darthdevidem01 said:
I have been looking at this issue since I came here and everytime people put down FF13, MGS4 (HA they were proven wrong) & GT 5 as the "lowest" sellers in the franchise.
I don't understand as their argument is usually PS2 had a 120 million userbase.....thats all fine but PS2 DIDN'T have a 120 Million userbase when GT3, FF10 & MGS2 released.....they still sold millions
In fact:
GT 3 released when PS2's userbase was at 11 million (definetely possible for GT5)
http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS2®1=All&cons2=PS2®2=All&cons3=PS2®3=All&start=37101&end=37430&weekly=1
n it went on to sell 15 million.
FFX (had a staggered launch) but when it PS2's userbase was at:
5 Million in Japan (granted Ps3 won't be there for FF13)
I would say max for ff13 will be around 2.5 mil. The Ps3 isn't taking off here as hoped by a lot of us.
7 Million in NA (definetely possible for FF13)
WAYY too much for ff13! The halos haven't even put out that in NA and they are probably the most hyped games here in the Us. (other than Grand Theft Auto and Madden.) 3 mil max imo. FF in America isn't like GTA or Halo on the popularity scale.
8 Million in others (Definetely possible for FF13)
Yet again. Wayyy too much. It would mean it would be near or beat Nintendogs in Others and that's almost laughable to think it will. (girls, moms, and grandmas will not suck up ff like nintendogs.) 3mil max here imo.
Whenn MGS2 releases the userbase size in each region was a bit lower than that of the FF10 release
so PS3 is really losing out on sales from Japan...thats it, otherwise these key franchises should sell just as much, and the argument that PS2 had a userbase of 120 million bites the dust as when these launched it most certainly didn't.
It's not the userbase arguement at the amount of the consoles sold by the game releases darth. It's the final userbase arguement when said games have been released. These 3 consoles have uncertain chances of catching the Ps2's lifetime sales. (though the Wii has the best chance out of all of them.)
What do all of you think....is it valid topull the franchise down due to saying "PS2 had a 120 million install base" when majority of the sales are done at launch.??
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