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[Meier]

637,000, or roughly 65% of the initial shipment. Winning Eleven 7, by comparison, sold 691,000, or roughly 80% of its initial shipment.

Stafi 3 - 57k (30% of shipment)
Paper Mario RPG - 47,000/250,000
FF 1&2 Advance - 39,000/193,000
Powerful Pro Baseball 11 PS2 - 21,000/328,000

http://www.dengekionline.com/soft/ranking/ranking.htm

 

[Socreges]

Konami should have included online play. That would have made up for the loss.

[edit] Hm, Konami suspects they'll sell 1.5 million copies of WE8 (for whatever reason). I wonder if it's just a fluke launch or a lack of interest this year.

 

[cvxfreak]

My topic's better.

 

[Meier]

Konami should have included online play. That would have made up for the loss.

[edit] Hm, Konami suspects they'll sell 1.5 million copies of WE8 (for whatever reason). I wonder if it's just a fluke launch or a lack of interest this year.

I imagine they expect there will be some added interest with the Olympics. The babelfish translation mentioned something about Athenian such and such in it. I think 1.5 million is out of reach though for this version -- I fully expect it to do about the same as 7 and top off around 1.15 million.

 

[Cold Shadow]

don't forget that Japan won the asia-cup so they get a extra sales boost from that too

 

[DCharlie]

"extra boos"

ha - the unintentional comedy given the fact that everyone in China boo'ed every time a japanese player touched a ball through out the competition....

 

[Miburou]

I wonder if the slowdown might have given some gamers second thoughts, and made them wait for the International version, instead?

 

[cvxfreak]

"extra boos"

ha - the unintentional comedy given the fact that everyone in China boo'ed every time a japanese player touched a ball through out the competition....

Don't remind me. XD

 

[cvxfreak]

I wonder if the slowdown might have given some gamers second thoughts, and made them wait for the International version, instead?

I think that'd be the practical thing to do. Winning Eleven 7 International was already great, do they need another one this soon? If I were interested in the series I'd stick to waiting for INT versions.

 

[Socreges]

I wonder if the slowdown might have given some gamers second thoughts, and made them wait for the International version, instead?

It's sad to say, but I think the slowdown is just that bad. Insofar as it would actually prevent people from buying the game. Fucking Konami. Oh well. Game still rox.