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NJ5 on 01 August 2008

@11ht11: Awesome, I had never seen that ASCII facepalm.



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trestres on 01 August 2008
outlawauron said:
11ht11 said:
CrazzyMan said:
Fatal Frame Wii - 21k (60%)
BOMB, Siren REMAKE sold same on PS3 with smaller userbase(and not counted online sales). =)

 

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do you realize that FF3 sold 40,000 ists first week, with the ps2's huge userbase

And you could spin it this way too. The new SC4 will outsell SC3 by a large margin regardless of a userbase roughly 10x the size.

 

 

And that's why userbase isn't too important when talking about a series. Fans will buy the game.

So the game didn't bomb. Sold exactly what it had to sell considering past games.



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mrstickball on 01 August 2008

Lets not argue: everything did well.

Phantasy Star Portable OUTSOLD THE PS2 AND X360 VERSIONS COMBINED in ONE DAY! Huge! Awesome! Maybe this will force Sega to revisit the real series and make my 15-years-waiting PSV dream come true!

Soul Calibur isn't a huge franchise - no PS2 Inteneration reached 200k LTD sales, and SC1 on DC sold 170k first week, and 288k LTD. SCIV is at 90,000 after Day 1, and should reach around 120,000-150,000 before the week is out, assuring that SCIV is the bigges-selling SC in Japan.

And FFIV was never big - yet it should sell 30-35k first week. Not uber, but considering what retailers bought, it's a good number.

Now I just wonder how the X360 will do concerning HW numbers.



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sc94597 on 01 August 2008

Seriously how about you guys who are saying it Flopped on the wii, go check out the Numbers of previous games on the ps2.



outlawauron on 01 August 2008
mrstickball said:
Lets not argue: everything did well.

Phantasy Star Portable OUTSOLD THE PS2 AND X360 VERSIONS COMBINED in ONE DAY! Huge! Awesome! Maybe this will force Sega to revisit the real series and make my 15-years-waiting PSV dream come true!

Soul Calibur isn't a huge franchise - no PS2 Inteneration reached 200k LTD sales, and SC1 on DC sold 170k first week, and 288k LTD. SCIV is at 90,000 after Day 1, and should reach around 120,000-150,000 before the week is out, assuring that SCIV is the bigges-selling SC in Japan.

And FFIV was never big - yet it should sell 30-35k first week. Not uber, but considering what retailers bought, it's a good number.

Now I just wonder how the X360 will do concerning HW numbers.

I agree. The 360 has a strong possibility to outsell the PS3 this week. The only question is, will the 360 outsell the PS3 two weeks in a row?

 



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Riachu on 01 August 2008
mrstickball said:
Lets not argue: everything did well.

Phantasy Star Portable OUTSOLD THE PS2 AND X360 VERSIONS COMBINED in ONE DAY! Huge! Awesome! Maybe this will force Sega to revisit the real series and make my 15-years-waiting PSV dream come true!

Soul Calibur isn't a huge franchise - no PS2 Inteneration reached 200k LTD sales, and SC1 on DC sold 170k first week, and 288k LTD. SCIV is at 90,000 after Day 1, and should reach around 120,000-150,000 before the week is out, assuring that SCIV is the bigges-selling SC in Japan.

And FFIV was never big - yet it should sell 30-35k first week. Not uber, but considering what retailers bought, it's a good number.

Now I just wonder how the X360 will do concerning HW numbers.

It also helps that Phantasy Star Portable has many similarities to Monster Hunter(a series that everyone knows, has been a huge hit in Japan)

 



 

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DMeisterJ on 01 August 2008
outlawauron said:
mrstickball said:
Lets not argue: everything did well.

Phantasy Star Portable OUTSOLD THE PS2 AND X360 VERSIONS COMBINED in ONE DAY! Huge! Awesome! Maybe this will force Sega to revisit the real series and make my 15-years-waiting PSV dream come true!

Soul Calibur isn't a huge franchise - no PS2 Inteneration reached 200k LTD sales, and SC1 on DC sold 170k first week, and 288k LTD. SCIV is at 90,000 after Day 1, and should reach around 120,000-150,000 before the week is out, assuring that SCIV is the bigges-selling SC in Japan.

And FFIV was never big - yet it should sell 30-35k first week. Not uber, but considering what retailers bought, it's a good number.

Now I just wonder how the X360 will do concerning HW numbers.

I agree. The 360 has a strong possibility to outsell the PS3 this week. The only question is, will the 360 outsell the PS3 two weeks in a row?

 

Really?

I mean, would the boost to the PS3 be bigger than the PS3 boost?

Who knows.



CrazzyMan on 01 August 2008

Yeah, and here is where HYPE for Fatal Frame 4 end.
It was HYPED on this forum like a BIG game, and yet 30k is normal for you, Pathetic.



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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

Riachu on 01 August 2008
CrazzyMan said:
Yeah, and here is where HYPE for Fatal Frame 4 end.
It was HYPED on this forum like a BIG game, and yet 30k is normal for you, Pathetic.

Yes, VGChartz was giving FF4 a lot of hype yet only the people in Japan who were hyping the game was series fans

 



 

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NJ5 on 01 August 2008
CrazzyMan said:
Yeah, and here is where HYPE for Fatal Frame 4 end.
It was HYPED on this forum like a BIG game, and yet 30k is normal for you, Pathetic.


It was hyped because people are looking forward to play the game, not because it's supposed to be a huge seller (especially in Japan).

 



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