lol interesting debates here honestly as for the "downplaying" I see more people downplaying people putting things into context over downplaying records. It's always been a problem and just about all of it comes from being a cheerleader for certain consoles and companies, people love to see one part of the picture and not the whole picture even when people try to put their own arguments into context.
And yes great sales for FFXIII, though still on a downward week 1 trend in Japan, and having the sales boost of the holidays that no other FF game had in Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy check the timeline for release dates) I really didn't know what to think as far as predictions go for FFXIII first week, since I saw it doing well, but there are many factors involved and had no idea which way it was going to go hardware wise.
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