First day Sales in Japan - WKC sold about 100 K in 1 day

Cyrus365 - 370 days 11 hours ago

Reading reports, that apparently WKC has sold 76% of it's total shipment, and another one is needed by the weekend, or they'll be sellouts allover the place, rather than a few places.

But the initial shipment was lower than normal for a semi anticipated title.

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IzKyD1331 - 370 days 11 hours ago

you would think that a Level 5 developed JRPG published by Sony on Christmas day would be reason enough to have initially shipped more units

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meepmoopmeep - 370 days 11 hours ago

In Level 5 I Trust

:)

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morganfell - 370 days 10 hours ago

What I really want to see is the impact it will have on Console sales.

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Danja - 370 days 10 hours ago

In Level 5 I Trust

:)

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cayal - 370 days 10 hours ago

"you would think that a Level 5 developed JRPG published by Sony on Christmas day would be reason enough to have initially shipped more units"

It's Christmas though. Industries close or slow down a fair bit for awhile.

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SonyOwnsNextYear - 370 days 10 hours ago

that is what certain companies would like you to believe.

same companies are ignorant to the fact that the world is round and consists of more than just 1 market.

SONYFTW

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baum - 370 days 10 hours ago

I know Square Enix prices Final Fantasy in the very high league, like the equivalent of 90 bucks each, perhaps more now that the dollar is weak. I'm interested in knowing because if that's the case then WKC is definitely a success and that would mean more support for PS3 from Level 5. As long as this game sells a million or so worldwide by next year I think it's more than enough to get more support from them. Half a million would probably be enough for them to break even if prices are higher for this game in Japan (because it's a given that they will be in Europe and GB).

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Nathan Drake - 370 days 10 hours ago

I came in here just to :)

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Homicide - 370 days 9 hours ago

Is that even fair? The 360 install in Japan is only like half a million so the attach rate is pretty incredible. Still WKC did pretty good.

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agmsd - 370 days 5 hours ago

They surely need a bundle for this game. It will help them move more consoles..

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Kain81 - 370 days 4 hours ago

i cant wait for WKC

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gaffyh - 370 days 3 hours ago

lol @CloudsEnd - that was actually pretty funny. Though I was lookinf forward to Cry-On :(. Good sales for WKC, but I'm guessing FF13 sales will be enormous compared to this.

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SaiyanFury - 370 days 3 hours ago

@meepmoopmeep

The PS3 will eventually become the console of choice for quality JRPGs. Lord knows a few of the ones out already are of outstanding quality. Valkyria Chronicles made by the same people who did the amazing Skies of Arcadia, they know RPGs and this is proven in VC's quality and originality. White Knight Chronicles is another quality PS3 title. What JRPGs does the 360 have? Blue Dragon, The Last Remnant, Infinite Undiscovery? All of those games garnered mediocre reviews despite them being either exclusive or timed exclusives on the 360. Square-Enix is more interested in making money than truly original RPGs anymore, and while I enjoyed Blue Dragon, there wasn't a lot to differentiate it from other JRPGs. It looked good, sure and I liked the characters but it wasn't unique. The PS3 JRPGs coming of late ARE unique and attractive to modern JRPGamers like me. JRPGs on the PS3 will be great. X-Edge is coming in March and I can't express how much I look forward to it.

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StephanieBBB - 370 days 3 hours ago

But I can't help to think that it's far from the quality of games we expect nowdays. Sure hope the gameplay wins me over.

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Kain81 - 370 days 2 hours ago

that they would make Skys of Arcadia for PS3, they announced a WII version, but said in the same sentence that they will make a PS3 version too.

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prowiew - 370 days ago

Thats the worst translation ive read in a long time. I didnt understand a bit. Anyway, if its true that it has sold well. Thats great news to sony. Now they need at least 10 -15 more games that sell well.

ps. its too bad that wkc is getting mediocre reviews. Japanese developers are making trash rpgs games lately.

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morganfell - 369 days 18 hours ago

We're in the Open Zone? Someone tell N4G the labels are wrong. Maybe that's why you resorted to a personal attack. You do not know where you are. Now I have to also wish to see people that know the difference between the Open and Gamer zones.

Besides, all one has to do is look here: http://www.n4g.com/up/53893...

It is pretty obvious why you are in a PS3 thread criticizing the game and people that support it. Fear. Fear and desperation. You attack people and say they have no life yet look what you are doing with your time here. Look at your thread history. Scratch that. Introspection and self examination requires a modicum of intellect so I can understand if you are not predisposed to undertake such an endeavor. It's rather like showing up to a gunfight empty handed.

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SaiyanFury - 369 days 18 hours ago

@Kain81

While I can't find anything concrete to substantiate what you said about Skies of Arcadia 2 being on PS3, I wouldn't doubt it. The same team made Valkyria Chronicles and have never even given a hint about a 360 version. I'd love to see the next game in a series like Skies of Arcadia on PS3. Not only would it be fitting, but it would just feel right. This is a personal opinion here, but considering I've been playing my JRPGs on PS consoles for over a decade now, my 360's controller just doesn't feel right for those kinds of games.

