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Pineapple on 18 March 2010
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burning_phoneix said:
Pineapple said:

Final fantasy isn't that huge in the west. It never was.

Take the Ps2 ones first.

If you exclude Japanese sales (leaving only the west), the best selling Final Fantasy (FFX)sold 5 million. A quick check makes that the 9th best selling game on the Ps2. FFX-2 sold 2.8 million, and FFXII sold 3.2 million. That makes Final Fantasy XII roughly the 45th best selling and and Final Fantasy X-2 the roughly 60th best selling.

Final Fantasy isn't as big in the west as one might think. If we had properly looked at the numbers in advance, this shouldn't come as a huge shock.

Edit: I think it's completely fair to compare the sales of two titles on the same machines. It's not really apples and oranges, more along the lines of red apples vs green apples. Or apples vs pears.

Except all those games did better than every console Battlefield game ever.

Battlefield is a growing series. Each installment has sold more than the previous, and the last finished at ~ 2 million.

Final Fantasy is a shrinking series. The last one sold ~ 2.8 million.

The fact that the previous Final Fantasy titles have sold more isn't that relevant, as they're moving in opposite directions.