Lightning Strikes posted...
Ha, what. The only Tales of game to sell 1 million was Symphonia, the rest don't come close. This will probably outsell them worldwide. Same for Persona, too, though 4 sold pretty well...
I'm expecting about 7-800,000 for Xenoblade worldwide. Pretty respectable, and better than the examples you mentioned.
And yes, I can see this selling really well in America. Pre-orders have apparently been really good, and there's no way Nintendo wouldn't print more if demand existed. That's exactly what happened in Europe. It was originally supposed to have a limited run, then came out and somehow topped the charts...
They don't all have to be Symphonia. Xenoblade's Japanese sales were by no means exceptional and its lifetime sales aren't even half of the latest console Tales of game's 1st week sales in Japan. Even Europe's combined with Japan's lifetime Xenoblade sales don't beat Tales of Xillia's week 1 sales from what I see. It looks like it's around 130-160k for Japan and Europe each. It just seems much more reasonable to expect Xenoblade to perform around the same in NA rather than doubling or tripling EU and JPN imo also when you factor in that it really doesn't have the selling power or popularity of other established niche JRPGs like Tales of and Persona worldwide.
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