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lookin very good. I hope the gameplay isnt flawed

Graphics look good, but this game is just screaming "retail flop".

I'll be surprised if this does more than 200k in Japan, sad truth.

I think it will do way more than that. But I 'm pretty bad at predictions to say how many.

The hype certainly doesn't seem to be there like it should. But we'll see. I mean, the hype wasn't there for Tomodachi Collection either.

Awkward Ballroom dancing ftw?

Hmm...200k seems a bit low. However, in one territory only, it is a pretty good figure.

I'd say maybe 425k in Japan is more likely, because it does have the FF brand name. The previous GC entry in the series sold 370k, with 187k first week on a userbase around ~2.75 million at the time.

Well, you also have to consider that those sales were under a more console-centric Japan. Now, despite the higher sales of Wii than GC, it most likely won't sell even that well due to the apparent shift from consoles to handhelds.

I really don't see how you could say this. The Final Fantasy brand is still extremely stong in Japan even if the other Crystal Chronicles games haven't sold all that well. None of those other games have had the budget and the hype of Crystal Bearers though.

probably over 350K, since teh promotional campaigns will start in the following weeks with Bon Jovi's song in the TV commercials

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I hope it reacher over 500K, who knows, since the game is so different from the usual CC series excluding wiiware

Yeah, I took all that into account, which is why I didn't quite venture into the 500k territory.

I hope that with its release near the holidays (compared to the GC game's release in August) and the Wii's ~8.35m userbase around the time the game comes out, it could do it.

Dragon Quest Swords sold 500k in Japan on the Wii as well, and the DQ series is usually 10% bigger than Final Fantasy. Since DQS and this FF game are both spin-offs, the same metric may apply. They may track similarly.

It is just a prediction though--- I only spent a few minutes coming up with the number.