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AkibaFan said:
Acevil said:
AkibaFan said:
thts whtt I was saying to expctation & dev cost it is a flop in jpn bt no1 ws listening to me,

A flop is typically judged by Revenue - Development Cost - Marketing cost, and I highly doubt that selling near to 2 million in Japan resulted in a flop. Is it the worse selling mainline Final Fantasy in Japan (maybe so), however it did not flop....

ff13 cudnt hve made bck dev & marketng costs from 1.8 million sold in jpn so we cn call it a flop there.

Killzone 3 couldn't have made back development costs from the units it sold in Zimbabwe either, but that doesn't make it a flop in Zimbabwe. You are ignoring the facts that don't suit your argument.

Particularly, the fact that XIII isn't finished selling in Japan, and also the fact that the userbase for the PS3 couldn't support many more sales of the game than it actually did. There was really no physical way for it to sell many more copies than it actually sold considering that userbase. When XII was on sale in Japan, how many millions of consoles were in the hands of the Japanese, vs the PS3?

No matter how big your game is, you can only sell as many copies as your userbase can support. YOU need to accept the fact that the economy, userbase, and time on the market might be greater factors to the FFXIII Japanese sales figure than the quality of the game or its marketing.



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.