Nah, with vgchartz tendency to overtrack software numbers in america, the game's prolly sitting somewhere between 600k-650k sold through and some sub 1 million shipments. Still, those are great numbers... jrpgs are tanking on anything that isn't portable.

 Are you an analyst of the gaming industry or something?

Question goes to StarCraft. Will there be a Lost Odyssey 2? When would it appear? Say two or three years time?

I think he is estimating how well the JRPGs will sell on the 360.  SO4 could do a million copies since SO3 managed to sell 1.3 million WW LTD 

I don't use attach rates when making predictions.

I'm assuming that FF13 will be released in mid 2009 earliest, but most likely for christmas.

Lost Odyssey will reach 1 million - see arguments in thread.

Blue Dragon and LO both are new IPs, both have less than 80% on GR and both lost nearly all hype when they finally were released in the west. Despite that they sold 500,000 and 750,000 respectively.

Tales of Vesperia is

• a known franchise
• will probably be a better game than Blue Dragon and get better reviews
• will launch to a 20 million userbase instead of 11 million that Blue Dragon had
• will have a simultanous WW release, and thus hype cannot die off like it did for BD

Plus I love the looks of the bundle.

So it should expand the 500,000 copies for BD to rufly 750,000.

The same type of arguments apply to Star Ocean 4, Infinite Undiscovery and Last Remnant of course.

I really love the simultaneous release ww.

Pertty

Yes, but that was 4 years ago. We now live in a day and age that the internet is far more prevelant, and internet fanboys, and reviewers get copies of the JRPGs at the same time (or within a day) of where it's released. In Blue Dragon's case (far moreso than Lost Odyssey), hype was abated, and killed by the time it launched 8 months after Japan, and reception was abysmal (whereas when it launched in Japan, things were at a boiling point).

So if a game really does end up being reviewed poorly, like Blue Dragon...There were WEEKS in between reviewers panning Blue Dragon, and it's release in the states...Which killed enthusiasm for the game.

But when you have games that are a bit closer (such as LO)...Less time for hype to die down, and more interest. And when it's a genre thats as niche as JRPGs...Timing is key.

Just to review:

Enchanted Arms: Jan 06 Release in Japan. August (or September?) US Launch. Bad game...Everyone knew it...Poor sales.

Blue Dragon: December 06 Release in Japan. August 07 release in US. Great game...Bad publicity, poor sales.

Eternal Sonata: June 07 Release in Japan. September 07 release in US. Good game...Hype died down by time it had US launch (and word got back that the story was poor, and too much linearity), mediocre sales.

Lost Odyssey: December 07 Release in Japan. February launch in US. Best sales yet.

Guess which one had the shortest to-east debut? Which one had the longest? Ultimately, global releases are helping games sell more...One only needs to look at what MGS4 is doing to see that it helps oh-so much, because good games tend to have their hype curbed less, and bad games are less of a well-known unless it takes forever to come across...Then everyone knows it sucks.