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outlawauron on 09 May 2010
AkibaFan said:
Fab_GS said:
AkibaFan said:
Galaki said:
leo-j said:
there's a reason why people aren't buying, and it's because its so linear

Is that the best you can do at damage control?

I expected better.

we all know the game flopped in jpn, so hes nt doing dmg control. Japan didnt like it linear, west did, so its doing amazing in west bt flopped in jpn. He is right.

Wait, wait, wait..... Are you saying that FFXIII is a flop in Japan?! I didn't know that selling almost 2m in Japan is a flop...........

dude ff13 is one ov my favrite games & evn i accpt its a flop in jpn compared to other ff's, a series must grow not shrink. In west FF13 is luking ike it will sell more than FF10 overall makng it 2nd best selling ff there and a big growth for the frnchise, in comparsn to success like tht in japan its a big flop. U need to luk at it in tht way.

it sold more in america in this week thn it has in jpn since the beginning of th year, it dusnt take einstein to relise ff13 is a big success in west but it is a flop in jpn, no two words about it.

A shrinking console market in Japan has nothing to do with it, got it. FF XIII = huge flop, amirite?



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HKN on 09 May 2010

£20 in the UK



leo-j on 09 May 2010

this is the longest FF game though..



 

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noname2200 on 09 May 2010
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Geez, at least it took Dragon Quest IX some 9-10 months to get a reduced price. This has gone straight to the bargain bin in about 4 months. Talk about over-extended hype.

Japanese games routinely drop their prices just a few weeks after release. Four months is much more than I expected, especially at that price point.



Bamboleo on 09 May 2010
leo-j said:
this is the longest FF game though..

Isn't IX bigger?

 



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radha on 09 May 2010

westernization thats what happen, japan didnt get a JRPG like most of us specked but a "marathon simulator". I dont think square will go back to its roots for the next FF, to them is all about money, no more chocobo breeding, no more hidden treasures, hello 10 hours tutorial and simplified menus.
Good bye final fantasy.



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noname2200 on 09 May 2010
Bamboleo said:
leo-j said:
this is the longest FF game though..

Isn't IX bigger?

 

You can beat IX in under 12 hours (it's how you get the best weapon in the game). I'm not sure if you can do that with XIII.



Kenryoku_Maxis on 10 May 2010
noname2200 said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Geez, at least it took Dragon Quest IX some 9-10 months to get a reduced price. This has gone straight to the bargain bin in about 4 months. Talk about over-extended hype.

Japanese games routinely drop their prices just a few weeks after release. Four months is much more than I expected, especially at that price point.

Yes, but they don't routinely drop the price for their most anticipated games.  Hence why I made the comparison to Dragon Quest IX, which took over 9 months to get a price drop.  Final Fantasy XIII being a game that was suppose to be on the a similar level of hype and, according to SquareEnix itself, expected sales as Dragon Quest IX.  Hence why the game has bottomed out so early.  Its a classic case of a compny who's eyes were bigger than their stomach.

And this is a little more drastic than a price drop.  This is going from full price to bargain bin without a gradual decline.



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manuel on 10 May 2010

Just some more info:
This was the only copy for 980 Yen (they had a special sale this day). The other copies they had were all 1980 Yen.



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alfredofroylan on 10 May 2010
leo-j said:
this is the longest FF game though..

It was one of the longest movies I ever seen indeed.