Bonafide732 on 09 June 2007
| mrstickball said: Bona - the difference is that Trusty Bell actually has solid, confirmed hype. It's like comparing Dead Rising to Blue Dragon. Both fantastic games, but one had huge ammounts of hype, a bundled system, ect, ect. As stated earlier - if retailers are willing to purchase 70,000 copies of Trusty Bell week 1 + the Trusty Bell X360 bundles, then they're also going to do whatever they can to sell those games and bundles too. A good example to compare would be infact Gundam Mousou, as stated - There were around 170k orders from retailers. Guess what? Retailers pushed the game and it sold out wk. 1. You cannot stress the importants of retailer pre-orders, because that means no matter what, TB is going to sell the 70k - either first week, or first year, as retailers aren't going to just keep the copies instock, and sit on them. Just combed through alot of numbers about Blue Dragon: Blue Dragon's first week shipment was 73,000 units + bundles Trusty Bell's first week shipmenty is 70,000 units + bundles Blue Dragon sold 43,000 copies it's first day, not including bundle sales. It ended up with 88,000 for the week, and 35,000 h/w sales that week. *IF* Trusty Bell sold at the exact same rate, we should expect 83,790 software units sold, including the bundled titles, as well as 33,250 hardware units. This is all speculative though. BD was a Christmas title, and TB is mid summer, which should greatly affect it. However, these give us numbers to go by. So whatever TBs first day is, I'd say a 2x multiplier should be expected. |
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