How much Tales of Vesperia will sell in Japan?

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Riachu on 29 July 2008

Picko said:

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More than anything, I think that some, if not many, Japanese RPG companies realized early on in the generation (before the Wii did what it did), that the X360 would be the system of choice to develop on if you wanted it to be affordable, and have a very good Western audience.

Didn't know Japanese companies were interested in developing their RPGs for the Western audience

So it didn't occur to you that Japanese companies would be interested in making games for a market that is far larger than their domestic market? You clearly didn't give the issue a whole lot of thought.

I knew they were interested. It's just that JRPGs are mainly made with Japanese gamers in mind.

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ookaze on 29 July 2008

Picko said:

So it didn't occur to you that Japanese companies would be interested in making games for a market that is far larger than their domestic market? You clearly didn't give the issue a whole lot of thought.

Seems like they're not interested. Notice all the JRPG that don't come out of Japan, special editions that don't come out of Japan, or worldwide JRPG releases on a console which are ported to another console but only for Japan (like Eternal Sonata).

Japan is still the main market for JRPG, which make sense.

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BluJay on 29 July 2008

I think first week sales will be a little over 90,000.

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thibje on 30 July 2008

Tales of Vesperia (Xbox 360, Bandai Namco): 9 / 9 / 9 / 8 - (35/40)

Review from the Weekly Famitsu Magazine.

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Rock_on_2008 on 30 July 2008

50 - 70k in week one Japan. 100k LTD in Japan for this game.

I assume one tenth of Japanese X360 owners will buy this game in week one.

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Riachu on 30 July 2008

thibje said:
Tales of Vesperia (Xbox 360, Bandai Namco): 9 / 9 / 9 / 8 - (35/40)

Review from the Weekly Famitsu Magazine.

Wonder how much Western reviewers will like ToV cause 1up seem to really like it so far according to one of their recent podcasts

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CrazzyMan on 08 August 2008

70k first day, it have potential to outdo first week of Blue Dragon.
Not bad. =)

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2009.04.30 - PS3 will OUTSELL x360 atleast by the middle of 2010. Japan+Europe > NA.

Gran Turismo 3 - 1,06 mln. in 3 weeks with around 4 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Gran Turismo 4 - 1,16 mln. with 18 mln. PS2 on the launch.

Final Fantasy X - around 2 mln. with 5 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Final Fantasy X-2 - 2.4 mln. with 12 mln. PS2 on the launch.

1.8 mln. PS3 today(2008.01.17) in Japan. Now(2009.04.30) 3.16 mln. PS3 were sold in Japan.
PS3 will reach 4 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 25k.

PS3 may reach 5 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 50k.
PS2 2001 vs PS3 2008 sales numbers =) + New games released in Japan by 2009 that passed 100k so far