Oh, right. 3.2 million -.-

I mixed up FFX-2 and FFXII

it's because of the 360.


FF13 (in the west for PS3 alone) > BC2 for PS3

FPS outsells a JRPG in the west?

Shock!

FPS genre is much bigger than the RPG genre. Much, much bigger.

See how long the legs for BFBC2 stand up against FF13 though.

Well what probably helped Bad Company 2 is coming off of Modern Warfare 2. Although, the developers are trying to distance themselves from the title, more than likely there are a lot of gamers looking to move on to the next thing and Bad Company 2 offered that... more so than MAG could have. That probably helped turned BC2 into a much bigger game than usual.

Obviously Final Fantasy is a big western title, but it's not the same big title that we see in Japan. In Japan it is top 5 biggest franchises, but in the West it doesn't even make the top 10 over the last 10 years. I think people get confused because FF is a huge core franchise, but not anything that sells vastly to the mainstream... something BC2 does do for being a mainstream genre.

The concept of modern warfare FPS (not literally the game 'Modern Warfare') is a phenomenon now.

This is not just a comparation between a FPS and a JRPG.
Final Fantasy is the biggest JRPG franchise in the west.

I'm not saying that this is "OMG, what happens now?" situation, but deserves a discussion/topic.

Id say the Multiplatform move Hindered the FFXIII sales. Especially considering this.

If the game remained exclusive:
The hype alone would have been through the roof.
Sony would have ask Square to delay FFXIII by a month so God of War and FFXIII wouldn't eat each other's sales
People wouldn't be going around saying that the 360 ruined FFXIII

Kind of doubtful since multi-platform games have outsold exclusives this generation on non-Nintendo systems.

Some. Not most. As of right now If FFXIII (360) doesn't sell more than a Milli then I think it would be safe to say Sqaure wasted time and money on the port