The first game has currently sold 6.3 million (Vgchartz need to adjust the PS3 numbers in Japan). It'll probably chug along to 7 million eventually.

Final Fantasy X-2 sold 5.2 million can XIII-2 surpass those sales?

Its obviously not gonna sell as well as the original game and 5 million may be pushing it, the reception on the game was pretty mixed so alot of XIII owners probably wont buy it. However XIII-2 could possibly be better than the original if they fix how linear it is, Square already knows people had a problem with that so it could be more open world like and thus get a better reception.

So itd need to sell around 1.5 million on the Xbox 360 and 3.8 million on PS3 lifetime to sell 5.3 million surpassing X-2.

it looks dim

in holiday season with so much competition and when all the shooters are released

plus it isn't the first FF this generation so the hype is less

plus FF13 wasn't the most popular FF

but PS3 advertising this time around(last time it was 360 exclusive) could help

plus this generation,games seem to sell way more than usual

i think it will cross 5m but won't cross FF13's sales,save that for FF13 VERSUS

also FF13VERSUS will remain exclusive as Square will get to know that they didn't sell more by putting it on two platforms

I dont see FFvsXIII passing FFXIII, 6 million tops for that.

Wait. So you think FFvXIII will stay exlusive? and it will outsell XIII?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Two pretty controversial claims right there.

OT - I think it's a toss up. On the one hand it's very story driven so it's gonna be hard to pull in people who didn't play XIII. On the other hand, Square could address peoples issues and achieve universal acclaim with this game. If they do that, they will be able to pass X-2 easily.

i didn't say it will definetly but has a chance.

sometimes if a game is really good game(thats how its looking right now) backed by a big franchises name(FINAL FANTASY) and exlcusive(which draws alot of ttention) plus marketing(sony will do alot as its one of the few big exclusives this generation,also they didn't get to advertise FF13 as it was 360 exclusive advertising)

then a game can sell big time

Well FF10-2 was substantially less then FF10. despite FF10 being a critically acclaimed game. and being the 2nd best selling FF in the series.

FF13 is hardly in the same boat and FF13 has not achieved the same critical or commerical success of FF10. in fact critically it has done the opposite.

i think its aliened longtime fans and will likely not do over 2mil.

if we look at Europe the fans have been unforgiving in sales, with FF10-2 and FF9 not topping 1 mil in the region. i think FF13-2 will not be successful there, same goes for Japan where the fans seem to have declined since FF12. FF13 hasnt toped 2mil in the region, doubt FF13-2 can top 1.5 even 1mil  in Japan. doubt it will do well in the US either.

not to mention a sequel to an RPG  is not likely to bring in new fans, even if the RPG sequel is the highest rated game of the year, eg Mass Effect 2. and FF13-2 will have to have reviews of that magnitude for people to want to buy it. even then its unlikely to bring in new fans, looking at the sales of Mass Effect 2. so imo things are looking very grim for the sequel.

2.5 million on PS3 and 900k on Xbox360 are my predictions. So no, it won't outsell X-2.

I sincerely doubt it, and frankly I hope it comepletely bombs so sick of square releasing crap

i think it has a little chance to doing that...

because if quality of game will be like this:  FF X >>> FF X-2

                                                                      FF XIII-2 >>> FF XIII

then it will maybe reach 5 millions...