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Aquanox - 369 days 16 hours ago

I'm not sure why some people here is jumping in joy here. These are worrying numbers for such an important brand combination (Level 5 + Sony PS3)

Just for you to put things in perspective, the long forgotten Xbox 360 (in Japan) moved 108k copies of Tales of Vesperia in its first day of sales. I was expecting WKS to at least double that performance... while not getting close to big names like Dragon Quest (2 million in 1 day) or FF (2 million in 1 week) I still was expecting a much better number from this title. Being outperformed by another RPG in a console wit much much lesser marketshare is worrying... to say the least.

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LoVeRSaMa - 369 days 16 hours ago

In Level 5 WE Trust.

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GarandShooter - 369 days 16 hours ago

According to this thread:

http://www.n4g.com/nintendo...

Tales of vesperia sold 70k on first day in Japan.

The article also mentions sell outs of WKC which will affect numbers. I don't think sales can be reasonably judged at this early stage, for this particular game.

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meepmoopmeep - 369 days 16 hours ago

@Saiyan

yeah, mate, X-Edge looks awesome.
i can't wait to get my hands on WKC.
i wish i could comprehend Japanese speech & text
so i could import games right off the bat.

*goes back to Rosetta Stone course*

:)

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Ramzadel - 370 days 8 hours ago

not to mention the godly amount of hours I am going to spend on the online portion =)

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TOO PAWNED - 370 days 11 hours ago

and Sony, they invested a lot of money in this IP(Sonys IP btw). I hope it does well.

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meepmoopmeep - 370 days 10 hours ago

yes, good for Level 5
i hope all their games sell great.
they have a lot of great games developed so far across platforms.

i hope they're working on Dark Cloud 3 right now.

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Danja - 370 days 10 hours ago

or another jeanne arc..

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No FanS Land - 370 days 10 hours ago

Danja you're right. Jeanne d'arc is the definite RPG of the PSP. It's actually this game that got me interested in Level-5. Well personnaly my fav S-RPg is FFTactics htough the psp version is only a remake, thus reducing the impact it had.

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rdgneoz3 - 370 days 9 hours ago

They can work on Dark Cloud 3 after WKC comes out in the US :P

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Rock Bottom - 370 days 8 hours ago

I loved Jeanne D'ark, I would love to see a similar game from Level 5, but I rather see it on the PSP(or PSN) and not as full Blue-Ray game.

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The Great Melon - 370 days 7 hours ago

Level 5 shot into my view also after playing Jeanne D'arc.

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TheHater - 370 days 11 hours ago

X-MENS?
:)

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TOO PAWNED - 370 days 11 hours ago

LOL, you got last letter right

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TheHater - 370 days 11 hours ago

can I buy a vowel?

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Jeremy Clarkson - 370 days 10 hours ago

"A consonant please Carol"

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Gun_Senshi - 370 days 9 hours ago

if I say that word I get banned from gamer zone

Edit: I wish I had 1 more bubble to reply at bladestar's post and laugh at his stupidity and spinning of everything.

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Narutone66 - 370 days 7 hours ago

On topic: Awesome number of game sold. Were the xbox fanboys saying this game will flopped? I hope not, coz this news will shut them up.

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Dark_Overlord - 370 days 1 hour ago

Anyone who is willing to make Bladestar look stupid deserves a bubble

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TOO PAWNED - 370 days 11 hours ago

are you serious? You can do so much in your life in those 8 months. Like play my game Too HUman.

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IzKyD1331 - 370 days 11 hours ago

you'd miss Killzone if that happened

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TOO PAWNED - 370 days 11 hours ago

good question. Also problem here was that shippment was very small due to hollydays.
Don't remember folks this is NOT official. This is low end. Expected number is actually between 125k-150k for first day.

EDIT: IZKY
Hmm than that is very good, because DMC4 is best selling PS3 game(debute)in Japan, after MGS4 of course. Famitsu failed to bring this game down. And from what i have seen (Justin.tv) game is very solid.

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TOO PAWNED - 370 days 10 hours ago

Yes they were very jelous on live stream playthrough that was on Justin.tv Guy played for almost two days non stop, i was coming and going, watched game for 1 hour in totall and every single time there were xbots there trashing WKC, PS3 and Sony. I mean it was so transparent, why spend hours watching something that you dont like? They just want it on 360. To bad since sony owns IP and is publisher of course.
BTW-sorry but it wont sell 500k in 6 days, not even MGS4 did that. But we can now for sure say that it isn't a flop as someone hoped for

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Cyrus365 - 370 days 10 hours ago

I highly doubt it'll sell another 300-400 K in the next 6 days or so, considering the low initial shipment numbers.

Probably 200-300 K by the end of Dec might be more realistic.

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iCallShenanigans - 370 days 9 hours ago

"As for sale scale of first day as 100,000 main scale thinking."

>8D

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Aquanox - 369 days 16 hours ago

I'm not sure why some people here is jumping in joy here. These are worrying numbers for such an important brand combination (Level 5 + Sony PS3)

Just for you to put things in perspective, the long forgotten Xbox 360 (in Japan) moved 108k copies of Tales of Vesperia in its first day of sales. I was expecting WKS to at least double that performance... while not getting close to big names like Dragon Quest (2 million in 1 day) or FF (2 million in 1 week) I still was expecting a much better number from this title. Being outperformed by another RPG in a console wit much much lesser marketshare is worrying... to say the least.

