Am I wrong in thinking Final Fantasy XIII sales are good?

[jarrod]

perpride said:

Solid_Snake4RD said:

perpride said:
umm....anyone who knows how much FFXIII has sold and still says that it has flopped doesn't have any idea what they are talking about.

mnay who are saying that don't mean flop in technical english word meaning but in the sense that it didn't perform upto expectations

then they're expecations were too high. I'm almost 100% sure that even Square knew that they were exhagarating when they said it would outsell FFVII.

Times have changed. RPG's (not Pokemon) have a hard time selling in general. This is especially true with JRPG's nowadays. In a generation when Lost Odyssey and White Knight Chronicles haven't hit a million sales yet, FFXIII is the best selling RPG. There is no flop in that, only hate coming from haters.

Actually, this is only true on consoles in Japan for the most part.  Though there've been a few exceptions there too (MH3, DQ Swords, Atelier Rororna, etc).  And really, WKC did pretty well in Japan too, almost on par with Rogue Galaxy.

In Japan, RPGs are doing better than ever on handhelds.  DQ is up.  Pokemon is up.  MH is way, way, way up (and now bigger than FF).  And legitimately new IPs like Inazuma Eleven are doing fantastic even.