Tryckser said: Sorry, but not in this case. Valkyria Chronicles was a Tactical game with an Anime artstyle, not like two of the best promotable things in the west. Click to expand...

The PS3 game didn't do that poorly in the west. We got an NPD leak in Jan 2009, which covered the game's first 4 months of sales, and it was sitting at 75k. The game was sold out at the time in most places (I had to wait 6 weeks to get a copy through Amazon in Feb 2009), so I wouldn't be surprised if it crawled towards 100k in the US. That's actually on par with a lot of JRPGs here, and better sales than most of the niche titles that companies like Atlus/XSEED/etc put out. Sega making the decision to switch the series to a handhold platform that was dying in the west is what did the series in as far as localization is concerned.