Saying I'm not a Final Fantasy Fan!  Don't make me come to both your houses and stab you with my gunblade!

Dude....how long have u watched your friend play the game? and please explain how it is even possible to know that ff13 isnt your complete package of gameplay, graphics, story and music? ok maybe music and graphics you can tell by sitting through watching your friend. and you can even throw in gameplay mechanics here and there, but the main reason you play an RPG is the story. At least thats why I stopped reading books. And lets be truthful, the game looks beutiful and the music isnt bad at all. So realistically u cant even gauge story and if u even say u can from watching ur friend, ur nuts

I'm all hyped out. The hype was strongest at Japan release.

I'm a massive JRPG and Final Fantasy fan but yeah I agree my hype for this game has died ALOT. It just took too damn long to come out, about a year and half ago I litteraly couldn't wait for this game but now its been eclipsed by other games I'm looking foreward to way more. They shouldn't have spent so freaking long on the game.

They should have let it come out for PS2 imo.

Your whole post, except the sister-part, mirrors my feelings exactly. Exactly. Everything down to having a messed up personal life right now.

Play FF13.....ur personal problems will wash away

Somehow I doubt that.

Then play and be proven wrong.

The lack of interest is due to a combination of things:
It took too long to release- After it was announced that FF13 would be on the 360, it probably should have come out on both consoles that December after E3, where the title would've still been buzzing. Now, however, gamers are tired of waiting, and what they have now leaves them unsure of whether it is actually good enough to be worth the years of wait. The hype has died

The mishmash reviews- Recent details of the title further divide the views of the fanbase. Some welcome the changes, others don't. That is what unfortunately happens when a game is different from each iteration, that no group of people can agree to like the same things about it.

Great games, already here: Maybe a year or 2 ago when there were new IPs abound, the ol' franchise could've had a welcome return, but now some games are on their 2nd iterations while this mainline FF just joined the current-gen fracas. In the meantime the game was being "perfected", people found other things to play.

Poor advertising: A large part of the reason FF7 was so popular back in the day was because there were ads, EVERYWHERE. Outside of those who roam the websites, no one even knows FF13 is coming out. Plus, let's be honest, it is starring a woman in the lead role. Some gamers hate Cammie Dunaway just because she is female, no matter what she does, and the same thing could apply here. People may want an effeminate boy rather than a strong-willed girl. Also, the game itself has become victim to the fanboy wars, where instead of being a game, it was just a device used to argue over the PS3/360 wars and be a e-penis measuring stick between fans. All people argued over was whether one version hampered the other, which one is ever so slightly the better-looking one, and other nonsense. Now that the release is here, there is not much left to argue over, and people are left disinterested. In deciding to choose a console to buy it for, some gamers may wait to get it, if they will at all.

"WRPGS are better" - This gen has been more nationalist than ever before, and now barely anything Japanese gets much respect from Western teams or media. Look at the recent Toyota debacle. Just like news/car companies are seizing the moment of Toyota's weakness by blowing their recalls WAY out of proportion, their native products receive more attention, and the same thing applies here. JRPGs, whether they are good or not (most have probably been lame, IDK) have been getting low ratings the entire generation. Shooting FF13 in the head reviewwise may solidify what Western/European game creators/journalists may have wanted to see all along, and that was some respect, on a global scale, for their own titles. This is why Bioware is heralded and Square Enix is clowned lol

For a game that is supposed to be huge, FF13 isn't being treated like it, and its sub 1-million debut (which appears will happen in NA) on TWO consoles will prove that. Square Enix especially and the gaming industry to an extent really dropped the ball.