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Stanislav.Ten on 18 April 2010
Solid_Snake4RD said:
Stanislav.Ten said:

How can you say that the sales are poor of XIII it's only been out for a little more than a month, the LT is nowhere near and with appropriate price cuts they can bring in some more sales some £5 from the launching price and according to most fans it is the most abysmal FF game they have ever played. Not comparing it to VII would be a good start, I never got into FF but a friend of mine is like a fanatic, he got XIII on launch and he told me that the game was pretty crap - niche story, linear, not much RPG element left to it, and he liked the XII and X.

Word of mouth - chances are those who brought it have told their mates how crap the game was, it spread and the appeal died down, until the price hits sub 20 the sales will probably remain stale in comparison with other releases.

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Nightwish224 on 18 April 2010

Regardless of the sales, I don't think majority of the people on this site planned to praise 360 for FFXIII anyway. I think it has sold damn well for it formerly being a known Sony franchise. It's still the post E3 2008 anger in them.



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homer on 18 April 2010


This is how I feel.

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Moren on 18 April 2010

ff13 for 360 was heavily advertised, unluckly the ff fanbase was on ps3, I still believe it did well though



Stanislav.Ten on 18 April 2010
homer said:


This is how I feel.

That was pretty lol



 

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Qays on 18 April 2010
tjallern said:

You know thelifatree, あなたが馬鹿だと思います。is an insult!! haha, only joking ^^

However, it should be alarming for SE that FFXIII shows a decline in interest for the FF series. I thought this game was supposed to revive the series from what "half of the FF fanbase" saw as "two huge disappointments (FFXI and FFXII)". As we can see by the sales, this will be the worst selling FF game debuting on it's generations platforms. Both FFVII and FFX outsold/will outsell it by a lot. The game had major hype and many saw it as the savior of the FF series. Also, after closely witnessing how the game sold in Japan (A LOT of copies returned in many stores. I mean A LOT. In late December - January I saw more used copies of FFXIII than any other game I have ever witnessed in game stores in Tokyo. People were returning this game like crazy over in Japan. In addition, it's legs have completely been cut of. I mean, it sold 895 copies in Japan this week. When only 1.9 million people out of 5 million console owners have bought the game, one should expect better sales than 895 copies in it's 17th week), I think there has been a lot of disappointed FFXIII buyers out there. I know they have The Best- versions of these games and that they sold a lot less than FFXIII overall, but MGS4 (96th week) sold 2044 copies, Demon's Souls (62nd week) sold 2474 copies and Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (59th week) sold 2249 copies. That is not good for FF as a series, that a main game sees legs of 895 copies sold in it's 17th week in Japan. That means that out of all the thousands of new PS3 sold every week in Japan, almost no one buys FFXIII at all when they pick up a system...

I have never been a FF fanatic, but I was looking into getting this game. I have been trying to get into the FF series lately with PSP remakes and PS1/PS2 classics, and when me and my friend bought our PS3s, one of the games we were looking forward to was FFXIII. After following SE the last couple of years though and following FFXIII closely, I can't say that I want to buy this game at all. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the game and there has been cuts in this game, the biggest cut being the exploration in the game. I don't care for what reason, but cuts have been made. And the rumors surrounding these "cuts" may make it into the game through DLC are not making me want this game any more than I already do.

I would actually say that overall, FFXIII is a flop. Yeah, the game has sold a lot of copies, but people buy a lot of games this generation and there are a lot of people who just, you know, "jump the gun" and buy a game before they know if it's any good at all. Final Fantasy has the power to sell games on the brand name alone and this might make a lot of people "jump the gun". That's why we see many copies returned and awful legs in, especially Japan. Let's see how it's legs will be like, only then we can determine if the game is a "flop" or not.

 

edit: about many returned copies in Japan and horrible legs: yes I know Japan is famous for it's huge 2nd hand market, but still 895 copies in a game's 17th week in the HOMELAND of JRPGs is just horrible.

edit2: Oh, and OP is far away from funny... If this was anyone but Rol, let's say a normal forum member like myself with a low post count, they would be banned for a long, long, long time for flaming and trolling another member of the forum, etc, etc, etc no matter if it was a joke or not. Even if he wrote a "disclaimer" in the OP, the whole point of this thread is to get attention, to get other forum members riled up and to get some VG$ or whatever you guys collect... You are very inconsistent with your banning on this site. I mean, you ban people for speaking their mind with a little bit of so-called "hard-criticism", basically criticism at all against certain subjects (RROD, YLOD, Sony, 360 failure rates, Nintendo's problem with 3rd party/mature games, Nintendo, 360, MS, or whatever) or just the cold hard truth, while you let "elite trollers" like this keep luring people into flaming, making them get banned for it. I'm almost expecting to get banned for calling this out...

Thanks for the post, very enlightening to see that disappointment with the game isn't just confined to the West. I honestly don't understand how a company as big and important as Squenix can so thoroughly underestimate their fans - do they think the millions upon millions of people who have been loyally buying Final Fantasy for the last decade and a half have been under the misconception that it was a rails shooter or something? People like RPGs! It's so baffling to me that Squenix has decided that they don't.



FantasySky on 18 April 2010
Carl2291 said:
I disagree.

Final Fantasy XIII on the 360 has already outsold a huge JRPG franchise on the PS3 - Valkyria Chronicles.

It blew past the PS3's other big exclusive JRPG, White Knight Chronicles.

If anything, this proves that Square Enix should make Final Fantasy Versus XIII an Xbox 360 exclusive in the West. Just because Microsoft are willing to advertise the game for them, while we see Sony persuing other goals, like copying Nintendo. When the time comes for Versus XIII to be released in the West, Sony wont care about it because GT5 will also be releasing in the same Summer of '11. Microsoft will show love for the franchise. Love that Sony never could.

Agito XIII will also be a Zune HD Exclusive.

You cannot deny my irrefutable factual evidence.

lol wtf. no matter how much advertising they dd versus 13 would hav 0% chance (and its not often i say this) of reaching the sales it would on ps3. ffxiii was advertised like crazy as on 360 and 0 ads for ps3 and the ps3 vertion still sold Alot more



Bullet100000 on 18 April 2010

Ahh man CGI-Quality spoiled the fun for everyone.



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Zargeras on 18 April 2010

this whole thread was a joke for ppl that still havent got it, !, read slower next time and you might just get more out of the text!



Ghazi4 on 18 April 2010
xxmob said:

i dont know i guess you could say its a flop, back in the day FF games were all i could here but now its all about the action fps like lets blow this up, oh did you see that guy die, we should bomb that, its like shooters are the only games they can talk about. i've never head anyone really talk about ff games any more

 




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