loves2splooge said: FFXIII sales are going to be lower than usual in Japan because of the limited PS3 userbase over there. I also predict that FFXIII sales outside of Japan aren't going to be as hot as FF sales were in the past due to the declining interest in Final Fantasy and jrpgs in general. And it just makes sense. JRPGs have failed to grow up with their audience. FF7 may have been cool when you were a pre-teen or teen but guess what? All those pre-teens and teens who played FF7 are now in their twenties. You think a bunch of twenty-somethings are going to be just as hyped up for 60-hour cliched melodramas with tedious gameplay as they were in their pre-teens/teens? Plenty of those twenty-somethings moved on to western rpgs and FPS. And many of them are not coming back unless the jrpg dramatically changes. I myself have pretty much given up the genre (and I've given it a lot more chances than I should have) but yet I still have this hope that it will get better so I'll for sure end up buying FFXIII anyway. lol. But honestly, for the most part, playing those games feel like such a complete waste of time to me and not exactly the most enjoyable way to burn a whole bunch of hours. |
1. What limited PS3 userbase? the PS3 installed base just grew 200K in the last 2 weeks and it'll keep going up. As FFXIII release gets closer the hardware sales boost will begin and once it hits the streets 250K PS3s in a single week is a mark very achievable. 5 million PS3 installed base by the end of the year is not out of the question (holidays, bundles).
2. Outside of Japan JRPGs have lost some strength because honestly, the commanding console which got most of them, first of all it hasn't got anything of the quality of a FF game, and second their userbase are a bunch of FPS lovers.
3. It won't flop. Quality sells, and if anyone knows how to adapt to the ever-changing market is Square-Enix. I'm sure they have developed a game that can be enjoyed by all kind of audiences, specially today's "hardcore" audience.