darthdevidem01 said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
If you're trying to defend Final Fantasy by saying its a 'mainstream' franchise and therefore that makes it 'ok' for its sales to drop later in a consoles life, just because other series had a similar experience, that's still not a good reason. And for the examples I gave, you think they did better because they weren't part of a series or were 'niche' titles? No, they had to work 100x harder to get popular in America/Others, which is why I brought them up. Indeed, there is some kind of sequel effect going on, but that doesn't mean its just acceptable and we should just shrug it off as the status quo. I'm sure the boys at SquareEnix weren't just treating the sales of FFXII as 'acceptable losses'.
As for the sales of FFXIII, you are a lot more optomistic as I am. I highly doubt it'll even reach that of FFX, let alone get to the level of 8-10 million like you're saying.
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No I am not trying to defend it, I have given you the reason for that happening. Can you come up with any other reasons. why did this decline happen for the last 2 generations?
S-E probably weren't happy with it, but what can they do to reverse it?
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I gave my reasons and you disputed it. There's not much more to 'come up with'. To do so would be changing my position or trying to come up with some random claim to counter yours, which I'm not trying to do. I stick to my views unless data proves otherwise. And as yet, I haven't seen anything that has. And I doubt the sales for FFXIII will change that either, unless it somehow does sell beyond FFX and/or FFVII.
