| A203D said: Appologies for the delay, my internet connection was down. i have new evidence, and it was underneath our noses the whole time. firstly thexboxman. i've provided to the original link for the Wada interview http://www.finalfantasyunion.com/news/square-enix-final-fantasy-xiii-will-outsell-final-fantasy-vii--710.html i think ffunion even lets you listen to the interview, so i'm quite certain this is good proof, because the site from before was just a forum post. and secondly the FF13 western announcement trailer.
4.19 mins, "Final Fantasy 13, quite possibiliy the most anticipated game of all time" i cant find it but there is another youtube video out there where Kitase says FF13 will exceed ALL expectations. and Toriyama has also said that FF13 is intended to be the best single player RPG ever. so you cant say it wasnt hyped. not to mention all the other things i mentioned, like when they compared FF13 to Call of Duty, or the Leonia Lewis marketing campagain here in the west. now based on this, i strongly believe that FF13 was meant to be bigger than FF7, and meant to be the best selling JRPG until the next big FF. so okay this is my opinion, fair enough, but i think its well justified. and i think they adjusted the prediction down to 6 mil, when all the reviews came trickling in and when they saw the preorders, etc. |
The one where they said 6 Million was made at a major conference in September 2009, before any reviews came out. Your link is from a gamingunion.net interview (which is definetely full of again PR/hype), it is not credible enough to say that is their expectation and ignore what is said at an investor meeting. I never said the game wasn't hyped, but you act like past titles haven't been hyped or marketed, FF9 had advertising with coca-cola, FF8 had the 9.9.9 slogan, FF7 had a $100 Million marketing campaign. That whole video you just showed me is full of PR and marketing hype. Its not really a matter of opinion, the fact stands shareholders were told the game was expected to sell 6 Million, the news was widely reported across credible gaming sites. Time to agree to disagree.
