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The Xbox Man on 21 May 2010
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A203D said:
The Xbox Man said:
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darthdevidem01 said:
Wow FF13 has outsold FF9 by 2:1 (EU sales) & FF12 (EU sales) handily within 10 weeks of its launch in EU.

It deserves it!

Well i'm not sure it deserves it, but i'm gald its doing well. the combined PS360 sales numbers are close to 2 mil. it will most likely top FF8 & FF10, but the big milestone is whether it can top FF7, 2.70, less than 1 mil to go. and for once it looks like the sales could top US. absolutly amazing. hopefully with subsequent price cuts, word of mouth etc, it can top FF7 here in EU. it must have been the Leonia Lewis effect, lol... not!

Really its done that well compared to past ones?

I can say the Leona Lewis effect has hurt the game though, most of my friends (who like me are new to FF) got the game because of the amazing CGI cut scenes shown in the trailer, not the shitty song. You have no idea, Leona Lewis is very unpopular among males here. We did all love the game however & we questioned why the song was even in the trailer because the game itself has really epic music that could have been used which could have possibly increased sales, nor did the song give the feel the game gives you. Leona Lewis did nothing but cheapen the commercials.

Lol, yeah i actully didnt mind the Leonia Lewis song, it didnt bother me that much and they only played it once at the end. i can tell you Leonia is popular here in the UK, but my friends didnt agree with her song in the game.

but i mean i'm refferring to combined PS3 & 360 sales which are about 1.8 mil i think. so i think combined they can eaisly get to about 2.30, which is more than FF10, but it will be a challenge getting to 2.70 mil. i heard that M$ paid for Sqaures advertising, that and good word of mouth seem to have been very strong here. i think M$ even paid for that Leonia commercial, lol!

You are dead to me hahaha kidding.

Leona is popular but is she popular among males that FF is targeted towards? I'm not sure she is thats why I don't think they enhanced the marketing to suit the audience they should have gone for. Listening to the leona song with FF13 commercials during football matches was awkward.

Like I stated in the other thread aksing the question whether FF13 can be the top selling one in Europe, the best thing to do is compare its sales to titles with LTD in the region each version of FF13 would need to be to get 2.7 Million to see how possible it is. On the other hand yes the word of mouth is very positive here, I don't know why many people on this site are negative about the game, possibly a different fan base is on this site compared to majority of the people in the real world?