Comments on: Well, How Did Persona 4 And Devil Survivor Sell?

By: dat_ass

dat_ass — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:18:33 +0000

HURRR DURRR WEEABOO FIGHT HURRRRRRRR…

By: dat_ass

dat_ass — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:18:33 +0000

HURRR DURRR WEEABOO FIGHT HURRRRRRRR…

By: Titanis

Titanis — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:31:56 +0000

Apparently you dislike games that are actually fun…

By: CleruTesh

CleruTesh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:08:13 +0000

No offense, but I feel I may have to take back my theory that you are, in fact, "well-intentioned".
While I disagree with censorship on standard Voltairian principle, I do sympathize with the desire to remove negativity.
However, if you would like to censor comments, based NOT on their spitefulness, but, rather, on whether or not you agree with their philosophy on economic principles, and how that relates to their games of preference...
Well then, good sir, you have perhaps become a textbook example of why I feel that censorship is a BAD idea.
And for the record, I say that as a huge fan of P3 and P4.

"Though I disagree with what you say, I would defend to my death your right to say it" -Voltaire

By: TheRootBeerKing

TheRootBeerKing — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:58:44 +0000

Man Persona 4 should have done WAAAAY better than that. For every copy Valkyria Chronicles sold, they too should have sold a copy, haha. I mean Persona 4 is right up there in the Valkyria Chronicles level of awesomeness.

By: Tristan H

Tristan H — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:22:49 +0000

Alrighty, lets hope PERSONA PSP did that well here, we could use more PERSONA on the PSP in the US

By: jarrodand

jarrodand — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:03:25 +0000

It wouldn't be the first time. Off the top of my head, NPD also reported Tales of Symphonia to have sold more in the US than Namco reported shipping.

Atlus isn't being modest either, these are actually their shipment figures.

By: jarrodand

jarrodand — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:01:03 +0000

NPD also tracks Canada separately.

By: malek86

malek86 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:15:49 +0000

What about DS2's western numbers?

Actually, scratch that, what about a PAL release?

By: manga

manga — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:00:11 +0000

Probably yes.

I don´t know how Gamefly did it with the release since I bought mine online from VG+. Or maybe it was Rosenqueen.

Torrents were used though. Not by me but I do imagine that a lot of people used that way to get their hands on P4. Which is a shame and yes, I can see why they didn´t reach their goal.

Theories are just fine and dandy, Mine is also a theory to why it wouldn´t sell the wanted amount.

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:32:57 +0000

…you're right. I'm an idiot. Sorry, brain fart.

By: Hello_Hello

Hello_Hello — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:14:05 +0000

That and a lot of people were expecting a P4 FES release at some point, and were a little sceptical when Atlus U.S.A. promised there wouldn't be one when they have absolutely zero control over what games their parent company decides to make.

By: jj984jj

jj984jj — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:55:45 +0000

I don't think companies pay all that money for NPD data to find out what they already know, it's definitely sold. Perhaps they just overestimated missing retailers like Wal-Mart, or Atlus is being modest.

By: jj984jj

jj984jj — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:53:51 +0000

According to NPD it ended up doing a lot better by the end of 2008, at least double that combined, so that's probably why they expected more out of Persona 4.

By: denpanosekai

denpanosekai — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:31:59 +0000

Couldn't care less about the weeaboo diatribe, doesn't faze me. What I don't appreciate is the hypocrisy behind wanting to have a cake and eat it too. Wishing Atlus games to underperform both in Japan and the US, so they'd go “back” to their roots? That's not just wishful thinking, it's plain ridiculous.

Also “likes” don't accumulate and I'm probably one of the only readers who uses it. Just a leftover from my slashdot days, hoping the negatively rated comments get hidden below a certain threshold.