Euphoria14 said:
No, but what I am saying is that FFXII was hyped long before it came out as well. People look forward to these games long before they are even set to release. There is nothing to prove that now all of a sudden US+EU sales for the franchise became heavily frontloaded when they never have been before in those territories, even after FFVII, which also was incredibly hyped and sold 330k in it's first week in the US. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_Sept_9/ai_19749216/ |
Hype of a JRPG doesn't necessarily translate to gargantuan sales in the West, given that the JRPG fanbase in the west is smaller than fanbases of other genres. So relatively speaking, 800K for a JRPG in its first week in the US is phenomenal, since no JRPG has even cracked 1 million LTD in the US in this gen. It's all relative.
