Some sony fans to be dissapointed with FFXIII sales and its effect on ps3?

[cwbys21]

souixan said:

cwbys21 said:
I think some people are forgetting one very important thing when speculating about sales for FF13. When FF13 comes out the PS3 will be in the mid 20 million range and FF13 will stay on store shelves for AT LEAST 24 months, so that is another 20 million console sales at current sales rates (Sony said they expect to ship around 10 million this year). So the PS3 could be around 45 million units when FF13 is taken off of shelves and to get 7 million (which is great for any game not named GTA) it wouldn't need the big attach rates that people are thinking about. And since Final Fantasy has such name recognition people just picking up a PS3 at the end of FF13's shelf life would strongly consider picking it up as it would be a Greatest Hit and cheap.

 

Kinda tough to say where PS3 will be given we have no firm release date or even year. Hell with previous translation rates Europe and others might not see the game till 2010. I really hope we don't have to wait this long I'm sick of hearing about it lol There's so many things sales could speed up slow down, natural disasters can stop them completely for short periods who the hell knows. I wouldn't be so willing to say 20,000,000PS3's... and by the way shipping 10,000,000 this year doesn't mean they'll sell them all.

That is true, but what would be the point of making all those systems and continuing making the systems if they don't sell?  You could make less systems and sell those off and find ways to make it cheaper.  And then instead of having a stockpile of systems that were more expensive to make you have systems that were cheaper to make going through to retail.

@cwbys21 FF games never had large legs, and  usally get most their sales in the first month or two. I don't see it being on shelves for 24 months going to help it reach too far.

So FFX sold its 7 million in the first couple months and then sat of store shelves for 2 years?  And FF12 sold its 5 million by Christmas and has sat on store shelves neglected since then?