Final Fantasy 12 is awesome.

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Khuutra said:

Kasz216 said:

I disagree.  Before 7 the numbers of the final fantasy sales weren't off other games from what i recall.

The site doesn't have the best numbers on it.  Most likely numbers just taken from a press release but note FF6 was the big hit for square with FF4 having sales below Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger.

Dragon Warrior sold 500,000 in the US.  Final Fantasy 1 was almost definitly below that.  Original release i believe only being 400,000 copies world wide.

At most you could argue it was Final Fantasy 6 that got Final Fantasy some of it's "cred" with the marketing pushing it over.

But in the west Final Fantasy was an average RPG until 6/7.

You are unnecessarily limiting the scope of this discussion, which obscures exactly how much Final Fantasy sells in comparison to other entrants in the genre. Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana are hardly typical of the genre, even on the SNES.

Dragon Warrior sold 500k in the US because copies of it were given away for free when you subscribed to Nintendo Power. That gam was such a commercial failure that the enormity of it still echoes throughout the halls of NoA. Final Fantasy's initial worldwide shipment was 400k. After that they made more of them.

Would yo ucare to compare it to Illusion of Gaia? Terranigma? Mother 2? Legend of [Blank]? Tales of Blahblah? There were dozens of RPGs on the SNES that clawed for the kind of popularity FF2 had but never came close.

Final Fantasy was never average.

1.  That was such an awesome deal.  I felt like I stole from them.

2.  Been playing FF from the start.  it has always been great.  Been looking forward to new ones ever since playing the first.  Oh and FF2 was huge back then. I once acted like I liked a kid named jon so I could stay the night and play FF2.