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A203D on 15 May 2010
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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
AkibaFan said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Sales are going down.  Its a lopsided and gradual decline, but sales are going down.

Its also a case of different goals.  Wada and the 'CEOs' (or financial and advertising side) excpected FFXIII to do as good or better than FFVII, simply because it was on a new platform and was 'bigger and better' than FFVII.  Plus because they were pumping more money into it than any FF game ever seen.  Where the developers of the game such as Kitase and Nomura were just trying to make a game and didn't have any real goal in mind.

That's the problem.  They don't have a focus.  The same thing happened with FFX as well.  People consider that game a success because it sold well, but it still didn't reach the sales of FFVII.  And the goal set by the company was to surpass the sales of FFVII, as they put a lot more money and advertising into FFX.

I already corrected u on this in another thread. U keep saying this all the time but ur wrong. When they wer talking to their investors they sed FF13 is expcted to ship 6 Million. Later on they told a magazine they "hope" it can sell like ff7, duh, they did tht to hype it. Their tru expctations are those they laid out in financial meeting. And that was 6 Million.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6230719.html

Wht is the point in correcting u in the othr thread if u jst ignore it?

So FF13 will do bettr than expcted in sales. Wit FF10 however they sed they expcted 10 million in the financial investors meeting, so tht did underperform.

First of all, the link you just provided me was to another magazine interview.  Not an investors briefing.  Second of all, stating to the press or stating to investors you want a game to sell a certain amount wasn't my main point here.  My main point was each title, they keep pumping more and more money into the advertising and funding of each game.  As if they EXPECT it to sell more.  They can say to either their investors, magazines or Jack Thompson for all it matters that they expect it to sell a certain amount, but their effort shows that they want it to perform better.

If someone sells 100 apples by putting forth $10 in advertising, and then turns around and sells only 80 apples with $50 woth of advertising, they can't say it was all 'as planned'

 

Yeah i think your on to something with that; i mean you really think that Wada, Kitase & the FF team said to themselves, lets spend all this time and money on a game that dosent exceed what we did before. i'm not saying they set out with the goal of outselling FF7, but i think it was something they had thought about. and i bet they spent loads on advertising.

i think it was on finalfantasy.net or somthing, i have heard rumours that wada wanted to surpass the sales of FF7, but he never provided a figure, i think after it became unrealistic he brought that figure down to 6 mil. in that release data trailer, Kitase said that FF13 will exceed all expectations and the presenter mentioned how FF13 was possibily the most anticipated game of all time. theres no doubt in my mind they wanted to top FF7.