because it got decent marketing unlike Tales(other than Symphonia anyway)

 



 

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ClaudeLv250 on 09 June 2008

What if this game outsold MGS4 in Japan? The meltdowns it would cause...

I'll avoid that drama for now. At first I thought this wouldn't do as well as Symphonia, but with the larger install base of the Wii, this may be the stepping stone to make Tales much closer as a mainstream RPG series, especially in America.

And love the disc art.



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Riachu on 09 June 2008
ClaudeLv250 said:
What if this game outsold MGS4 in Japan? The meltdowns it would cause...

I'll avoid that drama for now. At first I thought this wouldn't do as well as Symphonia, but with the larger install base of the Wii, this may be the stepping stone to make Tales much closer as a mainstream RPG series, especially in America.

And love the disc art.
Just like Star Ocean 3 was a stepping stone to make SO closer to a mainstream RPG series.

 



 

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Kenology on 09 June 2008
Soriku said:
Kenology said:
BengaBenga said:
Very good, not only for Wii, but for JRPG lovers as well. Shiren 3 sold pretty good and ToS seems to at least outsell Symphonia (and thereby automatically become the best sold Tales ever).



I was curious to know how Shiren 3 sold. Do you have any figures? We don't seem to have any data on the site.


From the preliminary data:

"Shiren the Wanderer 3, Sega’s dungeon crawler, had a pretty good debut this week selling almost 70,000 units."


 Oh, ok.  I didn't read the preview yet.  I went to the Shiren 3 page, but I was mislead because it was listed as having a 2/28/08 release date.

 

Heading over to the preview now. 



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Daileon on 09 June 2008

The graphics look like VERY better technically, but less stylized than ToS1... Must have for sure.



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Blacksaber on 09 June 2008

Who the is dumb enough to put Raine into the front lines?



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Zucas on 09 June 2008

This is great for ToS 2. Hopefully about a 250k opener in Japan. Normally Tales games have huge dropoffs, but given an RPG on Wii in Japan, maybe not. We'll see. My guess is about 500k-600k for the game in 2008. We'll see though. Definete platinum worldwide.



vanguardian1 on 09 June 2008

I *wish* I could be as optimistic about the sales, but I feel Tos2 will be lucky to break 100k first week. :/



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smbu2000 on 10 June 2008

Well I just finally pre-ordered the game from Amazon.co.jp. Just over 2 weeks left until it's released.

Though, I doubt I'll ever actually play the game myself, haha. :-o




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