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ironmanDX on 16 March 2013
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badgenome said:
ironmanDX said:
Only 0.63 million on the 360 and a respectable 2.29 million on the ps3. As good as those sales are, it's an exclusive. Taking away the 360's .63 million, 2.29 million isn't going to get them the 120 million back and as I said, that's an established console with over 70 million units sold at the time of the games release. How is the game going to go when it's a launch title? Even if it hits 2 million, that's not enough.

I think it's a mistake to compare it to XIII-2 just because that is the most recently released Final Fantasy. XIII-2's sales were depressed because of the mixed (leaning negative) reception to XIII. A better example might be FFX, which came out shortly after the PS2's first year and continued to be a strong seller throughout the system's life.

If it can just match XIII's hype, Versus would surpass XIII-2's lifetime sales almost immediately upon release.

As far as the rumor, I'm really not sure about Zeal's credibility.


How so? Versus is a "spin off" of FFXIII as was FFXIII-2. The only comparson that isn't fair are the console sales as I stated above. Hype for Versus has died. No forum threads about it anymore, no new news apart from this rumor, few Avatars with Versus, (enditall has one.... I think that's his name). If it is revealed at e3 hype will return but after the FFXIII burn many people felt, will it be enough? You can't compare FFX to anything at this stage. PS2 was a beast. It's hard to compare a console that has sold 0 to one that has sold over 120 million. (I know it might come across as dowplaying, it really isn't. Read my first post, I like Square to much to see them lose millions over this game)

UnitSmiley 5 minutes ago

 

Yeah but at the same time XIII wasn't well recieved so a sequel to a ill recieved game in a franchise that typically doesn't have sequels (besides X-2) was bound to sell a bit less than most. Even X-2 which was a sequel to a FF game that most fans DID like sold just a bit more than half of what X sold.

If Versus turns out to be an actual good game, I think people would give it a chance.

 

I hope you're right but again as I said above, you can't compare game sales on a console with 0 sales to one with over 120 million. Versus is a spin off, it it wasn't it would be FFXV.