So the game possibly just sold 60-70% of it's US+EU sales already and will most likely struggle to sell 2M of the 3M shipment?

We shall see.

You think FFXII wasn't hyped?

I didn't say it wouldn't sell it's shipment. If it sells it's full shipment, that's still less than FFXII, because that sold 5.7 million overall.

Did I say that? FFXIII has been massively hyped for years, nearly more than any other HD game.

I will be happy if that number doubles with full week numbers, I was hoping it to be around a million for both consoles combined first week in america.

No, but what I am saying is that FFXII was hyped long before it came out as well. People look forward to these games long before they are even set to release.

There is nothing to prove that now all of a sudden US+EU sales for the franchise became heavily frontloaded when they never have been before in those territories, even after FFVII, which also was incredibly hyped and sold 330k in it's first week in the US.

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Right.  Which is why it's meh.  A game with the pedigree and hype and waiting period of FFXIII only does 700-800k for  first  week compared to those games?  To me, it's not too exciting.  People had threads going that FFXIII was going to move significant console numbers, yet alone move software.  Maybe the actual numbers will be higher than these?

FF12 also release for Christmas. So it will be more front loaded than FF12. At least for its first few weeks. LT it might have similar legs. Still... not nearly trhe 10 million seller SE was hoping for.

Hype of a JRPG doesn't necessarily translate to gargantuan sales in the West, given that the JRPG fanbase in the west is smaller than fanbases of other genres.  So relatively speaking, 800K for a JRPG in its first week in the US is phenomenal, since no JRPG has even cracked 1 million LTD in the US in this gen.  It's all relative.

I think that no one should have bought it, then do developer would make JRPGs again. All kidding aside, that's a bit disappointing considering how hyped it was, but not a bad start. I know that I won't be buying, renting, borrowing, or pirating it anytime soon. It isn't even worth my bandwidth. No offense meant to JRPG fans.

P.S. I was kidding about the pirating, I don't do that kind of stuff.

Considering that JRPG is a dying genre in the US and even the best JRPGs of this generation (ToV, Lost Odyssey, Valkyria Chronicles) have failed to sell even a million copies, I would say that S-E has gotta be pleased with those numbers. FFXIII should easily cross the 1 million mark by early next week and become the best selling JRPG in the US this generation and by a substantial margin to say the least.