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Dragon Ball Xenoverse ships 1.5 million units WW
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Barack Lesnar
Banned
Damn I want hair like that 
Far Cry 4 is quite a bit more expensive, dropped of the top sellers list more quickly and it's not a Steam exclusive.
Lol just brilliant.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Well deserved, hopefully it can reach 2 million sold.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
* It may be more expensive but it's a much more well known franchise.
* What percentage do you honestly think buy directly through Uplay? Less than 5%?
If you don't want to use Far Cry 4 for whatever reason, let's use another one:
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance which was high on the charts for a long time has sold 440k after 14 months on the market.
Every single store that sells it but Steam gives you a Uplay code(origin included). That plus retail sales will easily mean at least other 300 000 sales that are not counted by Steam.
The Dragonball franchise is freaking huge.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
See my edit, I added another one.
Half of the all-time peak, late port.
Wouldn't buy.What if Xenoverse 2 is also Budokai 4?
Xenoverse > Budokai Tenkaichi series > Budokai series > rest
Barack Lesnar
Banned
What do you mean by half of the all time peak?
The fact that it was a late port is irrelevant because it was at or near the top of the charts for a long time and it was only like $30. What's your answer for that?
Obviously I meant gaming franchise. Is it that difficult to come to that conclusion?
It had half of the concurrent players.
The fact that it was a late port isn't irrelevant in the slightest.
Spainkiller
the man who sold the world
Let's be honest here: a lot of this is thanks to the popularity of TFS' Abridged series.
No hard to understand, this is a gaming talk.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I don't get your concurrent players thing. What do you mean?
Was Revengeance at the top or near the top of the charts for a significant amount of time? The answer to that question is what matters because you pointed out earlier how Xenoverse has been on the charts for a long time. That's why the late port is irrelevant in this sales discussion.
Revengeance was at the top of the charts for a significant amount of time and has sold 440k in 14 months according to Ars.
Led_Zeppelin
Member
I hope they take this success and build the game around this and iterate to make it better and not just take everything down give the game to other dev and rebuild everything from scraps again. Please Bandai stop destroying your own success.
Abilidebob
Member
Xenoverse was #1 since a few days BEFORE release, and was still #1 for pretty much the entire week. It's been fluctuating between the top 3 positions for a while, and pretty much only last week that it stopped being that high, but it's still in the top10.
I honestly got amazed when I saw it wasn't budging from the top spot.
Pretty amazing that he managed to get his hair like that, didn't think it was possible.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
Happily 1 of them and loving the game
Most sidequests have 1-3 additional areas and there are some invisible items you can find with your scouter in each area, but don't get fooled by that - this is pretty much a pure fighter.
Neither. It's a brawler with PvP. Or a co-op lobby action game with RPG elements, with mission structure similar to MonHun, Phantasy Star Online, or Destiny. You level up, get loot, upgrade your customizable character. Once in a while take a story mission to unlock more standard missions if you're good enough or your character's strong enough to beat it.
Abilidebob
Member
Was it like that?
I remember Revengeance getting into the top 3 when the pre-orders were up(at the Winter sale) for a day, then going back at top 3 when the game came out, but only for a day too.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I specifically remember reading multiple posts commenting on how well it was doing on the charts and how long it stayed up there.
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Abilidebob
Member
I remember the posts commenting on how it was beating other popular games that were at 50-80% sale when the pre-orders were up. Not that it had some "longevity" in the top spots.
Awesome.
Started playing DBZ games on a friend's modded PS1.
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I still have my copy of this! Such a great game although this might just be nostalgia.
NeonZ
Member
There's a central Hub, a leveling and stat system, and you can explore the fighting areas for items and extra battles... However, it's pretty much a fighting game.
Philtastic
Member
I have just over 70 hours in this game already, the large majority of it played single player. I would say that it's like a 3rd person Super Smash Brothers featuring Dragon Ball and custom characters with loot-grind elements of Destiny: the game is not technically challenging to pull off moves so anyone can jump in and enjoy flashy attacks and zooming/teleporting around but, if you really learn the fighting system, it's pretty deep. You have basic RPG stat and level progression for your custom character, and you unlock costumes and many of the better skills by doing missions. The main complaints I see about the game are that the RNG for much of the loot is terrible and that PvP can be pretty unbalanced.
It is quickly becoming one of my favourite games ever and I'm not even a huge Dragon Ball fan (have only watched DBZ and the Battle of the Gods movie).
It's definitely a very fun game that hits a lot of the right points for many people, basically it's much of what you really wanted in a DBZ game. Does it get everything right? Well no, there are things that can easily be improved and done better and in the sequel because we all know based on sales alone this will get a sequel hopefully they iron out some of the rough spots.
All in all it's a fun game that will inspire future DBZ games to come.
All in all it's a fun game that will inspire future DBZ games to come.
Awesome man. I wish still had a means to play this. I wonder if an emulator would even work, but you're right, very great game. Thinking about it makes me want to see what Xenoverse has to offer.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Xenoverse is a fun yet flawed brawler that could setup a decent foundation for a sequel. A second game could be really amazing with the right improvements.
Agreed!
Also, this number doesn't include digital sales right? I really want to know just how many copies this game has sold.
My guesstimate would be ~350-400k and I too find 600k to be extremely high.
Xenoverse did very well in all relevant platforms, it only shows that there are none that Bandai Namco should skip except for maybe last gen consoles for the sequel.
People were commenting it got to No.1, but it didn't stay up there for more than a day or so if I remember right, and it fell out of the top ten within a few days. Dragonball is definitely doing better than that, it stayed number 1 for over two weeks and still isn't out of the top 10.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Awesome.
Started playing DBZ games on a friend's modded PS1.
That was a really fun game
texhnolyze
Banned
Gunstar Ikari
Unconfirmed Member
What if Xenoverse 2 is also Budokai 4?
I would be there day one.
I couldn't give less of a damn about the games "playing like the show." Budokai 3 and Infinite World (and Super DBZ, as well) beat the crap out of the free-roam fighters.