Fist of the North Star Musou Sends Tecmo Koei Stock Soaring
CEO expects a million sales in Japan. Overseas release planned as well.
Posted Oct 15, 2009 at 14:33, By Anoop Gantayat
Like the idea of Dynasty Warriors-style combat with Fist of the North Star characters? You're apparently not alone. Yesterday's announcement of Fist of the North Star Musou apparently sent Koei Tecmo Holdings stock soaring 17%. The stock closed at ¥784.
The Nihon Sangyou Shimbun (via Inside Games) attributed the stock jump to the manga to game conversion, noting that it indicated Koei's push for software outside of its primary historical-themed field.
I wonder if some of those investors were paying attention when the information leaked out from Famitsu the day before. Or back at TGS when Koei shared a teaser trailer that everyone figured out was Fist of the North Star Musou almost immediately.
Separately, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun has a report in which Tecmo Koei CEO Kenji Matsubara says that he expects the game to sell a million copies in Japan alone. This would be a major jump over past PS3 and Xbox 360 Dynasty Warriors product.
Overseas players can rest assured that the game is planned for release outside of Japan, the paper also reports.
Tecmo Koei Holdings CEO Kenji Matsubara delivers closing comments at yesterday's press conference.
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Reader Comments (showing 4 of 4)
Rockgamer @ 2009.10.15, 16:19
Well that's certainly good to hear. Now I can get excited for the game without having to worry about whether it's actually coming out here or not.
Also, I'm wondering how Dynasty Warriors Gundam fared in Japan. It also shied away from the historical-themed field, and it apparently did well enough to warrant a sequel, but they seem to expect the FotNS game to do even better than that.
Reno @ 2009.10.15, 17:01
Do we get our own Nana Tanimura with every copy purchased?
anoop @ 2009.10.15, 19:03
Yes. Yes we do.
lech @ 2009.10.16, 7:30
For the money they'll be asking per-copy for this, we better.