North America HW up!

[jarrod]

CGI-Quality said:

ProdigyBam said:

CGI-Quality said:

I LOVE GIGGS said:
This is North America thread so it's obvious that I was talking about NA only.

Considering that XIII did more on PS3 and 360 than XII in NA week 1, it still doesn't make sense. How is it bad for Final Fantasy when the numbers have improved and probably would have even if it was still PS3-only, or at least matched XII's #s?

XII Week 1 - 571,945

XIII Week 1 - (PS3/360) - 672,000

The fanbase is split a bit, but the numbers state that XIII is performing better than XII did. It seems like people aren't checking the numbers to see how XIII is ACTUALLY performing for a Final Fantasy.

Why compare it to XII?

Its the first FF of this generation so it should be compared to FFX imo.

Also in this gen games have much shorter legs than last gen, so its obvious that FF13 wont come near to the sales of FF12.

It's like MGS4. It was compared to Snake Eater, not Sons of Liberty.

Also erroneous imo.  I notice PS-fans always seem to liken PS3 sequels to the PS2 originals before release (see: GT5/GT3) but after release they always compare to the less successful last PS2 installments (see: MGS4/MGS3).  Of course this isn't unique to PS-fans, Nintendo and Xbox fans do the same, and it's just as annoying when they do it too. :/