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Forums - Nintendo - Can Tales of Symphonia: DotNW sell over 300k in Japan by next year?

CrazzyMan on 04 September 2008

The game is still overtracked by 15-30k.

First week sales:
Famitsu - about 151k
Media Create - 137k
Average between them is - 144k

VG for some reasons have sales at 164k.



Every 5 seconds on earth one child dies from hunger...

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

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Riachu on 04 September 2008
jonager said:
this game really bombed after 1st week, ive never played a tales game,soriku can u recomend me some?wich is the best one?

He thinks Tales of Symphonia is the best(he never played either Abyss or Vesperia).  He also likes Destiny and Eternia.

 



 

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jonager on 04 September 2008

r these games like ffs i love that series



Riachu on 04 September 2008
jonager said:
r these games like ffs i love that series

 

Not really.  Other than being JRPGs that have many differences(anime art style, real time combat)



 

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jonager on 04 September 2008

nice i might pick the ones on ps2



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c0rd on 04 September 2008
DMeisterJ said:
The game hasn't done that well...

300k is a stretch.

Also, with sales as low as they are, it becomes more of a guesstimate than actual sales. I'm sure it's pretty hard to find data on a game selling 4k units a week in a country with millions of people. I'm not saying the numbers are wrong, but when numbers are that low, take it with a grain of salt.

This.  I'm excited for it and hoping it'll outdo ToS too, but until we get a few more weeks it's hard to tell how the game is doing, besides the fact it has started off slower.  The current sample is too small and unreliable to go by right now.  If the game does remain relatively steady for the next few weeks though, then I'd say start preparing for the crow eating thread.

Also, I know it sucks, but do keep in mind that Famitsu & Media Create are tracking the game lower than VGC (I think).



ClaudeLv250 on 06 September 2008

Soriku, this game will not pass ToS in Japan.



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johnsobas on 06 September 2008

no it won't get to 300k, probably around 250k-260k. It won't have good legs and it won't have a christmas boost of any significance (games rarely do in Japan).

I still wonder if 250k is considered to be within expectations, it's really hard to judge what the expectations should have been for this game.



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kopstudent89 on 06 September 2008

it depends how much christmas holidays will affect it. But it should be huge in NA, i think it will have legs there



c0rd on 06 September 2008

Week 9:   4,201
Week 10: 4,239

Haha, it even went up slightly... Seriously, if these legs hold up... You never know!