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Sri Lumpa on 26 December 2008
Kasz216 said:

If you were around and everyone else was getting kickass gifts wouldn't you want to get in on that?

I always felt bad for kids who's parents didn't celebrate Chrismas or Hannakuh or another "get stuff" holiday.

That first couple weeks back in school must be brutal.

 

My parents were strict christians, which meant we did not do christmas as it is a pagan feast (the bible doesn't follow birthdays, only date of death... like the christian passover) but followed god's holidays as laid in the bible. This meant I would get gifts around september/october for another religious holiday (date varies as the bible uses a lunar calendar) but as my father would get lower prices on christmas goods via his factory I would get MORE gifts around chritsmas as well. I say around because as we did not do christmas we did not have to wait half our holiday to get the gifts on the 25th but could play with them as soon as the holiday started.

So not doing what everybody is doing can sometime have advantages too



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Zuhyc on 26 December 2008
Serious_frusting said:
mrstickball said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:
mrstickball said:

...To be fair, the Playstation 3 *does* have that 4:1 lead over the X360 in Japan...So it should sell a little bit better, no?

If it does only sell ~100k first week, I think that's pretty bad, given how much this game has been hyped by Sony fans. Time will tell, though, if it's true, and if it has legs.

 

 4:1?

2,644,591

vs

856,307

That's less than 3.1:1

 

My bad. I thought the PS3 had already passed the 3m mark in Japan.

@Steven - Go look at all of the JRPG arguments that have been lobbied about WKC. Many (and I mean many) Sony fans argued that WKC was going to have a massive opening, and blow the doors off of what JRPGs have sold in Japan. If 100k is true, than it's certainly not the case.

 

 

who are all these sony fans making these claims about WKC because i have not seen them. i have heard them say stuff like now the ps3 is going to show the 360 how to sell a rpg. but thats about it. you are clearly just trying to blow things out of proportion so a riot will start, then you can start pressing the ban button. is the even a ban button

 

Very true. I expected the game to sell 500k lifetime. But our expectations went down after the famitsu review.



Serious_frusting on 26 December 2008

i dont know if the sales are like this because of shipments or like this because of demand, one thing makes me laugh though. if these numbers turn out to be true then a mediocre jrpg 'WKC' outsold AAA jrpg 'IU or LR' one of them are AAA according to famitsu in its first day at retail. and then people still it a flop. thats like a game like haze outselling cod4 in its first day out



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blazinhead89 on 26 December 2008

I didn't realise people who Don't own a PS3 had such an interest in every single game for that platform (Particularly Exclusive). Are you so annoyed you cant play it you want it to fail?



blazinhead89 on 26 December 2008
Serious_frusting said:
i dont know if the sales are like this because of shipments or like this because of demand, one thing makes me laugh though. if these numbers turn out to be true then a mediocre jrpg 'WKC' outsold AAA jrpg 'IU or LR' one of them are AAA according to famitsu in its first day at retail. and then people still it a flop. thats like a game like haze outselling cod4 in its first day out

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luisgvm on 26 December 2008

132.000k FIRST DAY is very good. lets hope it have legs this game is being bundled right?



Deviation59 on 26 December 2008
xlost7 said:
makingmusic476 said:
psrock said:
it's a flop because fanboys expected higher numbers on a forum, wow i don't know what to say anymore.

 

Yeah, Level 5 should just give up.  Really, they should stop making games now.

Nice sarcastic comment MM476 and Level 5 has always been on an awesome track record delivering a wealth of titles.

Dragon Quest VIII
Dark Cloud 2
Rogue Galaxy
Professor Layton

This is probably their first flop ever, so what. They were trying a new IP and clearly it went the wrong way. We don't know any official reviews until we get some ones we trust.

@luisgvm

Based on a new IP its good, but going with the market that's awful for a high budget game on the PS3. This game should sell at least 500k for the developer to recoup money back. And I don't see it going anywhere after Famitsu shot the hardcore PS3 audience down in Japan with a lackluster score.

Yeah, except it's not a flop. At all. Even though it's on a much smaller install base, White Knight Chronicles seems to be selling about as well as.... Rogue Galaxy. So yeah. Not a flop.



outlawauron on 27 December 2008
DMeisterJ said:
tombi123 said:
mrstickball said:
outlawauron said:
@ xlost

Not at all. Dark Cloud 1 sold less than 100k lifetime in Japan.

But their last effort, Rogue Galaxy, sold over 350,000 in Japan. That'd be a better barometer, I think.

 

Self ownage. 

First you claim WKC only sold better only because the PS3 has a bigger install base than the 360 and then say the 360 JRPG's have a better attach rate. Now you want to compare a game on the PS2 with an install base of 20M to a game on the PS3 with an install base of 2.7M, thats 7:1. 

Self ownage.

Install base is always self ownage.

If it's all isntall base, then how can CoD: WaW PS3 or CoD: WaW 360 > CoD: WaW Wii?

How is DMC4 PS3 > DMC4 Wii?

How is Burnout Paradise PS3 not too far behiind BP 360?  Should be much lower considering install bases.

And PES and Fifa PS3 > 360.

The argument is fundamentally flawed, and when brough into any argument shows true desperation from the poster that is unable to concede that they were incorrect.

Like I said, This thread is Hilarious.

I agree, but did you see my next post? I thought that it was a better point.

 

"I agree, but at that time the PS2 had what 20 million consoles out there?

And Dark Cloud released in December of 2000 when the PS2 had 3.4 million consoles sold.

 

So, DC 1 and WKC are both new ips (at the time of release). Both released during late December, and had more similar userbases. Why couldn't Dark Cloud be used as a barometer?

WKC needs to do much better given the budget and time spent, but realistically, the two games are similar."



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