Carazo on 04 November 2007
4. FF has been in decline since FF 10, 12 sold HALF of what 10 did, on half the user base, it will be big in japan, but elswhere to a certain extent.
First of all I want to say that Final Fantasy XII dind’t sold Half of what part X did and that it will likely sell another 250,000-300,000 since the game recently has turned platinum in NA en EU. The problem with Final Fantasy XII is that it did came to late in PS2 life cycle when the focus was shifted and it’s practically the same situation as Final Fantasy’s IX one in his day, but if we go out of the Final Fantasy franchise we will see that the same did happen with other video-game sagas like: Zelda (Majora’s Mask), Banjo (Banjo Tooie) and if a game like Paper Mario 64 had came out in 1999 it would have sold twice as what it did in 2000 and 2001 (EU).
I don’t know how much Final Fantasy XIII will sell, but I can tell you know that it will be the best selling Final Fantasy of this generation and that the last one this generation (FF 15????) will have the lowest numbers.
It could be also be the first "real" next-gen RPG like FFX in his day and this could make people curious.
