Ps3 over taking the 360s growing lead....

[Spankey]

Dianko said:

Spankey said:

In case you forget, Japan is quite capable of buying multi-million units of major Final Fantasy releases.

Sure, the PS2 sold more units there, but the potential is there to sell at least 1 mil. copies LTD of this game in Japan alone.

Thats a pretty relevant figure.

out of interest:

FF X: 7.95 million units WW LTD of that Japan bought : 3.02 million (38%)

FF X-2: 5.21 million units WW LTD of that Japan bought : 2.41 million (46%)

FFXII: 5.09 million units WW LTD of that Japan bought 2.42 million (47.5%)

Maybe you could argue that this sites data is incorrect, but those numbers seem relatively relevant to me.

 

 

 Those numbers aren't really relevant to your argument, since the PS3 is not the PS2. We've had a number of popular PS2 era franchises that have significantly underperformed in their PS3 releases. FFXIII will be a success. But will it ignite a massive resurgence of the PS3 in Japan? I'm willing to bet no. It will probably end up being one of the lowest selling FF's in Japan, I'm guessing 1.5 million at most. The userbase just isn't there to support sales similar to the 3 PS2 titles. In fact, looking at the fraction of sales coming from Japan, I could see why SE decided to make it multiplatform.

Oh come on, now you're being rediculous.

Final fantasy X (the one that sold the highest here) launched 20 July 2001 in Japan. the PS2 launched on the 4th March 2000 officially in Japan, so the PS 2 had only been out for just over a year in Japan before FFX hit.

I think you'll find the numbers of PS3 consoles are roughly half of what the PS2's were at the time in Japan(4.8 million vs 2.49 million)

If you half any of those numbers in my previous post (you didn't bother to read the percentages sold in Japan, did you? you naughty boy!) you still end up with over a million for each title.

A relevant amount, I'll say again.