PS3 HW - 245k and FFXIII - 1.5M

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ioi said:
Should du just under 200k next week and should get to around 2m before any budget releases or international versions.

And in a way I have to agree with the "system seller" thing on the surface. While FF XIII added maybe 150k new PS3s this week, the effect will be short-lived.

On the other hand though, maybe 1m PS3s have been sold in the last couple of years to Final Fantasy fans in anticipation for FF XIII so it definitely is a system seller, just that the sales pattern is different to many other games and harder to spot immediately in that it sold systems prior to release and in the first week of release, not for months afterwards (like NSMB Wii will, or like Brain Training etc did)...

Yeah, I agree with this. It's unreasonable to expect an established franchise like FF to drive sales after its release, because nearly all the people it will sell systems to, will do so early (either on or before the week of release). Its system-selling power is tied to its small legs.

On the other hand, titles that sell well over time like the Wii series, or break out hits like MH will sell consoles over a long period of time. For example, it's possible the next MH (say, next gen) will see a pattern closer to FF.