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Forums - Sales - Global UP ! SW & HW (4th February)

UK Sw is Up. Strong performance from PS3 FFXIII-2, once again Xbox 360 version is low though.

@zim

you can't compare two genre's. Soulccalibur port is easier than XIII-2 port etc. It's like me comparing sales of COD PS3 with sales of ME PS3 and making a sales conclusion.



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Weird, PS3 dropped 10k in Europe even with the FF release, while 360 only dropd 3k.
And next week the Wii will start selling below 100k.



ethomaz said:
Seems like the software sales has been fixed now but most of them received a little drop (<100k)... I guess there are more fix in the data... so I will expect the Global Up to show the adjustments.

Do you know which?



 

Keep final fantasy exclusive to Sony platforms. I am sure Square enix will look at the sales of the 360 version and keep versus 13 exclusive to ps3. It doesnt make sense to waste money on porting a game when it will barely sell a million on the 360.



maverick40 said:
Keep final fantasy exclusive to Sony platforms. I am sure Square enix will look at the sales of the 360 version and keep versus 13 exclusive to ps3. It doesnt make sense to waste money on porting a game when it will barely sell a million on the 360.

Exactly. Keeping it exclusive will increase the hype and allow them to focus on one platform thus increasing quality.



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maverick40 said:
Keep final fantasy exclusive to Sony platforms. I am sure Square enix will look at the sales of the 360 version and keep versus 13 exclusive to ps3. It doesnt make sense to waste money on porting a game when it will barely sell a million on the 360.


'waste' money? It's significantly easier to port/dev on X360, and if this gets to 400k/500k then was worth their while.



 

Seece said:
ethomaz said:
Seems like the software sales has been fixed now but most of them received a little drop (<100k)... I guess there are more fix in the data... so I will expect the Global Up to show the adjustments.

Do you know which?

Almost all games in the TOP20 (I checked just that) from last week dropped 100-200k early and now the drop is > 100k.

Edit - I checked the this games: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=139135 (week end 21st January) .



Seece said:
maverick40 said:
Keep final fantasy exclusive to Sony platforms. I am sure Square enix will look at the sales of the 360 version and keep versus 13 exclusive to ps3. It doesnt make sense to waste money on porting a game when it will barely sell a million on the 360.


'waste' money? It's significantly easier to port/dev on X360, and if this gets to 400k/500k then was worth their while.

How can you justify 400k as worth their time??? Do you really think they will be happy with 400k sales with a user base of over 60 million? There is a sales gap of approximately 3 million between the 360 and the ps3 versions of the same final fantasy XIII game. That is a massive gap for such a hyped and well known franchise.  



sales2099 said:
243,586 > 19, 756

This is why headstarts are nice. Take note Sony.


Did you learn how to compare numbers all by yourself? Good for you.

But lets wait until the PSV is released in ALL territories before making troll statements like you have here.



maverick40 said:
Seece said:
maverick40 said:
Keep final fantasy exclusive to Sony platforms. I am sure Square enix will look at the sales of the 360 version and keep versus 13 exclusive to ps3. It doesnt make sense to waste money on porting a game when it will barely sell a million on the 360.


'waste' money? It's significantly easier to port/dev on X360, and if this gets to 400k/500k then was worth their while.

How can you justify 400k as worth their time??? Do you really think they will be happy with 400k sales with a user base of over 60 million? There is a sales gap of approximately 3 million between the 360 and the ps3 versions of the same final fantasy XIII game. That is a massive gap for such a hyped and well known franchise.  

Not every game (sku!) can sell millions you know. I don't know the amount of effort and time that went into -2 but given it's based on FFXIII and it's out not so long after, yeah I think 400k is fine, of course neither of us know if they've made money on that or not, I think it's likely they have, like I said porting to 360 is piss easy and probably didn't take much effort.

I think would have been foolish for them to believe 'exclusive hype' (for which you're really overestimating by the sounds of it) would have generated an extra 400k sales.