Good post Zim!

Of course XIII-2 did not bomb in terms of sales.
But compared to the FF franchise you can see interest is falling with each new FF.

Kinda getting tire of these negative Final Fantasy XIII-2 thread. Personally I'm enjoying this game more then any other JRPGs release this gen on home console and I have played 75% of them out there.

What an awful thread. The game sells over a million copies in its first week and is showing consistent sales in Japan and somehow that makes it a bomb? And of course you just assume it has been overtracked in America to fit your own viewpoint.

FF versus XIII to the rescue!

however FFXIII-2 is selling great on the ps3 just like FFXIII did

No offence OP, but didn't you make a thread a few months ago predicting that FF XIII-2 would do 2m LT (LTD means Life to date btw and most of the time the way people use it makes no sense).

It has already sold almost 2m with only a week out in the West, so I really don't see that happening.

FFXIV was a bomb, FFXII-2 is probably a success for SE.
Then again on the internet everything has to be either absolutely amazing/huge success or crap/total flop.

well i don't like the direction the franchise is going, but the capture feind idea was great. needs some work though.

US preorders just got readjusted, European sales halved, I'm in a nightmare right? I'll just go to bed and tomorrow morning sales will be readjusted, right? After all FFXIII had indeed been undertracked at launch...

And anyway at 860K the PS3 version is just 20% under FFXIII first week in the west so I rather think it's not that bad given the unfair amount of hate FFXIII received. Furthermore, XIII-2 cost much less than XIII given that it re-uses many elements so it's probably an excellent operation for SE profitwise. Therefore, FFXIII-2 sales are quite positive for the future of the series because what matters is profit not sales. SquareEnix itself, in Japan as well as in the West, wasn't probably expecting or needing FFXIII-2 to surpass FFXIII, so I guess we shouldn't.

The 360 version almost halved, that should be the only thing worth notice.

Serious?

I beg to differ.

Anyway, reviewers in general need to kick their reviewers into shape and completely change their scoring system. They also need to stop scoring games depending on the amount of hype it has, Skyrim and Mass Effect get seriously over-inflated review scores, while a masterpiece like Tales of Vesperia slips under the radar and sits at a 79 on metacritic. You guys can argue about Final Fantasy all you like, but almost every JRPG fan and gamers in general will tell you that Tales of Vesperia is a fantastic game, it's a shame it hasn't been localised on the PS3.

That's the spirit :)