I find it exceedingly unlikely that FFXIII will sell 7 million worldwide; that would imply an attach rate that no video game has ever achieved without being bundled with the system. Even FF7 didn't come close, and even Halo 2 (probably the game with the highest attach rate in industry history, not counting pack-ins) didn't manage THAT much.
Likewise with the '3 million in Japan alone' figure, seeing as there aren't even that many PS3s in Japan at this point. One must also take into account the fact that big-name HD titles don't sell all that many additional consoles at release, either on the PS3 or the 360. The fans of these titles didn't wait for their favorite games to be released before getting the machines, and that gave early sales a great boost but now it is coming back to bite the console makers.
Bottom line: at least on the HD consoles, the era of the "system seller" as we once knew it is over, and even FFXIII won't bring it back. People buy HD consoles in a different way from how they used to, and the market needs to adapt to this new behavior.
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