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jarrod on 28 December 2009
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psrock said:
ioi said:
@psrock, now you are comparing software to hardware?

My point is simple - hardware sales are not a direct result of one game. That's all I'm saying. Nobody is downplaying anything or trying to be anti-PS3 or anything else. The point is simply that hardware sales (which is what this thread is about) are a composite of many different things all going on at once. Now a big game like the first FF release on a console is big enough to have a huge influence on hardware sales but it is not the ONLY influence on hardware sales.

All I did, (not "make excuses" as you quite rudely put it) was to point out that you can't attribute the total 240,000 units of hardware sold last week to the release of FF XIII, which is a fair and valid point and that the whole thread topic of "hardware boost due to game release" is flawed since there are other contributing factors to hardware sales other than just the release of one game (however big and dominant a game it is). Comparing hardware sales in December to hardware sales in June or whatever and trying to suggest that the December game had more of an impact because the absolute sales are larger is so flawed that it makes the comparison totally meaningless.

the op " The PS3 sets a new hardware record for the highest hardware sales during a Final Fantasy release week." Again, you are right, but the OP was quite simple too, and made no claim that FFXIII  alone was the reason it sold 240k, it cleary focused on the biggest week of a ff game. Now, you know better than me, i really don'y think FF alone contributed to the others games sales either, the fact was and still is, it had a bigger week than any other, yeah with tons of help, but it did.

My point is, I really don't understand why the other stuff were brought in, when while it was released in December, but it was also on a third place console, it had only sold 100k plus once, and none of us expected it. The other FF games were on dominating consoles, which held bigger userbase, they had bigger seling power anyway, it's amazing the ps3 did this no matter the time it was released.

 

 

Actually, being on a less ubiquitous platform would've helped PS3 hardware sales during FFXIII week.  It's in Japan's top 10 3rd party series today, a game with that much mainstream appeal is going to get people in to buy the machine it's on.  This in contrast to something like DQIX on DS, which still pushed hardware sales but just ever so slightly since the installed base is already so gigantic.