Roketan said:
tbone51 said:
It'll do better me thinks too (ratio wise), but FF is on a whole other level of bad. Its an established franchise though this one in particular more of western style rpg than the traditional jrpg but still. FFXV can do 50% less than FFXIII lifetime and it'll still be worse than YW franchise or PD major decline.
That said FF still doing 1mil-1.2mil lifetime wouldn't be "That Bad" but it falls under lets say 700k-750k.... I wouldn't kno wat to say tbh. Maybe FFXIII really did hurt FF in General? Im starting to believe FFVII will do more than 15 now (despite being sold in parts)
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Yeah, something tells me that FFVIIR will do better than FFXV. DQ11 also will do better than FFXV, in my opinion despite the 3DS version. FFXIII has good reception in Japan so i don't think it has anything to do with any potential ''failure'' of FFXV. Truth is, as you said, FFXV looks very western focused RPG. It doesn't look anything like FFX, FFXIII, FFVIII etc. Not only the game but also the marketing. Trailers are focused on the gameplay and not on the story like japanese people like. Uncovered was an event that was held in west etc.
But if FFXV fails to do more than 1 million or a little more than 1 million, i don't think this will be the end of the franchaise in Japan. People don't remeber this but FFIX had a massive delcine compared to FFVIII. FFIX ltd is almost the first week sales of FFVIII. I don't have the numbers but i am sure someone can find the data. I don't know the reason for the big decline (maybe because it's style was so different from FFVII and FFVIII?) but my point here is that FF had a bad period in Japan before and it managed to become big again.
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I think this is the main reason for the "little" interest from japanese gamers, i feel the same, FFXV is the first FF that i'm not going to buy.
About the western focused, even Hajime Tabata mention that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gEm_WjMy88
4:10
"Up until now, Final Fantasy has been viewed as a cutting edge franchise, and i'd really like to reclaim that title or reclaim Final Fantasy's throne, if you will. And I believe that, by striving toward AAA western titles a synthesis between that and Final Fantasy, we might finally take that glory back."
Is not the same with FFIX, that was one of the best selling Final Fantasy in japan, not like FFVII or FFVIII, of course, these two games are exceptions, thanks to the "Final Fantasy VII effect", i think, but FFIX sales are similar to V, VI, X, in japan.
