Even Square Enix Admits The PlayStation Era Was The ‘Golden Age’

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DigitalDevilSummoner said:

Yeah BUT* both IX & XII were hugely different from their previous conterparts. They were attempts much like "Versus", all three distinctively unique, so you can't make such straight comparisons. It is a practice they have alreayd followed.

Console sales didn't bother MGS4 and GT 5 from pulling big numbers.

And the sales suggest that that practice will inneveitably give them lower sales then the previous FF game.

I don't know why you brought MGS4 and GT5 into this since they were released at the peak (in terms of software sales) of the generation. We're approaching the end of the generation and software sales are gradually dropping off. A few games will still gather huge sales but the excitement from consumers is slowly dying down resulting in games that would perform better had they released a little earlier in the gen.