NA FFXIII sales: biggest first-week performance in franchise history

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MikeB on 19 March 2010

"Final Fantasy XIII, the latest installment in Square Enix's seminal franchise, has sold over one million units in North America in its first five days -- the company says it's the biggest first-week performance in franchise history.

Final Fantasy XIII, notably released on Xbox 360 in addition to PlayStation 3 in Western markets, launched on March 9. The publisher said it sold-in five million units worldwide for initial shipment -- bringing global shipments of the Final Fantasy series as a whole up to 96 million units. By comparison, Square Enix's major Dragon Quest series has shipped only 53 million units worldwide.

In Japan, where the game is still PS3-exclusive, FFXIII launched December 17 and sold 1.8 million units by the end of 2009 -- 1.5 million of those in its first week alone. Despite releasing at the end of the year, it was the fifth top-selling game of 2009 in the country."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27750/FFXIII_Achieves_1_MillionUnit_FiveDay_Sales.php

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darthdevidem01 on 19 March 2010

oh reports from france's GFK tracking service:

Final Fantasy XIII already the TOP SELLING Game of 2010 in France (Data from GFK)

http://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=fr|en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jvn.com%2Fjeux%2Farticles%2Ffinal-fantasy-xiii-deja-meilleure-vente-de-2010.html
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CONGRATS FF13!!!!

Over 1 million is AMAZING.....we know the game shipped 1.5 Million in NA (3 Million in the west....1.5 in EU, 1.5 in NA......announced around 1.5 weeks back)!

looks like further shipments will be needed!

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MikeB on 19 March 2010

I think for FF XIII it was the right choice by SE for a multi-platform 360/PS3 release. But I think for FF XVI it will be best to stay exclusive.

FF XIII was still designed for the PS2 initially in mind. Focussing on the PS3 with regard to FF XVI can allow for much more technical freedom.

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Excellent! I love Final Fantasy!

Also, I love the word "seminal" because it sounds dirty.

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lestatdark on 19 March 2010

So, where are the people badmouthing FFXIII sales now? XD

Anyway, we all know it's a flop since it didn't do Halo/COD/mario numbers right?

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MikeB said:
I think for FF XIII it was the right choice by SE for a multi-platform 360/PS3 release. But I think for FF XVI it will be best to stay exclusive.

FF XIII was still designed for the PS2 initially in mind. Focussing on the PS3 with regard to FF XVI can allow for much more technical freedom.

You mean console exclusive, right? FFXIV will be best played on PC as any MMO will be.

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MikeB said:
I think for FF XIII it was the right choice by SE for a multi-platform 360/PS3 release. But I think for FF XVI it will be best to stay exclusive.

FF XIII was still designed for the PS2 initially in mind. Focussing on the PS3 with regard to FF XVI can allow for much more technical freedom.

Nope, I would say the series is multiplat forever now

I have no doubt the performance would have been less if it hadn't been multiplat.

And I don't see any drawbacks caused upon the game due to xbox 360....not 1, sorry.

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As a not.....FFX didn't do 1 million in its first NPD....so FF13 is outpacing FF10 by a bit already.

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Brilliant :) glad its doing so well, it deserves to

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nightsurge said:

MikeB said:
I think for FF XIII it was the right choice by SE for a multi-platform 360/PS3 release. But I think for FF XVI it will be best to stay exclusive.

FF XIII was still designed for the PS2 initially in mind. Focussing on the PS3 with regard to FF XVI can allow for much more technical freedom.

You mean console exclusive, right? FFXIV will be best played on PC as any MMO will be.

I very much doubt that has to be the case.

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mitsuhide said:
Brilliant :) glad its doing so well, it deserves to

Lets hope it shows some strong legs too.

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