XIII to release under 500k in US?

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

darthdevidem01 said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Anything under 5 million is fail to me. Cuz Wada promised me it would outsell FFVII.

All jokes aside, there's little way to guage how the numbers will turn out for this title. People tried to guage FFIX, X and XII based on previous popularity and performance of the series and were all wrong, because the consoles weren't the same as previous titles and the fanbase for the series kept getting smaller each title. A conservative estimate would put a pre-order draw for the US at around 500-700k while it could get up to 1.5m. With a series as random and front-loaded as this, its anyones guess.

I have told you this probably 10 times now, yet you still make the same false statement for like the umpteenth time

FF9 was the low point in terms of sales post FF7

FF10 outsold FF9 by around 3 million, FF12 outsold FF9 by around 600K

the series has not become smaller & smaller with each iteration.

The series seeing a surge with one title, but seeing a fall-off in sales with every other title (FFIX, FFX-2, FFXII) is called getting smaller over time.  Whatever you want to call it, go ahead.  Sure, the games are still selling in the millions and that's good, but if you put all the games data up, you'll see that after FFVII, each game goes down in sales, with only FFX seeing a rise in sales, and still not to the level of FFVII.  At best, it looks like the scenario is saying only one FF a generation can reach peak sales.  And it isn't looking good for FFXIII to reach either the level of FFX (8 Million) or FFVII (9.7 Million).