well, that I can't predict at all, Wii is just too hard to predict =X.

I'm very interested to see the results so guess we'll find out in a few months hehehe.

Monster Hunter 3 will do million at least in Japan.It's has been reported there seeing Brawl like level preorders from some stores.Add in a new color and a bundle equal high sells for capcom and Nintendo.

Prediction:

Dragon Quest 9 first week > PS3 japan lifetime sales.

prolly not hard for DQ9

that's a good question, it's not like it's the rest of the world, I'd say first month though, 2 tops.

The MH online will be fine. There is no reason to think it will not be. CoD:WaW has fine online as well as MK wii. Anyways, I think the main reason that MH did not sell well on the ps2 is due to the need for the hard drive add on. That never went over well for ps2 and prolly limited the amount of sales.

@axumblade: I think psp go is not going to do well. You said the psp-3000 will still be there which is what the point in my post was. I think the psp-3000 will sell fine but I think the go will not take off for the reasons I listed.

For those talking about it, I think DQ first week will be 2.0-2.5M, which is in line with DQVIII. It is possible it does 3m, but I find it unlikely. But, we will have to see.

That game looks great...SMG has vastly superior graphics though. That might not be clear to people who don't know what they are looking at.

Racial classificatin has no truths when it comes to stereotypes. Stereotypes only have a mild chance of being true when you look into an ethnic group. Asia,doesn't share the same values as closely as the west does(which is pretty much all christian, with divergents between groups) , and all of them fit into very different ethnic groups. Japan itself, has been mostly isolated for 2,000 years before the meiji restoration. It has very different values, and some similar ones from other asian countries. So generalizations, like the one you are making, shouldn't be made at all, but if you are to make one at least make one on a group of people who share the same ideas and values. Racial Classification has nothing to do with stereotypes is all I'm saying.  Oh and the only way I would recognize your stereotype as anywhere near valid, is if you were raised in Japan, and have seen what the average person acts like. Even then I find any stereotype hard to believe.  Also in the specific case that you mentioned about "asians being cheap", I just want to tell you that that is ALL relative on the person. Some people are cheap while others are not. Being "asian"  has nothing to do with it.

well, if you know details about the history of Asian countries in general, then you'd know that the time of poverty>>>>>>>>time of prosperity by a ton, so would it really surprise you that people are more picky about money in general? it sure doesn't me because I've traveled all over and lived all over, Japan is no different, they've especially had a bad history of poverty outside of China's longer history, and most of the time worse.