This has nothing to do with "sticking to the topic" , You just chose to ignore the fact that XIII-2 is ahead of XIII in the US, you could have just said that it is "irrelevant" to they guy who gave you the link. I agree BTW , preorders charts can be misleading.

Anyways, I agree that the franchise took a major hits in the last few years , not only because of XIII and XIV but also the terrible managing and blind decisions of SE as a whole, reaping what they sowed , which is awesome .. except that I'm worried about Versus :(

Oh I'm not a big FF fan really.  TBH FFXIII is the only one I've played and it was only okay.  I agree and was just noting that given it seemed to get quite well reviewed it shows how big the impact of FFXIII likely was on its sales.  I think SE really hasn't made good choices throughout the gen for the most part - and as you say the impact is showing.

This is definitely seems to be the case.  I expected FF13-2 to push the PS3 to about 100K, if not a little over.  But it's just like another member put it earlier, this is a sequel no one was asking for.  And while I'm sure some people liked FF13 and its characters, according to these numbers, it wasn't the majority of gamers.  Square really should have let Nomura and his staff work full time on finishing FFV13 (which seems to be the only FF game that people are looking forward to and that might be able to save the FF brand), instead of taking away much of his staff to help complete other SE projects. 

Also, I think it's time for SE to face it, they HAVE to fire Wada.  He is just making bad decisions left and right, as well as being unable to push any of his development teams to complete their projects in a timely fashion (while still being of good quality), and its really bringing the company down.  And even just recently, with it being so obvious where the vast majority of their fans lie (the Playstation), they continue to screw them over and release exclusive DLC for the 360.  This would be like Bungie's next game favoring the PS3 with exclusive DLC, even though the majority of their fans lie on the 360.

I don't know about some of those other games, but Kirby games are awesome, and it seems like casuals love things like Just Dance.

Besides, Zelda isn't doing too badly. It's just a series that drops off a bit quickly in Japan, and requires a peripheral to boot. I expect it'll ultimately sell around 400,000 to 500,000, which would put it into the top 30 Wii games of all time over there. It's no Monster Hunter, but Japan loves their Kirby more and Zelda less than Westerners.

Wow, what a horrible FF debut and disappointing PS3 numbers. TBH I didn't expect it to sell gangbusters , but I thought it'd do 80,000 at least.

Good Vita launch, but it needs to keep momentum going.

HOLY SHIT FF13-BOMBA!!!

Vita outsold by 3DS in it's launch week. WTH happened to all the hype and expectations with the Vita? Bomba too?

Looks like Japan has chosen their handheld console for this gen, 3DS rising to heaven.  PS3 didn't even rise that much as i was expecting. LOL @ Wii. 

Single player RPGs usually don't have legs. They are pretty front loaded in sales and once people finish it, they sell it off. Also considering how nice the used game market is in Japan, they will sell it off.  

Wait wait... 3DS above of Vita on launch? o.O wii only >4K below Ps3 on FF launch?? Did not expect that, for reals...

Wow, good thing the 3DS was already dead months ago....I wonder if MH will sell more than Mario Kart 7 in japan...

It looks like PS3 will come in last place this holidays and will most likely lose to the 360 as the gap between the two is only 800k now. Unless we get some adjustments for the U.S.A.and Europe.

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