So Final Fantasy XIII's western launch is less than Bad Company 2's launch?

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darthdevidem01 said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Zucas said:
Well what probably helped Bad Company 2 is coming off of Modern Warfare 2. Although, the developers are trying to distance themselves from the title, more than likely there are a lot of gamers looking to move on to the next thing and Bad Company 2 offered that... more so than MAG could have. That probably helped turned BC2 into a much bigger game than usual.

Obviously Final Fantasy is a big western title, but it's not the same big title that we see in Japan. In Japan it is top 5 biggest franchises, but in the West it doesn't even make the top 10 over the last 10 years. I think people get confused because FF is a huge core franchise, but not anything that sells vastly to the mainstream... something BC2 does do for being a mainstream genre.

Well you can't really get millions of sales and not hit the mainstream, honestly girls I know that most would group with mainstream play DDR/PiU, Guitar Hero, Pokemon, Kingdom Hearts, and Final Fantasy.  If you want an RPG that really doesn't hit that mainstream crowd in the West that would be DQ.

And for people complaining about how you can't compare the two... well Final Fantasy simply is the biggest JRPG franchise in the West that isn't pokemon (which is really hard to classify as a JRPG or WRPG since it lacks a lot of the distinct characteristics of both) so with HD games generally having bigger front loaded sales and breaking records for older franchises (even if the game is worse than its last gen predecessor, like RE5) people were expecting a lot from FFXIII.  Though I really wasn't one of those guys, I'm just throwing it out there, some people had big expectations.

Honestly for me things are shaping up how I thought they would, XIII isn't setting the world on fire, the series fanbase is kinda dying it seems, however it is a rather slow dying off. 

I'll get back to you when it outsells FF12 worldwide.

Anyway on the bolded:

Square-Enix claimed its the fastest selling title in the series in the west.

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/13360-final-fantasy-xiii-fastest-selling-title-yet-in-series/

The low point in sales post FF7 was FF9....not even FF12.

And it will most definetely outsell FF9 worldwide.

Uh... that's still not breaking the trend... FF9 released to less hype and ads, after the PS2 had already released as well, with hype going towards FFX on PS2, which released just little over a year later in the states (which FFXII squeeked in there before the PS3 launched, still they promoted it much better with things like a demo disc in DQ8).  The trend is the first FF of the gen outsells the previous entry, but doesn't outsell the first Final Fantasy of the previous gen, FFVII sold better than FFX and I think its likely FFX will sell better than FFXIII, but then the next games in the generation will sell lower than XIII.