I dunno, when's the last time this team launched a new big budget SRPG series? People are acting like there's no established associations or noted investment here, as if Valkria was some low budget effort from some no name developer. Considering the circumstances, this would be an unqualified bomb were it on PS2, I don't see why fumbling excuses are being continually made for it on PS3 (laying blame at near everything *but* the platform).
Yes, Valkyria's a new IP. But it had things going for it basically no other new IP in it's genre had in recent memory (barring maybe ASH, which at least had a shared established developer pedigree... kinda). This isn't an issue of genre, it's an issue of platform, a platform where basically everything but one game (DMC4) has had a similarly dissapointing performance...
It's following through about as well as D3 did actually (which was ~70k after 2 weeks iirc). I guess we'll avoid price collapse though, thanks to retail foresight.