Analyzing the Analyst: Michael Pachter is Wrong

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jarrod said:
Tactics came out after FFVII btw. And FFI-II weren't near big, Nintendo even started giving FFI away with Nintendo Power subscriptions at one point to clear stock (they did this with DW1 as well). The point with FF is that the series didn't hit it "big" until FFVII, before that JRPGs in general were considered too slow, too difficult and too complex (sound familiar?) to be anything but niche in the west. FFVII really changed the game, not just for FF but the genre at large.

Pokemon was more a hit out the gates, but was also a game carefully handled by Nintendo (sound familiar?), and one that critics predicted failure for beforehand. Nintendo did the same thing later on with Brain-Age, another game that pundits said was "unsellable" at a conceptual level in the west.

Also for reference, the only MoHun not tracked here is the PS2 original. Likely because it predates much of VGC's actual data tracking and Capcom never gave out shipment figures.

Whatever dude, if MH3 does sale a lot, well then I will take back my "In Japan" comment.  Until then, Pokemon and Final Fantasy have always been big to me and I'm 24 years old.  So of course I wouldn't know much about the sales of FF1 and 2, that was also days when gaming still wasn't big anyways.