@Pooper: Because Japan is the only place in which a FF has defined a generation.
Plus userbase ratio to game, Japan is Huge, the other regions are just high. Compare GTA with FF in the west, there's no comparison since the difference is extreme.
And if you check, FF X-2 and FFXII have all been decreasing in sales since FFX.
FFXII sold 1 million less than FFX in America.
FFXII sold 1.4 million less than FFX in Others.
While Japan remained almost the same. It's obvious that FF is a big franchise in the west, but not even close to be the biggest, for example Zelda, Mario, Halo, GTA, Smash Bros, GT, Mario Kart, MGS, Gears of War are all bigger. So any game in any of those franchises will be bigger than FFXIII.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
