1st week US 60.000
2007 US: 240.000
1st week Japan: 45.000
Something like 500.000 for 2007 WW.

Don't underestimate the power of IGN though. That site gets a lot of visitors and they hyped the game like crazy.

Before the 'Buy Z&W-campaign' of IGN I was predicting it would reach 500K worldwide lifetime. Now I say 750K. Not that the campaign will have a big impact, I doubt it. But IGN-reviewers seriously think it is a good game. That will generate good word of mouth and that increases sales over time. But word of mouth is not fast enough to come into effect until christmas, so the sales could be higher if the game was released earlier.

I doubt this game will sell more than 30k in its first week in the us, but i hope im wrong.

Yeah...in order for a game to sell retail has to stock it. I think it'll have legs, though. Any game that gets above an 85 on metacritic will see a long life.

What I could see happening, though, is retailers scrambling to up their quantities for the game, then receiving large shipments in the coming weeks, only to have them sitting on their shelves since the buzz will have died down. Expect a price drop on the game by Christmas, either from Capcom or from retailers with too many copies.

Hopefully, I'm wrong and the game surprises even us.

damn! i was right =/

My month in advance pre-ordered copy didn't even ship til yesterday :(

I had it under 20k because most retailers did not have it in stock. I see it doing, at least, 300k WW lifetime. I expect 500k.