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Forums - Microsoft - Looks like Tales of Vesperia has had a good debut in Japan...

mrstickball on 06 August 2008
erikers said:
I love that they always get in huge lines for any big game that comes out. I wonder if there's a person who waits a few hours, walks into the store and picks the game up and laughs at everybody who waited.

The game could always sell out, or a walk-in might not find a X360 to buy...Who knows.

But at any rate, a person couldn't laugh at anyone by walking into the store and buying it after a few hours - those that waited will have already been home playing the game.

 



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TheSource on 06 August 2008

I'm expecting Tales of Vesperia to debut at 100k or so on 360. 360 sales should be north of 10k...though I can't really see it higher than 30k this week. Should be interesting.



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erikers on 06 August 2008
mrstickball said:
erikers said:
I love that they always get in huge lines for any big game that comes out. I wonder if there's a person who waits a few hours, walks into the store and picks the game up and laughs at everybody who waited.

The game could always sell out, or a walk-in might not find a X360 to buy...Who knows.

But at any rate, a person couldn't laugh at anyone by walking into the store and buying it after a few hours - those that waited will have already been home playing the game.

 

What if he walked by the line earlier though?  Then he went and got some breakfast, ran a few errands then came back and got the game.  Surely he could perform a hearty laugh then.

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FinalEvangelion on 06 August 2008
TheSource said:

I'm expecting Tales of Vesperia to debut at 100k or so on 360. 360 sales should be north of 10k...though I can't really see it higher than 30k this week. Should be interesting.

 

So it may beat Blue Dragon's first week?  That would be good news for MS/BN.



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matt247 on 06 August 2008

That's interesting, in America our lines are single-filed.



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mrstickball on 06 August 2008
FinalEvangelion said:
TheSource said:

I'm expecting Tales of Vesperia to debut at 100k or so on 360. 360 sales should be north of 10k...though I can't really see it higher than 30k this week. Should be interesting.

 

So it may beat Blue Dragon's first week? That would be good news for MS/BN.

Blue Dragon, with bundles, sold around 86,000 for the entire week (first day was 43k w/o bundles)...I think ToV has a good shot (75%) at doing it.

Hardware sales are another story...The 360 has been selling quite well the past few weeks, and it'd be understandable that some people have already bought 360's for ToV. Like TheSource, I expect above 10,000 h/w units for the week. Most likely in the 15,000-18,000 area.

 



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Riachu on 06 August 2008
matt247 said:
That's interesting, in America our lines are single-filed.

That's probably a waiting area and not an actual line

 



 

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Godot on 06 August 2008

Tales of Vesperia will be a great game. I understand why people are waiting in line to get it. I'm more patient than that (and I work during the day) but I understand.



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Riachu on 06 August 2008
Godot said:
Tales of Vesperia will be a great game. I understand why people are waiting in line to get it. I'm more patient than that (and I work during the day) but I understand.

We should see how well the Japanese gamers receive ToV before we determine whether it is a great game or not.  Famitsu aren't very reliable anymore since they admitted to giving scores based on hype

 



 

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SHMUPGurus on 06 August 2008
Riachu said:
Godot said:
Tales of Vesperia will be a great game. I understand why people are waiting in line to get it. I'm more patient than that (and I work during the day) but I understand.

We should see how well the Japanese gamers receive ToV before we determine whether it is a great game or not.  Famitsu aren't very reliable anymore since they admitted to giving scores based on hype

 

Remember though, there was a demo on XBLA.

 



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