The Xbox Man said:
It definitely could but if you saw my comparisons further up in this thread its not going to be easy, don't get your hopes up that high, you and akiba, the games done really really good sales either way. Lets hope other RPG's can do this well in the future. |
Yeah i just had a good look at your comparasions and thought i would show a few more, mainly based on the PS3 data because we can see the 360 slowing down and capping at about 0.8-0.9. About the MGS4 comparasion, i think that the difference is MGS4 was bundled with the PS3, but theres no such bundle for FF13 here in Europe. So MGS4 was at a huge advantage in terms of longjevity/legs.
First off FF13 has sold faster than Modern Warfare 1. but i think we're going to see it slow just before it reaches 1.5 mil and slowly decrease. but it is astonishing that a JRPG has sold faster than a FPS in this gen of consoles in the EU.
Next is Resistance Fall of Man which has also sold 2 mil. the problem is that even though FF13 has sold faster than these games, it probabilty wont have the momentium to continue to 2 mil. looking at the graphs i think that 1.5 mil is definitly within reach. but 2 mil is not a certainty.
Here we have Mass Effect 1 in the US region and sadily it shows what will potentially happen to FF13, after an RPGs inital peak, theres no real momentium.
Comparing FF12 to FF13 shows that FF13 could have stronger legs.
Hope that offers a more optimistic view. i mean the next few months will determine whether 1.5 mil is achieveable, which i think it is. but we need about 1.8 - 2 mil to top FF7. sadly the momentium for RPGs FF12 and ME1 show that there are no legs for RPGs after their inital peak. but we can see that Assassin's Creed 1 & 2, games which arnt shooters have done extremely well on the PS3. All we can say at this point is 1.5 mil isnt far and we can judge the momentium a lot clearly during the next few months.
we can see that popular games, like Call of Duty, Resistance, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and Assassin's Creed have have a strong forward momentium. so its too early to get our hopes up, but the price hasnt been cut to £20 yet so theres still some room for a surge later on in the year or next year.
@akibafan, the numbers you said would work and i would be pleased to see that, but at the moment it seems the foward momentium for RPGs is not as strong as other popular games. but who knows, we could be supprised.
