In just a few weeks, the hit JRPG "The Last Story" will finally hit the American shorelines, to the joy of many gamers. The 45- chapter epic, set in Lazulis Island, is from renouned JRPG developer Hironobu Sakaguchi, and has so far been greated with much critical acclaim.

But, how well will it sell in America? Will you buy it? It's launch is currently scheduled for the 10th July, and it'll be interesting to see just how well-recieved it is, and whether or not it'll sell just as well as Xenoblade.

For reference, here's Xenoblade's sales WW, and also TLS.

*The R.O.W First Weeks and 10 Weeks values may be incorredct due to not being released worldwide.

Looking at these trends, it would seem as though TLS will launch slightly higher than Xenoblade, I'd imagine the 150k area. However, the current pre-orders are much lower than Xenoblade's, so this may not be the case.

As far as LT is considered, I can see TLS hitting 350k in America. But what about you? Post below and vote in the poll!

Yes, I've played it, and it's a very good game! I don't know why the hype isn't there for it, though.

It's no Xenoblade, but it's certainly the one which had the most support from the campaign.

50k-70k FW in NA. 300k LT in NA.

Let's not forget that XSEED is planning a limited run.

Also you have the > and

Btw the current pre-orders are about 30k in the USA.

Xenoblade was at about 80k at the same point in time.

No the game isn't coming out in 2 weeks. It's been delayed to an unknown date but it's estimated to come out sometime in August.

But yeah I changed my prediction to 50k-70k. The fact that it's XSEED that is publishing the game and not Nintendo worries me a little on the advertisement aspect.

out of interest, what is XSEED like with advertising?

Nintendo did a pretty good job imo in Europe.  I don't remember any tv ads solely for the game, but we had this:

NoE also had Sakaguchi visit various European cities, giving Q&A sessions and generally promote the game; something that I don't remember happening with Miyamoto for Mario/Zelda or Sakurai for Brawl.

When I saw him about a week pre-release at BAFTA in London, he even signed my FFV Advance cartridge as well as the poster you see.

Well XSEED is too small of a company and doesn't have the fund to make TV commercials (at least they never did). For example they published Little King's Story and pretty much no one knew of the existence of the game outside of avid forum-goers.

It doesn't help that they already made it clear that the game would receive a limited print.

Didn't VGC alter the way they gain pre-order numbers though? Because people were complaining they were massively overtracking some games, and not others?

I swear I remember reading that. Remember; the Xenoblade pre-orders were more than their FW sales.

And Xenoblade had a limited print also. But it still sold well, and continues to meet demand, no? I don't think that'll be a problem.

@T-Tar- So jealous... ;)