Someone explains this to me : FFXIII outsells Mass Effect 2 by 1'632'195 in the west

[badgenome]

TheSwordUser said:

badgenome said:
It sold on name value alone. We won't realize the damage FFXIII did to the series until the next Final Fantasy flops.

I thought it already did. Sort of.

I was talking about XIII-2 or Versus. But we can see the same principle at work here: XIV flopped because XI sucked. (Go ahead and ban me, twesterm!)