akuseru said:
I consider the legs of FF in Japan show how it has flopped. Or is it normal for the biggest JRPG series to sell 890 units in its 17th week on the market? Or like this week, not even in the Top 50, sold a whopping 1.700 copies, with 3.000.000 users out there with PS3 and no FFXIII. For a FINAL FANTASY game, this reeks of failure. Just look at sales of other and older games in Japan http://vgchartz.com/jweekly.php?date=40307&console=PS3&maker=&boxartz=1# , they put FFXIII to shame. Of course FFXIII has a higher total sales, but I mean 3/4 of its sales was first week sales, so it has no legs at all. Looks to me the game flopped pretty hard in Japan. |
FFX launched & sold 2.3 Million before it got its re-releases. After its re-releases FFX ended up at 3 Million. FF games are extremely front loaded in the region & it doesn't help that PS3 is selling at a lower rate than PS1/2 were. No its not a flop in Japan, you will see sales go up after re-releases come out. FFX-2 ended up at 1.9 Million before tis re-releases which took it up to 2.4 Million.
Out of the "older" games on the chart before FF13, well they have all had their platinum re-releases so thats a reason, wait for FF13 to get its one.
