MikeB's past predictions

[johnsobas]

greenmedic88 said:

MikeB said:

@ greenmedic88

Sorry Mike, but I have to pull out the actual numbers for FFXIII in Japan here.

I know I look at topics from many different angles, more so than most, so I will try to make the logic as simple as possible.

Why is Final Fantasy so important for Japan, beyond just sales to Final Fantasy fans? (Note that I'm not a Final Fantasy fan at all nor a Gran Turismo fan, despite this I mark them as critical titles)

Final Fantasy is a major popular franchise, its launch was massive in Japan. Mass press coverage puts the PS3 in the spotlight. This is very good for sales of the console beyond just selling consoles to Final Fantasy fans. Can you understand this logic?

To repeat myself verbatim: Basically, you're saying that despite the fact that almost no one is currently buying FFXIII in Japan, the game is still somehow magically selling PS3 hardware units?

it's not, it pretty much caused a 1 week spike which was made extremely frontloaded due to the massive amount of bundles.  If you followed the sales of the PS3 last year it was selling really well after the slim was released, then there was a massive spike for the FF13 release with bundles, then the week after that was pretty much exactly in line with what PS3 would have been without FF13 being there at all going by previous years increases during the holidays.