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TOO PAWNED - 370 days 10 hours ago

I am PS3 fanboy but we have to be realistic. This is new IP, and very few Jrpgs sell over 1 million in Japan. Don't get me wrong this numbers(probably 200k) first week are awesome and i expect lifetime in Japan 500k at least but in 6 days(he said end of December), no way.

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gamfreak - 370 days 10 hours ago

the japanese are so looking forward to it. And remember this, it from the reknown dev Level-5.

All games from them are great, didn't see anyone of it flop though.

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Danja - 370 days 10 hours ago

WKC will top at around 200-250k 1ST WEEK SALES

It will probably sell between 400-600K lifetime sales...

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NegativeCreep427 - 370 days 10 hours ago

But Level 5 is critically known to be one of the best RPG developers in the industry behind SquareEnix!

Lets High-ball it and say WKC is out for about 4 days, that alone will lead it to AT LEAST 370,000 units in its first WEEK!!! In Japan.

You Xbot Fa*gets would like to downplay that achievement, but no matter what that is certainly a big success for Sony and Level 5.

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TOO PAWNED - 370 days 10 hours ago

I heard that they will begin giving them for free on streets of Tokyo, people are still going to sun away in opposide way like they saw someone with AIDS written on his forhead

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GiantEnemyCrab - 370 days 10 hours ago

Reminds me of the PS3 in the USA. You can have Japan's weak numbers any day of the week I will take the US.

100k isn't bad but it's no better than a game like Tales of Vesperia did. I wouldn't be surprised if it dropped like a rock in sales a lot like Tales as well.

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Wiimaniac - 370 days 9 hours ago

Tales series have been around since the Snes days, the same with FF series(nes) and Dragon Quest series(nes)...

Nice try GiantEnemyCrab but this is a new IP...

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TOO PAWNED - 370 days 10 hours ago

its from Japanese site, follow link(s)

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GiantEnemyCrab - 370 days 10 hours ago

Yeah, I'd like to see some Famitsu numbers or something.

"As for sale scale of first day as 100,000 main scale thinking,

At part it seems that records rather high digestibility."

In some way that mess of text = 100k sales first day in Japan?

I always knew PS3 fanboys have a high digestibility(for $ony jism) so it's probably correct.

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NegativeCreep427 - 370 days 9 hours ago

any proof? besides a forum?...

That your dead-sh!t 360 console has the best games??? Stupid Jack???

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Gun_Senshi - 370 days 9 hours ago

LBP sold Millions Dumbtwit troll

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N4360G - 370 days 9 hours ago

LOL LittleBigPlanet has sold over one million copies already and is rated higher than both Halo 3 and Gears Of War 2 on Metacritic.

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tatotiburon - 370 days 9 hours ago

sorry droids but WKC sold more in first day than LBP in japan or America.

We have to wait for worlwide sales.

But still this sales are crap compare with Mass effect and Oblivion sales hahah

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Gun_Senshi - 370 days 8 hours ago

Mass Effect and Oblivion are both Multiplatform and the Superior version, vastly superior, are on PC.

Nice try tardie.

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ultimolu - 370 days 8 hours ago

God, you're such a damn loser. They're both exclusive games so um...grow up?

Why do you care so much?

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likedamaster - 370 days 6 hours ago

Having fun with your xbox Ulti? Just wondering...

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ultimolu - 370 days 1 hour ago

Nope, but I will have fun with my PSP. :D

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tatotiburon - 369 days 18 hours ago

lol little droids crying because their games didn't sell. And i was talking about console sales, xbox 360 sales. Sucks to be a droid, keep crying please hahaha

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ultimolu - 369 days 18 hours ago

Poor little tato, crying for attention.
Poor little tato, crying because he can't play PS3 games.
Poor little tato, a 360 fanbrat he will forever be.
Poor little tato, where are your games.
Poor little tato, you sad, sad lemming.

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TrooGamer - 370 days 5 hours ago

Again shut up...

Comparing Tales with a new IP, clever. Moron

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Agent Orange - 370 days 4 hours ago

Worst troll ever.

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The gaming GOD - 370 days 2 hours ago

I agree.

And not just that, but the troll is comparing WKC's FIRST DAY to TLR and ToV's FIRST WEEK. By time the next day hits, WKC will have both TLR and ToV beaten.

So Chrissy, if you want to troll, try being less stupid next time

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TrooGamer - 370 days 2 hours ago

Must do *sarcasm* :-)

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SGT Nathan Fail - 370 days 2 hours ago

Any game that does not sale more than 500k in a day automatically sucks. =)

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DeathroW22 - 369 days 23 hours ago

Well?

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TrooGamer - 369 days 18 hours ago

Yea it is when you consider some rpgs hafe a lifetimes sales figure of 150k

This is day 1 sales and during the holidays...enough said

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Mc187 - 369 days 16 hours ago

It's nice to see square have competition

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