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The Xbox Man on 23 May 2010

2 people on vgchartz have tried to convince me the game has failed in sales. Am i wrong in believing its sold well?



    
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kingofwale on 23 May 2010

for the quality of the game, it sold well. Translation: it sold purely on brand name.... and hence failed to expand the market.

remember the key word: QUALITY.

I shall not mention the possible cause of such lack of "quality", it is for another time, another thread.



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AkibaFan on 23 May 2010

wh told u it sold bad?

@kingofwale

it ddnt sell only on brnd name if it hs outsold th last 2 big ones (ffx-2 & almst ffxii)



Pristine20 on 23 May 2010

Well, it sold as expected IMO...not greatly or poorly.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 23 May 2010

It's sales were good, not great for the franchise.

Like Kingowhale said: it didn't expand the market.



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AkibaFan on 23 May 2010

it is a flop in jpn (wrst selling)

massive success in west like i hve sed before. (one ov th best selling)



dtewi on 23 May 2010
kingofwale said:

for the quality of the game, it sold well. Translation: it sold purely on brand name.... and hence failed to expand the market.

remember the key word: QUALITY.

I shall not mention the possible cause of such lack of "quality", it is for another time, another thread.

I'm getting tired of all of you complaining about how FF13 sucked because of the 360.

Shut up.



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rapsuperstar31 on 23 May 2010

While I think it sold quite well for what it is, I do think the game will ultimately hurt future Final Fantasy games, as the game was fun but not a must buy and if future games are the same way Final Fantasy will not sell based off of brand recognition any more!



A203D on 23 May 2010

We did discuss this a bit on the other thread, and i still think the EU sales are amazing. it only needs about 0.4 - 0.5 mil to reach FF10 sales in the EU. and thats less than half of whats its already sold in Europe (in 10 weeks), so its on the way to becoming the 2nd best selling FF in Europe (maybe more).

And it has about 1 mil to go in the US to reach FF10. so i would say if theres enough to carry it until next year, it will be the second best selling FF in the US and EU. if the legs can hold up as well as other popular games (Assassin's Creed, Gran Turismo etc), it could reach even higher numbers. but it has been the fastest selling FF ever, which is also really good news.

so at the moment its a success i think, but we need to wait a few more months to see if it can sell about a mil more in US and EU to be a phenominal success. but i would also agree with Akibafan, that the JP sales are disspointing, even worst than FF6.



radha on 23 May 2010
kingofwale said:

for the quality of the game, it sold well. Translation: it sold purely on brand name.... and hence failed to expand the market.

remember the key word: QUALITY.

I shall not mention the possible cause of such lack of "quality", it is for another time, another thread.

This, also they lost a HUGE share in the japanesse market. this game is on track of selling sell 10-15% more than FFXII WW and that one is consirered a failure.



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