Isn't the Elder Scrolls series more known to the PC community? And didn't the 360 version come out at the same time as the PC version?
The way I see it is that Bioware has made a market on the Xbox with their previous titles, and because this game will be exclusively be released on the Xbox 360 (at least for launch), the lifetime sales can reach the predicted price.
And if we are going to use history to plan the future, you can look back and see that KOTOR (made by Bioware as well) set a sales record for the original Xbox of selling 250k in 4 days. This was of course back in July of 2003. Another report I found on IGN says it continued to soar to 600k by October of the same year. This was of course before it had a chance to hit Platinum where it sold more.
Now, those numbers might not be near the 2.5 million we are predicting now. But, think of how new the idea of a RPG was on the console at the time. There was Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest as you pointed out, then there were the imitators. But in 2003 when the Xbox had so few consoles sold it was hitting 600k. Now, with an install base of over 6 million in the US, you can count on that number at least tripling. But, they have won awards at E3 and other gaming expos, they have impressed a lot of gamers, it is just another one of the very highly anticipated games of the year, and on top of that I am sure it will have a very aggressive ad campaign.
As I stated before, I am not saying this game is going to come out and be 10/10. But I am expecting it to reach at least 9/10 (editor's choice). And I am not saying for sure it will reach 3 million life sales, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised with the hype it has been getting by the media.
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Isn't the Elder Scrolls series more known to the PC community? And didn't the 360 version come out at the same time as the PC version?
The way I see it is that Bioware has made a market on the Xbox with their previous titles, and because this game will be exclusively be released on the Xbox 360 (at least for launch), the lifetime sales can reach the predicted price.
And if we are going to use history to plan the future, you can look back and see that KOTOR (made by Bioware as well) set a sales record for the original Xbox of selling 250k in 4 days. This was of course back in July of 2003. Another report I found on IGN says it continued to soar to 600k by October of the same year. This was of course before it had a chance to hit Platinum where it sold more.
Now, those numbers might not be near the 2.5 million we are predicting now. But, think of how new the idea of a RPG was on the console at the time. There was Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest as you pointed out, then there were the imitators. But in 2003 when the Xbox had so few consoles sold it was hitting 600k. Now, with an install base of over 6 million in the US, you can count on that number at least tripling. But, they have won awards at E3 and other gaming expos, they have impressed a lot of gamers, it is just another one of the very highly anticipated games of the year, and on top of that I am sure it will have a very aggressive ad campaign.
As I stated before, I am not saying this game is going to come out and be 10/10. But I am expecting it to reach at least 9/10 (editor's choice). And I am not saying for sure it will reach 3 million life sales, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised with the hype it has been getting by the media.