Media Create Sales 12/12 ~ 12/18

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hatmoza said:

Reasonable said:

hatmoza said:

And there you have it folks, The proof FFXIII was garbage.

FW JPN FFXIII(PS3) sales ~1.5m
FW. JPN FFXIII-2(PS3) ~ 0.5m

Over a million Japanese gamers passed on the sequel. That's impressive and I've found faith in the gaming community once again.

Reality hurts Squeenix. Maybe now you'll get the fuck off your high horses.

FFXIII really did seem to foul the nest.  Sounds like -2 has better reception though so it may see a bit of legs if word of mouth gets around it's okay.  Following on from the whole FFXIV debacle - not to mention very odd switched of apparent allegience between Sony/MS as they tried to appeal to East/West at the same time -  SE really have had a bumpy gen overall.

Wonder how -2 will fare in the West now?  And what this will mean for Versus - that's still in development right?

Don't get me wrong. I'm sure -2 is much better than XIII, I just think 1 million gamers, Japanese gamers no less, deciding not to get the game on launch like they did with the first game speaks volumes at the trust SE has lost. I mean people have been losing hope for SE for a while now but it's finlly starting to show in their sales figures with these sales and XIV's as you mentioned. 

Oh I'm not a big FF fan really.  TBH FFXIII is the only one I've played and it was only okay.  I agree and was just noting that given it seemed to get quite well reviewed it shows how big the impact of FFXIII likely was on its sales.  I think SE really hasn't made good choices throughout the gen for the most part - and as you say the impact is showing.