wait.. so selling 1.9m on a console that has a 3.8 userbase in that country is a flop? think again..

Well I did my best with this one... lol

Just for you Akiba

put Sazh on the cover and I'd go for it :D

FF13 flopped?

News to me.

EDIT: Final Fantasy has been on a decline for a bit now. I imagine that DQ9 would have sold poorly if it were on Wii or PS3. It's too bad really, I think it's a great game and it should pass FFXII in the long run.

It's only damage control if you don't like the FACTS that are being presented to you. Sure, comparing it to previous FF games, the sales don't look all that impressive. But then again... It's only been out for 4 Months.

FF13 has sold just under 2 Million units in those 4 Months, without a "BEST" release or an "INTERNATIONAL" release... Or any other re-releases like FF games ALWAYS get. Even a 360 release could end up boosting it a few hundred thousand...

The sales of the game WILL be boosted, and i wouldn't be surprised if Versus XIII gave it a small boost too when that releases.

It COULD surpass Final Fantasy XII when all is said and done.

@ Wonktonodi

Make it non-linear and you will see japan buying the $h!+ out of it

how cool is that, you get a dragon on the box art. SE should hire me. You'll see sales rocket up to the moon.

@darthdevimo for what it cost to make a game like that with userbases in the millions, yeah less than half mil is flop, if not someone tell me what a flop is. I know what its not a million sales or more. they need Versus 13 out like yesterday. hell, ill take Agito

I'm sad your microecon prosseor didn't fucking stress about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceteris_paribus

There are TWO variable in the supply and demand graph. Quantity, and price. At first, I thought you were simply making the mistake of lumping all Final Fantasy games as one product, therefore saying that there's a huge quantity, and therefore, there needs to be a low price. Well, that mind set is totally retarded, but no, you're saying something even more ridiculous, in an extremely belittling and arrogant way.

"It's called a downward demand slope, it tends to happen when interest isn't there anymore."

NO

Again, Ceteris paribus, "all other things being equal or held constant". The reason why the slope is downward sloping is a simple relationship, between two variables, x and y. It's the common sense and proven belief that if you have the SAME ONE product, and you raise the price, quantity sold will be lower. If you lower the price, the quantity sold will be higher. Simple, nothing involved with "interest" or freshness.

If you're trying to talk about deminishing marginal benefit (a common sense example will be that a scoop of ice cream will make you happy, but the tenth one won't be as enjoyable), then that brings me back to case one, which is that final fantasy, the series of individual products, is one product. But no, you have to focus on only one product at a time. All you can do, if you want to include factors OTHER than price and quantity, then is to SHIFT the demand curve. Which means that at every price, there is less quantity of products demanded.

*sigh* I don't even know why you're brining up macroeconomics. The aggregate supply and demand curve has nothing to do with this. If you're going to talk about the recession affecting game sales, fine. But the reason why those two lines are downward and upward sloping are not even related the supply and demand of a SINGLE product.

I've only taken two principles course of economics, but I don't go acting smug and big like you.