Famitsu Estimates (October 2009)

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trestres on 17 October 2009

That one isn't wrong. That number they gave was the first shipment. The ones I mentioned are failing already for Final shipments.

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darthdevidem01 on 17 October 2009

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yeah but are they failing in terms of being higher or lower?

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trestres on 17 October 2009

Both below. Look at the September estimates, they predicted 240k max for IE2 and 120k max for SMT:SJ.

IE2 is almost at 400k now and SMT:SJ is at 96k in its first week.

GTP has a 320k max for LT so that one isnt wrong.

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gurglesletch on 17 October 2009

I think FF13 will move more than a million.

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Son1x on 17 October 2009

patjuan32 said:
kopstudent89,

The tales of series has been around longer than the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series has but Tales of Symphonia was the best selling tales game which sold 320k in Japan and over a million units world wide. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for the GC sold 370k in Japan and over a million units world wide. Therefore both titles are equally huge but which one performs better in the market place is always just a guess. There's no definite way to predict the actual sales of a game, there are only estimates.

Tales of Symphonia was ported to PS2 (released only in Japan) and sold additional 450-500k over there.

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Seriously, wth? It is gonna outsell ToS:DotNW.

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darthdevidem01 on 17 October 2009

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WOW @ IE2.....they are off by so much!

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koffieboon on 17 October 2009

Netyaroze said:
Yeah but if it would be something like 4-5 Mio they would write 4 Mio+ and not 2.5 Mio+.

But I am sure everybody who wants to see in another way will say oh its 2.5 Mio+ that means it can be 10 mio or more.

If so they could have writen 500k+ for FF 13. After Famitsu it wont be 3 or 4 or 5 Mio it will be more something like 2.5-2.8 Mio why they didnt wrote 3Mio+ ?

Not if they simply feel there is too much uncertainty and feel 2.5 million is just as likely as 5 million. If they really feel like it will be between 2.5 and 3 million they will just say so.