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AbrahamHamdan on 13 September 2009
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darthdevidem01 said:
AbrahamHamdan said:
RageBot said:
The reason most Final Fantasy spinoffs don't sell that much is because they are, simply put, not quality games

 

That is a good point RageBot. The reason why the spin-off games don't sell well is because they are mediocre. So versus doesn't have to sell like them if it turns out to be good, which I'm 90% sure it is.

 

darthdevidem01  said:

Secondly: FFX-2 had FAIL written all over it......but how do you know FF Versus 13 doesn't?


I Hope not! but:

1) The development staff BLOWS MIND. Watch this video and pay attentions to the staff members' names.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/dks3713-trailer-final-fantasy/43655?type=flv

2) The Huge amount of time they are taking to develop this game. They have started working on it since 2003.

3) It is the only game beside FFXIII that uses the white engine (or Crystal engine).

 

As you can see there is a lot of care given to this game, if those reason don't convince us that this game will be a success, then we cannot be sure if even FFXIII itself would be a success.

Lastly, this generation is unpredictable. Who would have thought that the GT 5 prologue (a glorified demo) would have sold 4 mil, while GT 4 progloue sold like 1.5 mil on a much much higher user base. Maybe the same thing will apply to versus and it will surprise us with its sales.

All I can say now is that the circumstances are different. A lot of things have changed so we can't simply use the information from previous generation and apply it here. 

 

Hope I making sense.

 

That is a good point RageBot. The reason why the spin-off games don't sell well is because they are mediocre. So versus doesn't have to sell like them if it turns out to be good, which I'm 90% sure it is.
Secondly: FFX-2 had FAIL written all over it......but how do you know FF Versus 13 doesn't?
1) The development staff BLOWS MIND. Watch this video and pay attentions to the staff members' names. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/dks3713-trailer-final-fantasy/43655?type=flv
2) The amount of time they are taking to develop this game. They have started working on it since 2003.
3) It is the only game beside FFXIII that uses the white engine (or Crystal engine).
As you can see there is a lot of care given to this game, if those reason couldn't convince us that this game will be a success, then we cannot be sure if even FFXIII itself would be a success.
Lastly, this generation is unpredictable. Who would have thought that the GT 5 prologue (a glorified demo) would have sold 4 mil, while GT 4 progloue sold like 1.5 mil on a much much higher user base. Maybe the same thing will apply to versus and it will surprise us with its sales.
All I can say now is that the circumstances are different. A lot of things have changed so we can't simply use the information from previous generation and apply it here. 
Hope I making sense.

 

 

 

 

FFX-2 also had a MIND BLOWING staff imo

Jsut because YOU thinkt he versus team blows mind doesn't mean no-one thought the FFX-2 team didn't blow everyones mind......as trust me there are people on VGC who HATE Nomura, KH & many of the people in the staff list

As you said circumstances are different & the reality is not favoring PS3 at all......you have cherry picked about GT5:P.....there more things against the console than are going for it in this generation.

Also GT4:Prologue was not bundled & was not out for 2 YEARS before the actual game came......GT4:prologue never released in america too.....so that argument is pretty much null & void, not to mention there was already a GT game out on  PS2 called GT3 when GT4:P came out.

Please do some more research next time

Using GT5:P as a reason to say PS3 can sell SW isn't wise at all......you could have used MGS4.....but even it didn't do MGS2 level sales

@CGI

RPG himself said he expects GT5 to do 1.5 million week 1

it baffles me to see the same person predict FF Versus 13 to have a launch week 500K higher than it.....really baffles me

At the same time it surprises me to see Abraham predict FF Versus 13 to have 5 million sales when only 1 PS3 game has got there right now, & its called GTA4