Why I predict First Week JPN FF13 sales to be 1.6 million

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Thing is, is FF as popular now as it was back then? FFX-2 sold only 2.41 million in Japan, and FF12 only 2.42 million lifetime, on a much larger base.

In addition Famitsu is predicting a less than 1 million first shipment, so even getting enough software out to do 1.6 million first week is unlikely

FFVII and FFX where the first of the series, IIRC, on the respective current gen Playstations of their times, just like FFXIII will be on PS3. FFX-2 and FFXII weren't.

So maybe FinalEvangelion's arguments aren't definitive, but they are quite fitting. If he's right about potential and Famitsu's right about actual shipments, FFXII could be slowed by shortages, though.

Yes, but those were market leaders, not third place consoles

Evangelion used units sold in his calculations, cold numbers and records, more than personal opinions. And besides PS3 being 2nd in Japan, should this stop its users from buying FFXIII? Didn't Halo sell very well on XB1 too? How FFXIII will affect sales is a different issue, and I won't even try to predict it. Anyway, even excellent PS3 and FFXIII sales shouldn't affect Wii sales, if this is what you fear and try to exorcise with bizarre predictions, almost everybody thinks that price cut and new Mario release will boost its sales to good or very good levels.