How does it compare to other FF games?

I was kinda hoping it would be at +2M at this time:/

The performance is as expected, but maybe on the low side. Some of the less rational posters here were insisting it would be quite a bit higher though.

I remember that some consider 2,3m in first week for Draqon Quest 9 was a flop, so.....

FFXIII is performing exactly like an FF game in Japan, essentially selling the majority of its copies in the first four days.

when will hardware arrive?

^ Patience, grasshopper!

The development cost of FF7 is estimated at around 45 million dollars, 8 and 9 are less than that, let's say, each of them is 30 million.

2 million difference in sales is something around 40 million, so the game will still make more money, and let's not fool ourselves that developing games for the SNES was free, okay?

And, ONCE AGAIN, this is taking the HIGHEST selling SNES game, and comparing it to the LEAST selling 3D FF, what will happen if I take the highest selling 3D FF? will we still be making this comparison?

And to fwap... I just wrote 15 lines of text trying to tell you why you are wrong, but it is pointless since you don't seem to try to understand anyway, i'm out of here.

Worst comparison ever?

Good effort, really. But 3D FF games are still in decline.

Wow Tales Dropped like a big rock... on the other hand the games that were released before FFXIII and NewSMBWii are still hanging there... see Namco?? Western publishers do avoid releasing their game to huge releases like MW2 and NewSMBWii even after the holidays to avoid a result as this, why can't you be the same??

Who would release their niche game the same time frame as freaking Final Fantasy and freaking Super Mario???