Lost Odyssey: 40k in First day sales in Japan/ Uncharted: 7k

[Cuddly Knife]

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Xbox 360's Lost Odyssey Sells 40k in First day sales in Japan while Uncharted for PS3 sells 7k

An impressive first day sales for Xbox 360's Exclusive title Lost Odyssey.

Else where No More Heroes did not sell to expectations with only 10k sold and Uncharted in with 7k.

Tales of Innocence (DS) : about 75k (About 50% of shipments)

Everbody's Golf Portable 2 (PSP) : about 40k

Lost Odyssey (360) : about 40k (About 50% of shipments)

PowerPro-kun Pocket 10 (DS) : about 20k

Yuusya no Kuse ni Namaiki da (PSP) : about 15k

Gintama: Gintama Quest (DS) : about 15k

No More Heroes (Wii) : about 10k

SILENT HILL ZERO (PSP) : about 10k

Virtua Fighter 5 Live Arena (360) : about 10k

Uncharted (PS3) : about 7k

Yakuza 2 (cheap edition) (PS2) : about 7k

I don't know if this is correct. It seems like a screw-up that Uncharted only sold 7k. And BUMMER about No More Heroes. Gamers are gonna drive Suda the way of Lorne Lanning.

[ilnadmy]

Well Uncharted isn't really a Japanese-style game, so I'm not surprised it didn't sell too much in Japan on the first day.

[Gamer From '78]

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I don't know if this is correct. It seems like a screw-up that Uncharted only sold 7k. And BUMMER about No More Heroes. Gamers are gonna drive Suda the way of Lorne Lanning.

I looked up the Famitsu scores for Lost Odyssey. The four scores were "9, 8, 8, 8." Not really all that bad. That's an average rating of 8.25 which falls into what most people consider to be the "great" category or EGM would put it in the "Silver Award" category with an average like that.

It seems that the complaints about the game are long cutscenes, long load times and an ocassional drop in the framerate. I just don't get how reviewers can slobber all over the Final Fantasy titles that have these same issues (if you want to call them that) and give those crap games 10/10 or 100% scores.

I think reviewers are afraid to call out "revered" games for their faults. Hence, the reason that the bizzaro Metal Gear Solid games always score well, Halo 3 got higher marks than it deserved and every Final Fantasy that comes out gets drooled over. Nobody has the balls to call it out like it is. But who can blame them, when companies like Gamespot will can your ass for a bad review (cough, cough, Kane & Lynch). :mad:

[ilnadmy]

I was going to rebuke you by mentioning how Halo gets drooled over by reviewers when it's a stinking pile of turd, but you mentioned Halo 3 in your post so it's all good. I'd add Halo and Halo 2 to that list though.

[silversparrow]

IGN got their hands on Lost Odyssey, and according to their impressions (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/840/840035p1.html), there are lots of graphical problems with the game. The gameplay mechanics seem fine though. Here's what they said about the game's performance:

It seems that one year of extra development above last year's demo may not have been enough. The final game opens up exactly as the demo does, with Kaim in the middle of a fierce battle. One year later, and this sequence is still impressive-enough to sell someone on a 360. But you'll still have to stop playing right after the meteor strike and before you start taking full control of Kaim, because like the demo, the final game engine starts falling apart right there.

In the six hours that I've played so far, Lost Odyssey has been a technical mess, with framerate problems in just about every cinema and on most maps, an animation system that looks like it was ported straight from a PS2 engine, and frequent, inconsistent load times accompanied by visual stuttering as new data loads in.

Although it came from a different developer and used a different engine (Lost Odyssey uses the Unreal Engine 3), Blue Dragon had many of these problems when it made it out to Japan just in time for Christmas last year. I presume Mistwalker and developer Feel Plus were pressured into a release before all the kinks could be worked out.

Now I'm not going to do a GF '78 style rant about how this is the fault of the Xbox 360 hardware (like he does with the PS3), nor am I going to bash Mistwalker. It seems though that everybody licensing the Unreal Engine 3.0 is having problems with it. That includes 2K Games, Bioware, Silicon Knights and now Mistwalker. The only dev not having any problems with the engine is Epic themselves. A strong case can be made here that they are not supplying their clients with the proper tools.

