Trauma Center: Second Opinion has dropped to 20,500 copies sold in February, for a total of 172,000 copies (VGcharts). This stock could probably drop a bit more.
VGcharts shows Trauma Room: Second Opinion sold 31,750 copies in January in North America, for a total of 151,500 in North America. Combine this with the 18,000 sold in Japan, this is still a pretty good shorting opportunity.
Trauma Center sold 73,250 copies in December for a total of 119,250 copies in North America. That is less than 2x the November sales so it appears the game sales are slowing down. Japanese sales appear very weak. I think this game will be lucky to top out around 250k worldwide.
Maybe people do not know that this is only a upgrade of the DS version. Because it sure can't be the Japanese numbers only 15,750 copies were sold there.
I don't know what is going on with the buying here, the stock was going down because the sales were poor. Only 48,000 copies sold in November and then dropped from VGcharts in December. Any buyers want to explain what they are thinking?
Although the Wii just came out, I don't think this game's sales growth can be maintained to sell 693K copies. The game only sold 48,000 copies in November. It needs to sell another 14x to make that...that ratio seems too high to me, even if growing Wii supply puts many more consoles into customer hands. This is like a P/E ratio in the stock world, and I think a 14x of launch month is too high.
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