FF13 American sales PS3 vs Xbox 360

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loves2splooge said:

jneul said:
Oh come on, no way will the xbox 360 version sell more, you only have to look at the history for sales or rpg's on the xbox 360 to know that not even the great ffxiii will sell well on the xbox, they are more interseted in other games.
Also every rpg that has been ported from the xbox to the ps3 has sold more than the xbox 360 version, if this does not prove my point then nothing will.
Finally FFXIII is exclusive in japan to ps3, the sales there will be huge, xbox 360 can not stand against this, and hopefully the sales will convice S-E to return to developing just for the platforms which are really interested in their products (PS3 and Wii).

Just like Lost Odyssey didn't sell well on the Xbox 360 right? 810,000 for a new IP, 450,000 of that is from Americas. That's pretty darn good for a new IP. *starts sarcastic tone* Oh man the best selling PS3 jrpg to date (Valkyria Chronicles) totally pwnd Lost Odyssey in sales. Japanese devs really need to throw in the towel when it comes to 360 development huh? *ends sarcasm*

The 360 version sales will not beat the PS3 versions sales in Americas (for those that don't already have a next-gen console, Versus will sway them to the PS3.) but the sales will surprise people. Like I've mentioned before, you can't generalize from Tekken 6 because that is a fighting game and fighting game fans are bigger fans of the Dualshock D-Pad than the 360 analog or D-Pad. Do you really need a Dualshock D-Pad to navigate through menus? I can do that just fine in Lost Odyssey. And anyone that complains about multiple discs obviously hasn't been a jrpg player for very long (plenty of them are on the PS1). It won't kill you to swap discs 3 times (as I did with Lost Odyssey, FF8, FF9) throughout the total course of the game.

And like I said before,there IS demand for Japanese games on the 360. As proved by Resident Evil 5, Devil May Cry 4, Street Fighter 4 sales in the Americas. These are all series that were big on the PS2. So that PS2 userbase -> PS3 argument doesn't fly either. Many 360 owners have/have had PS2s. Who would have thought that these games would sell more on 360 than PS3 in Americas? No one would have dreamed of that a generation ago. PS3 fanboys need to stop perpetuating this myth that the 360 userbase doesn't have interest in jrpgs. The numbers tell a different story. You can't say there is no interest among the base when about 700k westerners (810k ww minus the 100-110k for jp sales) bought a new IP jrpg in Lost Odyssey.

 

You do realize that Lost Odyssey saw a HUGE price drop within a year right? Lost Odyssey also had heavy marketing as well as the "From the creator of Final Fantasy" attached to it. And it still sold alright. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG, and it managed to pull those numbers with no marketing whatsoever