Why stop there? Why not have it sell like Wii Fit now? :P

Can't people be happy that this shows that FF wasn't as dead in public opinion as it was claimed over and over? 

Well, DQIX at least may hit Wada's crazy goals (5m Japan only).  FFXIII doing 10m does look more like an impossibility.  10m was also Square's expectation for FFX btw (and it fell ~2m short).

Going multiplatform was the right decision. You can't tell me that 600k is bad.

You'd be surprised.

I've heard of several games not being multiplatform because 1 million+ was not worth the investment........

The question is, were those additional sales, or just a split?

Square's main mistake is to wait so long with the announcement. Everyone that wanted the game a long time ago got a Ps3. If versus ever goes multiplatform its best to announce it soon. But if versus and FFonline don't see the Xbox its kind of pointless in making XV multiplatform since the PS3 version will dominate the Xbox version in the west once more!

I've been playing too much Pokemon this week, so I didn't even see what FFXIII was even bumped from.

Congrats to both versions for selling very well. ^_^

And now we'll see how Pokemon will do. 2 weeks with the two biggest (in the west at least) JRPG launches. Pretty cool!

Sorry, I just don't buy this line of reasoning. I honestly don't see PS3 FFXIII sales rising ~600k 1st week without a 360 rev.  Sure there'd be some uptake, but I've seen nothing that'd indicate it'd be anywhere near half a million.

There's the issue of "superior version" behind it all, meaning the vast majority of multiconsole owners bought the PS3 version already anyway, leaving the 360 version likely to 360 exclusive gamers.  And logically, if the majority of those 600k 360 owners wanted to the game badly enough to invest in a PS3 over it, then they'd have been more likely to invest in a PS3 now anyway to get the best version of the game.  Or more likely, they'd have already invested in a PS3 beforehand, and this isn't even factoring PS3's current supply issues (ie: ~600k PS3 sales this week is a literal impossibility anyway).  There'd obviously be some uptake on the PS3 side without a 360 version, but chances are most of those 600k 360 owners would just buy something else or keep playing Mass Effect 2.

FFXIII isn't even a first case sort of thing either for this.  When PS3 gets the better version of multiplatform games, it usually shows in the sales (Burnout Paradise for example).  You can't really draw a direct comparison to "equal" multiplatform games like DMC4/RE5 or something with an implied 360 advantage like GTA4 and conclude sales weren't "enough" to show opening up a new market.  In fact, I'd argue in cases like RE5/DMC4/GTA4, 360 was more likely to be cannibalizing sales that would've gone to a theoretical PS3 only rev than really opening up a new market.  Your logic's really kinda backwards on this one CGI...

Great numbers for an awesome Game. Played about 25 hours now, and just can't stop :D

GO FFXIII!!!

But Microsoft did not pay for release rights in Japan only in NA/Europe it was a calculated Business decision that it would sell on XBOX 360 in the west but not Japan if FFXIII had been released in Japan it would have soled about 150K-200K max lifetime and been out soled 10:1 so FFXIII International will like FFXIII will most likely never be on on the XBOX 360 in Japan.