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Euphoria14 on 17 March 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
Euphoria14 said:
aragod said:
FFXIII sales are disappointing for me, I thought that both versions would do atleast 1 mil in NA, 650k is rather poor considering FF is the largest and most hyped JRPG franchise and this is it's first title on HD consoles. I guess the critical response hit FFXIII quiete hard, also FF is getting released between few huge titles which may affect it's sales, as these other games had generaly more favoreable reviews.


You do know that not even the ultra hyped FFVII or FFVIII did those kind of numbers right, and FFVIII was coming after the highest selling title in the franchise's history. Even with a lower score this game is outselling the both, so I don't see how these sales are disappointing.

In Japan one could make the argument, but in US+EU the game doesn't sell 60-70% of it's sales in the first week. It has better legs in the West than it does in Japan. Check the games database and look at FFXII sales.

leave it people will just ignore you

If it doesn't do Halo/COD/GTA sales week 1....its disappointing.


But I mean... well... COME ON! All they have to do is check VGChartz' own games database!!!



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Nintendogamer on 17 March 2010

Wii will hit 69 Million next week,, a nice number to say the least.hitting 70 million next month is looking likely.



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Skeeuk on 17 March 2010

poor sales for ff13, should have done 1 million across both consoles in NA alone.

i think game may drop of pretty quickly also, i guess wrpg are more popular now.

good numbers for ps3 and 360, ff13 helped.



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ChrisIsNotSexy on 17 March 2010
Skeeuk said:
poor sales for ff13, should have done 1 million across both consoles in NA alone.

i think game may drop of pretty quickly also, i guess wrpg are more popular now.

good numbers for ps3 and 360, ff13 helped.

That would have meant a First Week worldwide of over 3.5 million :O.

As big as Halo 3...?Hell no.



Xen on 17 March 2010

What can I say? Go HD consoles!



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Demotruk on 17 March 2010

It's only with the Wii doing so horrifically badly that the HD consoles look in any way good. They got a moderate boost from FFXIII (bigger for the 360). Consider if the Wii had enough supply to be flat YoY for the week. The HD consoles would have only eeked out a little market share for the week.



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ChrisIsNotSexy on 17 March 2010
Demotruk said:
It's only with the Wii doing so horrifically badly that the HD consoles look in any way good. They got a moderate boost from FFXIII (bigger for the 360). Consider if the Wii had enough supply to be flat YoY for the week. The HD consoles would have only eeked out a little market share for the week.

PS3 also has low supply issues,and is still up YoY with or without FF XIII boost.



Euphoria14 on 17 March 2010
Demotruk said:
It's only with the Wii doing so horrifically badly that the HD consoles look in any way good. They got a moderate boost from FFXIII (bigger for the 360). Consider if the Wii had enough supply to be flat YoY for the week. The HD consoles would have only eeked out a little market share for the week.


Yup, let us ignore that the PS3 is also supply constrained.



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Kilzoned82 on 17 March 2010
Skeeuk said:
poor sales for ff13, should have done 1 million across both consoles in NA alone.

i think game may drop of pretty quickly also, i guess wrpg are more popular now.

good numbers for ps3 and 360, ff13 helped.

The quality of FFXIII was not up to scratch. Gamers and reviewers have expressed very mixed feelings about FFXIII.  Gameplay in FFXIII is non existent. Just feels like going from one cut scene to the next. A little gameplay thrown in and a linear path way. Early impressions of a game are critical to gamers who just do not have the time or patience to endure a slow paced game. The graphics in the game were not even the best on HD consoles. MGS 4, Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 all have much better graphics than FFXIII.

WRPGs/Action/FPS games seem more popular than the same old JRPG. JRPGs have been a big let down to JRPG fans this generation.



paulrage2 on 17 March 2010

I think PS3 will Up strongly in the next week.