| michel3105 said: And that's exactly my point!!! They are different products, their sales are unrelated -----> Total technical nonsense of the "support" theory or the "buy to have the next" formula. |
I wouldn't say unrelated. FFXIII was the first game with years of hype behind it, so its sales represented pent up demand and all the other games were bound to sell markedly less than those first 5 million. XIII-2 in a best case scenario might have pushed something like 4 million, but the drop off was worse than it might otherwise have been because reception to XIII had been so mixed. Lightning Returns' sales being less than 20% of XIII's just shows how badly they were beating a dead horse, and it was entirely predictable since it was the sequel to the sequel to a game that people were generally disappointed in.
That's actually a fairly strong relation. Much more so than comparing the sales of two completely unrelated JRPGs (say, Tales of Vesperia vs. Ar tonelico III). But I take your meaning. Each product does tend to stand or fall on its own merits and for very particular reasons. On the other hand, JRPGs are much more of a niche product than, for example, shooters, so their audience's buying habits are more predictable.