[Cuddly Knife]

I agree, sparrow. Everyone and their mother can't seem to run Unreal right. There was Vegas, which was sweet, but I don't think that was U3. An older version, perhaps?

Also, don't forget about the craptacular Fatal Inertia by Koei. That one used U3 also.

[folken001]

Well, Mistwalker isn't exactly known for their programming talents.

I saw the trailer of this game and it looks pretty crappy. It's like a half assed Square Enix project. Xbots are hyping these jp games way too much. In the end, they get the opposite result. First blue dragon and now this.

[Glockstar]

The only dev not having any problems with the engine is Epic themselves. A strong case can be made here that they are not supplying their clients with the proper tools.

Ohhh-kay, now you're starting to sound like Silicon Knights.

[ilnadmy]

A strong case can be made here that they are not supplying their clients with the proper tools.

Or that their clients are idiots who can't use the tools properly.

Honestly, we're in no position to judge which is true.

[Tappy_Tibbons]

Not a game I'd care for at all really. Did well for a 360 game in Japan

[Mochan]

Is it really a screw up? Lost Odyssey seems like the kind of title that would sell a lot in Japan, Uncharted the exact opposite.



And yeah UE3 sucks! Bwah!

I agree, sparrow. Everyone and their mother can't seem to run Unreal right. There was Vegas, which was sweet, but I don't think that was U3. An older version, perhaps?

DTM mentioned that Vegas wasn't done on UE3, which surprised me too. Given what we're seeing, I think that makes sense -- it's like the only non-Epic UE3 game that didn't have technical issues.

[NEO-360]

Well, Mistwalker isn't exactly known for their programming talents.

I saw the trailer of this game and it looks pretty crappy. It's like a half assed Square Enix project. Xbots are hyping these jp games way too much. In the end, they get the opposite result. First blue dragon and now this.

Oh thats right they copied from the 360 and had their own special version of the same game. Typical. Blue Dragon wasnt a bad game. It just wasnt a real popular one either. We wont know how good or how bad Lost Odyssey is until it comes stateside. Till then I find it funny as hell that an RPG on the 360 outsold an action-adventure title on the PS3 in Japan. Thats good stuff.:D

[Gadfly2317]

Oh thats right they copied from the 360 and had their own special version of the same game. Typical. Blue Dragon wasnt a bad game. It just wasnt a real popular one either. We wont know how good or how bad Lost Odyssey is until it comes stateside. Till then I find it funny as hell that an RPG on the 360 outsold an action-adventure title on the PS3 in Japan. Thats good stuff.:D

Typically, the RPG's don't show up until a consoles second year; the 360 didn't have a bunch of RPG's its first year.

A first year RPG on Ps3 that looks pretty good is Folklore; I don't like RPG's that much if they are the formulaic turn based kind, but Folklore's action RPG gameplay was pretty cool in the demo, and the art design is really appealing.

I'm all about the Wii at the moment though. Super Mario Galaxy, I'm hooked. Just finished the main story, but its so good I'm going to go ahead and see how many of the other stars I can collect. Most of the time, by the time I get to the end of a game I'm glad its done, but not this one. It's so good I'll probably actually take a break from console gaming when I'm done.

[ilnadmy]

Oh thats right they copied from the 360 and had their own special version of the same game. Typical. Blue Dragon wasnt a bad game. It just wasnt a real popular one either. We wont know how good or how bad Lost Odyssey is until it comes stateside. Till then I find it funny as hell that an RPG on the 360 outsold an action-adventure title on the PS3 in Japan. Thats good stuff.:D

Blue Dragon wasn't a bad game? You're the idiot that keeps saying games are good because they sell well and score highly. Blue Dragon got crapped on both in the reviews and in the sales departments. And your excuse? "It wasn't popular."

Well then I'll just go ahead and say The Bouncer wasn't a bad game. It just wasn't popular. And you can't respond by saying that it WAS a bad game, because that means you're admitting that Blue Dragon is a craptacular game too.