Square Enix: Final Fantasy XIII will outsell Final Fantasy VII

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

chubaca said:

RageBot said:
It won't happen, FFXIII does nothing to attract new audience, and without new audience, it won't sell that much.

And you think the audience it already has is little? We are talking about a franchise with more than twenty years.

 

But 10 millions...yeah, I think it's possible, barely.

The Final Fantasy audience isn't small, but it has been shrinking ever since FFVII.  Each title following has seen a drop in sales, and as much as the following FF games were hyped, they didn't seem to pick up new fans.

Its not like a Seriessuch as Dragon Quest, which has a rock steady fanbase.  Or Tales, which fluctuates between sales on each title.  Or Persona, which has seen a steady rise in each title.  Final Fantasy has seen a steady drop ever since FFVII.  Sure, FF might reverse this trend from the last major title which sold 5.5 million due to it being on two combined systems and having been hyped for 5 years.  However, it probably won't by much.  And there's little hope it will be able to even surpass the sales of FFXII because it doesn't have the benefit of coming out on the PS2 with such a high userbase and near the end of its main console lifetime.

Any way you look at it, FFXIII is going to be a struggle to even obtain the regular numbers of a main series Final Fantasy title, let alone be some record breaking HD title like SE is trying to hype it.