Why should SE care about the number of PS3 sold? Charity? Nomura? Or to sell FFXII. They made it easier... multiplatform it is ;)

BTW... 1 milion marked ;)

I marked your mark and raise you double.

I'm not doubting it's going to make a ridicoulous amount of money. It will.

I just felt the need to interject a little about budgets of certain games. Regardless of platform, a long development time will guarantee a very expensive game. 

PS3 will do something like 125k when FFXIII comes out. DQIX is going to have a bigger openining for a cheaper system but I still only expect DS to do 175k. But a 1m boost in Japan is absurd. The PS3 base may only be 3.6m or so when FFXIII arrives. One game doesn't give you a 30% base boost.

I think he is hoping for the PS3 slim or a major pricecut. Along with a bundle.

Otherwise... as you say, it will NOT stand the chance to hit a million in release month.

Absolutely impossible.

People are overestimating the possible sales of Dragon Quest IX. It is true that NDS install base is a lot bigger than PSX or PS2 but at certain quantity this factor becomes irrelevant because the key factor is the fanbase. Let's take a look at Final Fantasy X sales, with a much lower install base it outsells Final Fantasy XII, the same with other chapters.

Anyway it will probably become the best selling title, but we cannot expect over 3 million units in its first week, actually two days because the game is released on Saturday.

I haven't seen anyone predict over 3m, but if the 2.0m figure isn't rounded up, I don't consider up to 3.0m impossible especially since there are two days left to preorder the game. I'm expecting 2.7m week one, which is more like 1.8m day one, 900k day two.

TheSource, are we sure the pre-order numbers reported are from actual customers pre-orders or are retailers pre-orders? I remember Sony saying they had one million GT5P pre-orders in just Europe.

If the preorder number is correct then we can predict that the game could sell 2.3-3 million units in its first week. I see no reason why it can't open better than 8 did. Also DS games tend to have decent legs. It could sell 500k to 1 million the following week. Lifetime sales could be 4-5 million. It is a real shame dragon quest hasn't caught on in western markets.

So no it won't outsell the PS3 by week one. It will though by week 2.

Japan is retailers.

Also, @the Source, did you consider the new red dsi that is releasing in the 175k numbers for the week? Putting both together will raise the sales higher than that imo.