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FinalEvangelion on 13 January 2009

650k Lifetime

200k in Japan
350k in NA
100k in Others

 

In the West - sales go down alot the more apparent the anime features become.  That's been an unfortunate harmful side effect for HD jRPGs.



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Garamond on 13 January 2009

800k WW

To be honest I haven't enjoyed many jRPGs this gen and I'm hoping this game doesn't suck. If it does, I"ll probably just skip it like I did IU and Remnant. I should've skipped LO as well so my wallet would be a little fatter right now.

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Zlejedi on 13 January 2009

1.2M lifetime

But scores will be around 70-75% due to character designs as western reviewers don't like childish characters and SO looks to be even more Japanise in this aspect than the norm.



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Hero_time88 on 13 January 2009

300k for Japan is pretty much impossible.

Yeah Blue Dragon did 200k+ and it's a new franchise but it did get a lot of marketing there and the people there did see it as a Dragon Quest like game.

Tales of Symphonia sold 300k+ on both the GameCube and PS2, which makes the total sales 600k+ and Tales of the Abyss did almost 600k, while Tales of Vesperia has only sold 160k on the Xbox 360, and while likely get 180k LTS once it get's a budget re-release.

In the west the J-RPG fanbase is devided between the three consoles and there are a lot of J-RPG/ Star Ocean fans who will never buy a Xbox 360 simply becuase they are PS fanboy's who hate the Xbox 360. Yes, it's stupid, but that's the way it is. Anime-style J-RPG's also don't sell as good as they did a couple of years ago, even on the PS2.



AE86 on 13 January 2009

650k WW

Metascore 77%



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Signalstar on 13 January 2009
MOmO_X said:

I think about 1.3 - 1.5 million for Star Ocean 4

in Japan 300k - 400k
in NA 700k - 900k
in Other 300k - 400k

Infinite Undiscovery life time sale = 700k

The Last Remnant life time sale = 1 million

 


The only way this is remotely possible is if a ps3 version is released the day after the 360.

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Skeeuk on 13 January 2009
Shadowblind said:

 

Scorewise, to be perfectly honest, I believe it all comes down to how it runs technically. TLR is a fantastic game from what I heard, but it got smashed by critics thanks to huge technical problems with the review copies.

 

it was also included in retail copies.

on topic, i think star ocean is the biggest so far jrpg thats gonna be released hype wise.

sites like famitsu will give it 38/40 - 39/40 anyways simply because of brand.

in western reviews i can see it getting a lot of 9`s many 8`s and a few 7`s i dont think it will go below that.

overall id say it will trundle in at about 8.8 in scores and lifetime sales should be 700k+ LO is only where its at because of mass unnoficial bundling, at the time when i bought my last 360 in the uk, nearly everywhere it came with a copy of LO.

if SO4 is mass bundled after initial sales, you may see it creep over a million easily.



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Skeeuk on 13 January 2009

Hero_time88 said:


In the west the J-RPG fanbase is devided between the three consoles and there are a lot of J-RPG/ Star Ocean fans who will never buy a Xbox 360 simply becuase they are PS fanboy's who hate the Xbox 360. Yes, it's stupid

mabey they wont buy a 360 simply because it wuld be stupid to buy another console just to play one game, if your talking about SO4 that is.

 



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Hero_time88 on 13 January 2009
Skeeuk said:

Hero_time88 said:


In the west the J-RPG fanbase is devided between the three consoles and there are a lot of J-RPG/ Star Ocean fans who will never buy a Xbox 360 simply becuase they are PS fanboy's who hate the Xbox 360. Yes, it's stupid

mabey they wont buy a 360 simply because it wuld be stupid to buy another console just to play one game, if your talking about SO4 that is.

 

 

 I actually own a PS3 and Wii, and I don't own a Xbox 360 simply because it doesn't have enough interesting exclusives for my taste, but there are a lot of people who actually hate one the console's.

Just look at the gamefaqs forums of Star Ocean IV, but here on the Vgchartz there is also a lot of PS3/ Sony hate going on lately. Essentially it's the same thing.

 



dsister44 on 13 January 2009

i think this game will sell pretty well it should sell at least 750-1.50 mil i think is a good if only a little broad