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IvorEvilen on 29 April 2010
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Christian973 said:
IvorEvilen said:
AkibaFan said:
Wagram said:
It did really good for the fanbase it was on. I don't think it flopped.

bt it did. to put things in perspctve, if ff13 hd done like at least ff10 in japan its sales wud be nearing 6 million now (combiend) and it wud probably be able to outsell ff7/8 worldwide. japan let ff13 sales down and with tht the franchise weakened. ff10 launched with 5 million PS2's but sold 1 million more than ff13. FF7 launched with 4.5 Million PS1's but ff7 sold 4 million. the userbase excuse wnt work with me.

very few games are capable of selling 3 million... especially 4 million... in one country!

Are you forgetting about Dragon Quest, Pokemon, Mario, ETC?

Anyway, yes it flopped big. It seems like it doesn't have enough legs in Japan (500 sales every week?). I guess people have moved on from Final Fantasy because it's a lot different now than from the SNES/PS1 days.

No, a Final Fantasy 7 remake would not sell well either. If you look at the sales of Crisis Core, it's higly doubted that a remake of 7 will sell 10 million copies like the original.


I wasn't forgetting about anything... like I said, of the thousands of games sold in Japan throughout the years, very few are capable of selling 3 million, and especially 4 million.  Just because Dragon Quest, Pokemon, and Mario sell well, it doesn't mean every game has to sell as well as them to be successful, even Final Fantasy doesn't have to be barred down by those expectations... although it is a competitor among them.

Anyway, you already know all of this, you probably just misinterpretted what I was saying; no harm done :P