Here are some numbers...

[sora4sky]

Well, we all now that birth by sleep is big news in the last 2 days, guess WHAT it has big numbers too....

So birth by sleep sold 468.000 units in its debut, pretty good i you ask me.....

 

[Suzuku]

Link to source pls. If it's true then it had the biggest opening of any PSP game, and that number probably doesn't even include the PSP bundles, which sold out on day one.

 

[Dogenzaka]

If true, it just barely goes over what my estimate was (300,000-400,000).

Good job Square-Enix.

It'll easily go over a million in a few months, I see, which is quite impressive considering the top-selling PSP title only has 900,000 sales.

 

[Monkey]

It'll easily go over a million in a few months, I see, which is quite impressive considering the top-selling PSP title only has 900,000 sales.

Monster hunter says hai.

I'd like a source for this btw, phenominal sales, outdid Days if I'm not mistaken, but I don't see this information anywhere else.

 

[tirich91]

if this is true...then this will go against so many odds. 358 over 2 days has a little over half a million units sold world wide. This game is at about already 1/3 of that.. I think world wide sales will push 2 million...maybe 2.5 million.

 

[Monkey]

if this is true...then this will go against so many odds. 358 over 2 days has a little over half a million units sold world wide. This game is at about already 1/3 of that.. I think world wide sales will push 2 million...maybe 2.5 million.

You are extremely extremely wrong.

Days first day sales in just Japan was 291,000 copies, and it total sold 571,981 units in Japan alone. It has also sold 360,000 units in North America as of October 2009, meaning it has surpassed 500,000 in America as well. No data is available in Europe, but it should be trending just a little bit lower in Europe, meaning Days has sold about 1.5 Million worldwide.

If you use ratios and hope for the best, if BBS sold 468,000 units in Japan, that likely means it will hit around 900,000 units in Japan, on track with Crisis Core and Dissidia, so its definitly in the correct realm of possibility. In the states however, there is no telling how it will fare. While Crisis Core sold over 500,000 in both North America and Europe, Dissidia only sold 200,000 units in America, but you can thank a year long delay and a huge amout of piracy for that (Square Enix should not repeat the delay mistake again, why wait a year when you can pirate the Japanese version).

All in all, if we take into account piracy, Birth by Sleep will outsell Days, but likely just barely hit two million. If my piracy fear does not exist, it can easily surpass 2.5 million.

 

[*~BlackCat~*]

its no surprise BBS did that well but i'm still glad that it got that many sales

 

[crazzyBRY]

that's more than the dissidia sales in america total of 1 year xD

 

[Reverie]

I expected this. BBS has got to be the most successful installment so far.

 

[Suzuku]

I expected this. BBS has got to be the most successful installment so far.

KHII sold over a million copes in it's first week.

 

[Dogenzaka]

If my piracy fear does not exist, it can easily surpass 2.5 million.

Well as of this moment no one can really pirate BbS.

It would appear that, until the hacking community releases a new homebrew app that will patch all the future PSP games to have the water-tight security BbS has, PSP piracy will be very difficult in the future.

 

[tirich91]

You are extremely extremely wrong.

Days first day sales in just Japan was 291,000 copies, and it total sold 571,981 units in Japan alone. It has also sold 360,000 units in North America as of October 2009, meaning it has surpassed 500,000 in America as well. No data is available in Europe, but it should be trending just a little bit lower in Europe, meaning Days has sold about 1.5 Million worldwide.

If you use ratios and hope for the best, if BBS sold 468,000 units in Japan, that likely means it will hit around 900,000 units in Japan, on track with Crisis Core and Dissidia, so its definitly in the correct realm of possibility. In the states however, there is no telling how it will fare. While Crisis Core sold over 500,000 in both North America and Europe, Dissidia only sold 200,000 units in America, but you can thank a year long delay and a huge amout of piracy for that (Square Enix should not repeat the delay mistake again, why wait a year when you can pirate the Japanese version).

All in all, if we take into account piracy, Birth by Sleep will outsell Days, but likely just barely hit two million. If my piracy fear does not exist, it can easily surpass 2.5 million.

woops, i made a mistake. I meant to say that days sold a little ove 1 and a half million. that is why i said that BBS has already sold nearly 1/3 of that.

 

[Monkey]

woops, i made a mistake. I meant to say that days sold a little ove 1 and a half million. that is why i said that BBS has already sold nearly 1/3 of that.

sweet, ya, your end estimates were the same as mine i was wondering why your numbers were off

and thats a good thing dogen.

 

[XIII Nobodies]

Here's a source. Not sure if it's reliable but...

The Japan Preview: 1/10 Edition (Kingdom Hearts PSP, HW down) on VGChartz.com

 

[Monkey]

ahhh, KHI does not recognize vgchartz as a legitimate website =(

 

[Suzuku]

Seriously, someone link me to where he got that 468,000 number.

 

[Kiwi +]

well that's to be expected..Nice to see it selling a lot.

 

[sora4sky]

Sorry guys for not answering sooner but i had to go to sleep....anyway the source i find this is the same one XIII NOBODIES said.....

 

[Keyblade-War]

BBS is going to sell alot it seems....nomura is getting paid.

 

[Soxas]

well its obvious this would happen.people have been waiting 4 years to actually know who those people were in that secret ending and also this could be the best kh game so far.could be in my opinion atleast.