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wenlan on 12 July 2009
Viper1 said:
wenlan said:

2nd week over 1 million is not gonna happen for DQIX.
The 2nd hand market is huge in Japan, and those numbers won't be tracked.

A lot of core gamers finished this game in 2 days, if they don't care about the side quests, they will dump the used copies to the market.
Releasing games on DS has no mechanism (e.g. DLC) to keep gamers holding this game a little bit longer.

Still, SE has done a great job shipping more than 3 million copies to stores for the launch day.

Isn't the second hand market illegal in Japan?

Or was that once upon a time?

it's legal in Japan.  in japan, you can even rent CD for 100 yen, and convert songs to MP3.....

i was shocked when my friends told me that.



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Viper1 on 12 July 2009

Ah, just did some research. Japan supposedly had legislation up to block all second hand electronic sales back in 2006. I had heard it passed but it apparently didn't.



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wenlan on 12 July 2009
invetedlotus123 said:
wenlan said:

2nd week over 1 million is not gonna happen for DQIX.
The 2nd hand market is huge in Japan, and those numbers won't be tracked.

A lot of core gamers finished this game in 2 days, if they don't care about the side quests, they will dump the used copies to the market.
Releasing games on DS has no mechanism (e.g. DLC) to keep gamers holding this game a little bit longer.

Still, SE has done a great job shipping more than 3 million copies to stores for the launch day.

Well, maybe the collection factor may hold the used market for a while, no? Maybe Japanese players don't give importance to have a collection...

i think SE came up something gamers can connect their cell phone to DS for certain items.

but due to the natural limit of DS storage (256 MB for DQIX I believe), there is really not that much stuff to hold them for 1 or 2 more weeks.

if you go to Yahoo Japan auction (the biggest auction site in Japan), there are more than 4,000 DQIX for sale now.

http://list4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/2084063651-category-leaf.html

The "problem" of 2nd hand market for developers is the same everywhere.



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saicho on 12 July 2009

A remote possibility of 1 million second week. I think only DQ7 had a 1 million second week before. I expect the game to sell about 25% of first week in the second week which in the case would be around 750000 copies.



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outlawauron on 13 July 2009
johnsobas said:
anything over 2.6 million would break the record, but don't be so quick to call it a record until we get famitsu and media create in. DQ has better legs than final fantasy in general, but it is still front loaded. It is more casual than many RPGs, and in this case with the multi-player you may see even more legs than usual. I could see 5 or 6 million.

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Kantor on 14 July 2009

Assuming VGC numbers, it's possible.

Assuming everyone else's numbers, not so much.



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