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

[Scoobes]

A203D said:

Runa216 said:

nitekrawler1285 said:

Sales are the closest thing to an objective measurable means as we will ever come to indicating quality.  More sales means more people voting with their own hard earned income.  Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit are just the best damn games ever and Metroid Prime is mediocre at best.  That is how it will be remembered because more people are actively investing in the Wii Sports, Wii Play and  Wii Fit experiences.  They do so because they are seen as higher quality experiences.   

There is so much wrong with this answer and thought process that I'm not even going to dignify it with a well-worded answer.  instead I leave you with a single word: 

No.

I thought nitekrawler's post was a joke. i've platinumed both games, and personally i enjoyed Mass Effect 2 more than FF13. mainly because i think Bioware developed the universe so well and made you really think about the story going on. while the story was not enough, a lot of the game was based on recruiting new team mates, i can live with it because it was very well executed. FF13s story wasnt as good and wasnt as well executed for various reasons. 

but both games had gameplay problems. either way the game that should be compared here is not Mass Effect, it should be Fallout 3, which has sold more than FF13 and has sold that many copies without having a strong Japanese fanbase.

I didn't realise Fallout 3 had sold so amazingly well. That's impressive stuff. However, didn't Fallout 3 come out 2 years before FFXIII? Mass Effect 2 came out in the same year as FFXIII so it's a much better comparison than with Fallout 3.

The number in the title however is a little misleading as we don't have a clear picture on how the PC version sold or any data on PSN sales (which I imagine would be fairly low but we can't be sure).