Huge gain of 4k well foreshadowed by the 104k gap in the Americas

What the hell does

"Media Create Hardware sales" mean?

Yes, Tekken 5 did indeed sell less than 4 but it's a negligible amount which is inside the margin of error in sales tracking which is 10%.
Even if VGC is 100% accurate a difference of less that 10% between their sales would count more as "in-line" instead of "Decline".

Now portable sales we've mentioned is not an accurate representation of a console franchise's popularity or sales power as seen in GTA and GT.

So with that said, I really don't see a downward trend with this franchise in the PS2 era and it's hardware moving capabilities should not be discounted because of said trend.

To a certian person in this thread....Don't do drugs. You know who you are.

I skimmed through this thread.

Has Avinash come out and said anything about Famitsu, Media Create, and Dengeki all reported that PS3 outsold Wii by a decent margin?

@outlawauron

he said as we'r on VGC their figures should be believed

@JapanMan4:

Why not? A lot of games have iterations that sell more on handheld, and some vice versa, its not the system that's the issue, its the games, and what the market perceives as their quality

Wha?

Regardless of region, you should always take as much data and as many reports as possible to get a clearer picture of reality.

@Avinash_Tyagi

Do you even play fighters? As a huge fan of the genre I think it's ridiculous that you expect a handheld version of a game intended to be played on big screen head to head with an arcade stick to perform as well as the console version. I'm not even a fan of Tekken, but using the PSP version as an example of how the series is in decline is a joke.

Seems to me that the last couple of console versions of Tekken sold 300 - 400k in Japan, if Tekken 6 sells different to that then I'll accept that there is a change in the popularity of the series, but single digit percentage differences between versions doesn't signify any signifigant change in popularity whatsoever.

^Actually it would be 20K different, much bigger than single digit between 4 and 5, and you can argue that the PSP version isn't representative, but that would be an issue with devs not being able to develop a good game on the PSP, not the system itself.

We'll know in a few weeks how well it performed.

@outlawauron, when other figures say one thing and VGC says another, and ioi doesn't change it, then I take it as VGC numbers trumping the others