About a year ago I had been regularly making posts with a "sales of the day" theme. Because of a lack of time and a decrease in participation I stopped making those threads. I would really like to see more discussion of sales here on vgchartz/gamerconnect, so I'm going to try to start doing these threads occasionally, if there seems to be much interest in the first 1-2, I start doing the regularly once or twice a week.
Look at Those Legs Game of the Day
Description: In the "Look at Those Legs" series we look at the sales of a game that has been released for at least 12 months, and compare first month sales to current total sales to determine if a game's sales were front-loaded or if it exhibited strong "legs".
Final Fantasy XIII
| PS3 (WW) | # of Copies Sold | % of Total Sold |
| 1st Week Sales | 2,703,549 | 58.40% |
| 1st Month Sales | 3,588,220 | 77.50% |
| 360 (Amer+EMEAA) | # of Copies Sold | % of Total Sold |
| 1st Week Sales | 752,373 | 42.4% |
| 1st Month Sales | 1,142,047 | 64.5% |
| PS3 (Ame+EMEAA) | # of Copies Sold | % of Total Sold |
| 1st Week Sales | 1,238,585 | 44.9% |
| 1st Month Sales | 1,802,464 | 65.4% |
This Chart is based off a random sample of games from all platforms and genres.
Based on the criteria here, Final Fantasy XII has had very weak legs. You can see that removing the Japanese sales of the PS3 version, puts its legs right in line with the 360 version, but it is still extremely front-loaded. So why do you think this game did not have strong legs?
