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Darth Tigris on 22 December 2010
jpain333 said:

releasing it a year later was pointless and destined to be a failure, if it released the same week as the PS3 version in Japan it would have done at least 100k-300k lifetime....


Looking at all software sales in Japan, the best selling 360 games has been Ace Combat 6 with ... 217k.  Only 3 games have sold over 200k (AC6, Blue Dragon and Star Ocean 4).  You would think a HUGE game like FFXIII would sell significantly more, but yeah I'm thinking now that a simultaneous release would've still only yielded 500k at best.  Japan just trends differently from the rest of the world.



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ElGranCabeza on 22 December 2010

I called it. SE wasted time and money releasing this in Japan, and before anyone say anything about the game was already done and yada yada yada, they had to do work on the game to include an easy money and a book or some shit like that. I doubt this game sold enough to even pay the 2 interns that worked on those things.

I shall now laugh out loud at the people who were predicting 200k LTD and/or 100k week 1. Hell, I shall laugh at people who were predicting 100k LTD and 50k week 1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.



ElGranCabeza on 22 December 2010
Darth Tigris said:
jpain333 said:

releasing it a year later was pointless and destined to be a failure, if it released the same week as the PS3 version in Japan it would have done at least 100k-300k lifetime....


Looking at all software sales in Japan, the best selling 360 games has been Ace Combat 6 with ... 217k.  Only 3 games have sold over 200k (AC6, Blue Dragon and Star Ocean 4).  You would think a HUGE game like FFXIII would sell significantly more, but yeah I'm thinking now that a simultaneous release would've still only yielded 500k at best.  Japan just trends differently from the rest of the world.


A simultaneous FFXIII PS3/360 release would've yielded about 250k copies on the 360 at best. There's no way in hell it would've sold 500k on 360. Ever since the PS3 Slim came out and the PS3 picked up steam in JP, MS has given up on that market, and for good reason as it's a very small and dying market in the console space nowadays, they concentrated their efforts on the EU and especially the US market and the results are being shown on the weekly charts.



Kennyheart on 22 December 2010

FF13 plus 360 plus japan= Low sales.

SE you are like 11 months late to ride the FF 13 hype to release it on 360.



M.U.G.E.N on 22 December 2010
ElGranCabeza said:

I called it. SE wasted time and money releasing this in Japan, and before anyone say anything about the game was already done and yada yada yada, they had to do work on the game to include an easy money and a book or some shit like that. I doubt this game sold enough to even pay the 2 interns that worked on those things.

I shall now laugh out loud at the people who were predicting 200k LTD and/or 100k week 1. Hell, I shall laugh at people who were predicting 100k LTD and 50k week 1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


"you" should be the last one to laugh at other peoples 'predictions' >_>



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ElGranCabeza on 22 December 2010
M.U.G.E.N said:
ElGranCabeza said:

I called it. SE wasted time and money releasing this in Japan, and before anyone say anything about the game was already done and yada yada yada, they had to do work on the game to include an easy money and a book or some shit like that. I doubt this game sold enough to even pay the 2 interns that worked on those things.

I shall now laugh out loud at the people who were predicting 200k LTD and/or 100k week 1. Hell, I shall laugh at people who were predicting 100k LTD and 50k week 1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


"you" should be the last one to laugh at other peoples 'predictions' >_>


How's GT5 doing in Japan? Out of the Top 20 in 3 weeks, must suck, but at least someone saw it coming, i.e., me.



Jay520 on 22 December 2010
M.U.G.E.N said:
ElGranCabeza said:

I called it. SE wasted time and money releasing this in Japan, and before anyone say anything about the game was already done and yada yada yada, they had to do work on the game to include an easy money and a book or some shit like that. I doubt this game sold enough to even pay the 2 interns that worked on those things.

I shall now laugh out loud at the people who were predicting 200k LTD and/or 100k week 1. Hell, I shall laugh at people who were predicting 100k LTD and 50k week 1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


"you" should be the last one to laugh at other peoples 'predictions' >_>


LOL



snfr on 22 December 2010
ElGranCabeza said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
ElGranCabeza said:

I called it. SE wasted time and money releasing this in Japan, and before anyone say anything about the game was already done and yada yada yada, they had to do work on the game to include an easy money and a book or some shit like that. I doubt this game sold enough to even pay the 2 interns that worked on those things.

I shall now laugh out loud at the people who were predicting 200k LTD and/or 100k week 1. Hell, I shall laugh at people who were predicting 100k LTD and 50k week 1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


"you" should be the last one to laugh at other peoples 'predictions' >_>


How's GT5 doing in Japan? Out of the Top 20 in 3 weeks, must suck, but at least someone saw it coming, i.e., me.

Didn't you predict 5-6m (or even 4-5m) LT for GT5 WW? Yeah, must suck, because it already has over 4m sales in just 4 weeks.

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Expected. I wouldn't be surprised if it even sold less than 10k.



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sad.man.loves.vgc on 22 December 2010

Too late, word of mouth destroyed the game. The game SUCKED!!! PS3 owners had to eat the bullet