Sorry if you thought this would be another thread discussing platinum sellers and reviving your sick fantasies of Madworld and House of Dead reaching 1 million. Sorry but this is about pokemon.

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Pokemon platinum

2.41 mil in japan  992,995 opening week 330622 second week

1.18 in US 854274 opening week 320109 second week

0 in EU

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl

5.87 mil in japan 1646064 opening week 487717 second week

6.26mil in US 1362580 opening week 479605 second week

4.69 mil in EU 493057 opening week 349,354 second week

Alright so this is what we have. You will have to excuse the lack of neatness. If someone wishes they can put everything in chart form. Pretty much we are looking at a third installment doing roughly half of what the first installments did. So far platinum has been up to par. Platinum hasn’t quite reached the mark in Japan so far it only holds 41% compared to its older sibling. However it opened to about 60% of what its predecessors did. Not to mention 67% for its second week. It should be on track to do over 50% though it will be a slow process.

In the US, platinum opened to roughly 62% of diamond and pearl. Second week is also looking good with roughly 66%. If Diamond and pearl can about 300k the next two weeks before dropping to 150k then into 75k then to 50k finally it should leg out its life at about 20k. That is being optimistic. Realistically it will probably start its drop next week or the week after. With the DSi’s release and the popularity of the game it should be on track to do its 50% lifetime. In fact it may even do 50% this year, which would give it 3.13mil.

EU’s diamond and pearl release was not very big. So platinum should have no problem doing 50% on opening day. My prediction is that platinum will easily do 300k opening week in Europe. It should be able to do around 200k in its second week without a problem. My prediction would be 275k second week. Again Platinum should be able to do 50% this year in EU which would give pokemon platinum 2.345mil.

3.13+2.345= 5.475 million. I would figure that Japan will probably contribute rough 500k. My prediction is pokemon Platinum will take 9^th in the top 10 selling games of 09 unless a major set of huge releases come out. Platinum should be about 7^th in US. 9^th or 10^th in EU, but it won’t chart for the year in Japan.

 So what do you all think?

Sounds OK to me.

I think it will sell much more in the long run though.

Sounds like you have a lot of free time

Sounds OK

Sounds like if you didn't want to discuss MadWorld or HotD you shouldn't have mentioned them.

HotD will sell a million btw

Also, I don't see how HotD even relates since Platinum Games have nothing to do with that title ;p