KOTOR - 250,000 in first 4 days

zurich · Jul 26, 2003

I'm only going to highlight a few of them. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a title from LucasArts that shipped last week. In its first week, it sold 250,000 units. That's a four-day record for Xbox. This is a role-playing game. It's the first role-playing game we've had on the platform that's with a big franchise associated with it. And we think this is going to drive a lot of volume going through the holidays. It's getting game ratings over 90 percent, which happens in a very, very, very small number of titles.

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speech/FY03/BachFAM2003.mspx

If Brute Force sells more than KOTOR, heads will roll.

diarrhea_splatter · Jul 26, 2003

I like this game. I'm glad I spent money on it, too bad the prices for new games are 50 bucks.

chaphack · Jul 26, 2003

Impressive.

zurich · Jul 26, 2003

Hopefully it'll do a million, if not more.

thundermonkey · Jul 26, 2003

It's a quality Star Wars game.

Xbox fans have been needing one of them for a while. Now Sony has to get one some day.

wazoo · Jul 26, 2003

How many xbox in the US ?? 5M, so it is 5%, they can bo better before doing a PR.

Evil_Cloud · Jul 26, 2003

'Sold' is mostly shipped

-> look at enter the matrix, now it had sold 900.000... but only in 6 months it will have sold the shipped numbers.

Deepak · Jul 27, 2003

Didn't FFX-2 sold 1.5 millions on launch day itself (in Japan)??

zurich · Jul 27, 2003

Deepak said:
Didn't FFX-2 sold 1.5 millions on launch day itself (in Japan)??

*scratches head*

And your point is?

Blade · Jul 27, 2003

KOTOR is great, and deserves to be a top-seller on Xbox. It practically renewed my interest in Star Wars.

Hopefully Rogue Squadron III will be just as good.

Rodéric · Jul 27, 2003

Blade said:
KOTOR is great, and deserves to be a top-seller on Xbox. It practically renewed my interest in Star Wars.

Hopefully Rogue Squadron III will be just as good.

Not on the graphic side, I've yet to see screenshots even remotly closed to those of Rogue Squadron III...

Just noticed an 'oddity' in the movies (at least the first 3) light sabers beam do project shadows (not removed in the special edition), while they don't in this game...

chaphack · Jul 27, 2003

oh my oh me oh yey, Xbox has a good seller again? IT cannot be happening! Xbox population is so big yet the KOTOR so little in comparison, 250,000 during 4 days is no big deal, every games are doing that!!! Shoot! even FFX sold better in Japan, yes Japan, the country far away from US! To hell MS for flouting teh stupid PR.

zurich · Jul 27, 2003

Ingenu said:
Blade said:

KOTOR is great, and deserves to be a top-seller on Xbox. It practically renewed my interest in Star Wars.

Hopefully Rogue Squadron III will be just as good.

Click to expand...

Not on the graphic side, I've yet to see screenshots even remotly closed to those of Rogue Squadron III...

Just noticed an 'oddity' in the movies (at least the first 3) light sabers beam do project shadows (not removed in the special edition), while they don't in this game...

Well gee, KOTOR is an RPG, and RSIII is a tech-demo shooter. HMMM!

Blade · Jul 28, 2003

Zurich: FFX is also an RPG, and probably still one of the PS2's best looking games in some respects.

Personally, I feel that the only real flaw in KOTOR's graphics is the framerate. Who decided to cap it at 60fps instead of 30fps? There's no point, seeing as how KOTOR only manages 60fps a scant 10% of the time, if that..

They should've gone for 30fps.. the game would feel smoother. Rare made the same mistake with SFA.

linthat22 · Jul 28, 2003

This game is really fun, but I noticed that the dark side is easier than the light side.

Grall · Jul 28, 2003

zurich said:
Well gee, KOTOR is an RPG, and RSIII is a tech-demo shooter. HMMM!

Your point is...? Can't RPGs have good graphics, is that what you're saying?

Btw... Tech-demo? Doom3 is a tech-demo also perhaps? How about HL2? :?

*G*

zurich · Jul 28, 2003

Grall said:
zurich said:

Well gee, KOTOR is an RPG, and RSIII is a tech-demo shooter. HMMM!

Click to expand...

Your point is...? Can't RPGs have good graphics, is that what you're saying?

Btw... Tech-demo? Doom3 is a tech-demo also perhaps? How about HL2? :?

*G*

I just think comparing graphics between genres is silly. Its like comparing models in an FPS to fighters.

Zurich: FFX is also an RPG, and probably still one of the PS2's best looking games in some respects.

Oh I'm a big fan of FFX, but the only RPG in existence that could challenge/surpass FF sales stats is Dragon Warrior. I just took the comparison as slander, since Deepak already mentioned he's not a Star Wars fan.

chaphack · Jul 28, 2003

Do i sense that Zurich is getting "attack" by the Foolspack often these days? The result of speaking up for the big green machine lately? Guess a little objectivity is not warrant around by the pack.

notAFanB · Jul 28, 2003

chaphack said:
oh my oh me oh yey, Xbox has a good seller again? IT cannot be happening! Xbox population is so big yet the KOTOR so little in comparison, 250,000 during 4 days is no big deal, every games are doing that!!! Shoot! even FFX sold better in Japan, yes Japan, the country far away from US! To hell MS for flouting teh stupid PR.

I sorry, looks like it's doing fine thank you.

London Geezer · Jul 28, 2003

is 250.000 not good? sounds pretty good to me.... they probably made a profit already on the first day of release so where exactly is the problem?

of course, it's not FFX levels but hey thats another franchise in another country after all, a country that lives on FF and DQ games and water.. and noodles of course

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