It's been a sometimes talked of comparison saleswise, being particularly noted in Japan where LTD sales are nearly even and weekly sales for VC over the last 5 or 6 weeks exceeding Star Ocean, such that if it continues VC will be ahead of SO4 in Japan in a matter of weeks. VC is ahead in WW LTD only by virtue of having been released WW, whereas SO4 is still only in America and Japan (Others release date coming soon); I knew Others VC sales had to be good for something.

Over the last 5 weeks VC has been outselling SO4, occasionally by a few thousand units. The gap between the 2 in America is a little over 22K. This week's sales gap is ~2k in favour of VC. If the weekly gap remains in this region then VC can overtake SO4 in America in about 11-12 weeks.

Questions:

Can VC maintain its current level of sales (both in America and Japan) through this year? It's had 10 weeks straight of >3.9K sales in Japan and 5 consecutive weeks of >6K sales in America. 10 weeks in Japan is more than your average transient sales spike.

Will SO4 continue to drop until it finds its sales basement in America in the ~1000-2000 range on a weekly basis?

Is there anything in Japan and America that will boost SO4 sales? Is DLC coming for it? Will it go multiplat?

On a worldwide scale what will the Others release in June do for WW SO4 numbers? Did Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PS2) even get released in Others? VGC has no sales tracking info for that game in Others.

Lastly: When Tales of Vesperia gets released in Others and goes multiplat will it kick both of their arses? I guess there is little doubt that 360+PS3 for Tales will see it far outsell both games. Possibly even outsell both games combined???

Whadya reckon?

Id say its possible.

And if it does, it will be a big slap in the face of Squeenix.

all i'm saying that, VC, for the win. Japan yeah, no worries, U.S. it has a high chance. anyway, maybe we will see a sequal, if the sales continue like this, that's what i'm hoping.

Star Ocean has been on the market for about 5 months less than VC. This is a testament of the atomic failure of that game.

Which game are you calling a fail?

SO or VC?

It better be SO, because VC is far better then it.

Oh, easily Valkria Chronicles. It should have sold well over a million on the Japanese game friendly PS3. SO did well considering Xbox 360 is an American Console that has a mostly shooter fan base. BUt VC on the PS 3 with a 3 million base in Japan should have done much much better.

Would it overtake SO if SO got a rerelease?

not to mention SO is a well known ip for the last decade. VC is a new ip in a niche genre and still outsold SO (thus far)

Y'know I was talking to Machina before about the increased sales of VC expressing my joy that it has gotten to a point where it is hard to think that Sega didn't make money.  He told me that some people will always call it a failure for various reasons.  I honestly didn't want to believe him.