Final Fantsy XIII is still Sony's secret weapon.

[NicholasCage]

Millennium said:

NicholasCage said:
Look at this also though, Final Fantasy Versus 13 is coming exclusive for PS3 also [As we know so far]

That will definetly raise the PS3 consoles sold in Japan by a lot.

Doubtful, actually. That's not how people have been buying systems this gen: they don't wait for their favorite games to be released. Even for Halo 3, you can trace maybe 250,000 units worldwide to being a direct result of its release; after that it all fades back into the 360's normal sales curve. For GTA4 the numbers are even more dismal on both of the systems it was released on. If these games can't move hardware by themselves anymore, I'm not sure anything can, not even FF. The market just doesn't work the way it used to.

To be honest, I think these games did move a lot of hardware. They just moved it around the launch of the consoles, rather than around the launch of the games themselves. HD console buyers, at least, seem to be viewing their consoles as investments in future games rather than simply means to play what's out there right now. This might be true for the Wii as well, but there's no way to really be sure, since the Wii has consistently sold out since launch no matter what was being released at the time; you can't measure demand when it's literally off the scale.

In any case, this is all great for initial sales, and doubtless gave the HD consoles a much-needed boost (again, it might have done this for the Wii too, but that can't be verified). But it also means that you can't trace system-sellers the way you used to, because you don't have a reliable point of reference where you can start tracking sales. Worse still, it means the numbers are always going to be lower than they would otherwise, because people don't normally buy more than one console of a given type unless their existing one breaks; someone who got a PS3 at launch is probably not going to buy another one to celebrate FFXIII's release even if they got the machine specifically for FFXIII. This makes the hardware numbers look lower than they "should," because the sale didn't happen at a time people tend to expect.

But considering that almost every FF game since 7 has sold AT LEAST 2 million units in the first week alone, and almost 3mil LTD, it should move a lot of PS3 units. Also since there are only 3mil PS3's sold so far, it should rise a lot.

Wii's in Japan have been dropping a lot recently. Reports said that it has been in their lowest state selling units in Japan sometime in the past few weeks.

Sorry if I don't make sence, I'm really tired lol.