PS3 HW - 245k and FFXIII - 1.5M

[epicurean]

Demotruk said:

epicurean said:
Demotruk - So what is that amount of games a game has to help a system for it to be a system seller in the "usual" sense.

And how many people specifically bought a DS for Brain Training? As in "I have to go buy A DS Right now so I can play Brain Training!"

There is no specific number in the same way there's no specific number required for a game to be described as "big". But it is an identifiable phenomenon. It happened with Monster Hunter for the PSP. Would anyone disagree with the idea that Monster Hunter was a different sort of phenomenon for PSP than FFXIII has been so far for PS3? So far, FFXIII is more like a much bigger Monster Hunter Tri, which would qualify as a "system seller" in the literal sense. I'm not excluding the possibility of FFXIII ending up a killer app which is why I said "not yet", though I don't see it happening.

How can you even think to compare the two?  FF13 has been out for less than a week....I don't understand what you wanted it to do in this one week that other games apparently have done in that amount of time.  It seems to me you're penalizing FFXIII simply for only being out for 6 days...