Will the PS3 ever reach 10 mill in Japan?

[Sullla]

Xyrax said:
Going to be some rude awakenings about the power of FF on a console IMO. I dont think it will hit 10m and I think people are going to freak out seeing the smaller than expected effect FF has by finally releasing on a console that isnt ALREADY dominating Japan like all the other FF's have had the luxury of.

Will be interesting

Bingo. It's pretty irritating to see how many people still think that Final Fantasy single-handedly wins console wars on its own. Final Fantasy has done well for the past decade because the games always appeared on the runaway popular console - to spin this around is to mistake cause and effect. Remember, the Playstation was already outselling the N64 and Saturn in Japan by a ridiculous degree even BEFORE Final Fantasy 7 came out:

Hardware: 25 Jan 1997

Console	Week	Weekly	Total
	113	91,198 (+6%)	5,062,657
	406	83,290 (+52%)	13,984,137
	114	28,227 (+6%)	4,563,489
	32	16,207 (-37%)	1,809,570
	323	7,673 (-37%)	16,413,570
Total	226,595

Weekly hardware sales the week before FF7 released. Pretty obvious who was going to win, right? We'll finally see how Final Fantasy will do when released on a non-dominant console, and it probably won't be very pretty.

Barring some seismic change in the market, the PS3 definitely will not reach 10m in Japan.