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Ace Combat passes two major sales milestones

StarJet | April 21, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 Playstation Misc 
Namco's popular combat flight series Ace Combat has just beaten two major sales milestones almost at once. The milestones are : Ace Combat 5 passing the 1 million sales mark, and Ace Combat as a series passing the whopping 10 million sales mark. Pretty impressive, eh?
Namco’s premiere flight series has just broken a major gaming milestone with the announcement that Ace Combat 5 has passed the million sales mark, and the series as whole passed 10 million. That’s a mighty impressive feat for Namco, considering the amount of consolidation going on in the industry these days. The series, which first debuted on the original PlayStation console, has seen a number of sequels since its release which have received a wide range of review scores. Regardless of the score though, the games always managed to sell pretty well, which clearly explains the number of units Namco has been able to move. It also might help that the series has never really had much competition on any of the consoles it’s appeared on.

“Fueled by consistently entertaining and accessible gameplay as well as cutting-edge graphics, the series has remained a critical and commercial smash hit since its introduction in 1995. Debuting in Europe with Air Combat for the PSOne, the Ace Combat series spans eight releases across four platforms. The latest game in the Ace Combat series, Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, was released for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft in November 2007,” states the announcement press release.

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    LIVE Prophet 123 | April 21, 2008
    Awesome - its been my favorite flight simulator since its debut, and this is a great accomplishment that will make a great push for more sequels!
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    Krunal | April 21, 2008
    Funny how Ace Combat 6 hasn't even hit those figures... may have something to do with the console, and the fact that they moved away from the Playstation console onto the XBOX360 console. And I don't mean to say the XBOX360 is a bad console, it's just that most of the fans also happen to be Playstation buyers. Let's just hope that the next one will either be Multi-platform (which I have nothing against) or a PS3 exclusive.
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      TurMoiL911 | April 21, 2008
      I played Ace Combat 6 on the Xbox 360 and loved every minute of my rental. The CFA-44 is probably the cheapest plane I've ever seen, but is equally awesome.

      Definitely have to buy it once it's cheaper.
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      Armed Rebel | April 23, 2008
      Well Ace Combat 5 came out before Ace Combat 6 so it's not really "funny" at all.

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