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sales2099 said:
243,586 > 19, 756

This is why headstarts are nice. Take note Sony.

wow you are a smart one for sure!!!

199,135 ps3 > 1,240 Xbox 360

See what I did there???



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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.  

Will you be saying this when Mass Effect 3 (360) rapes the Ps3 version?

Porting is a fairly cheap, they may not be thrilled because of the potential that is there, but it's hard to argue that they would actually regret it. Plus Seece was being way too generous with the 400k/500k estimates.



Still trying to understand if all SW is up or just the US and UK



Final Fantasy 13-2:
PS3: 87.1% market share
360: 19.2% market share

Damn that hurts. Square Enix are you watching (re beginning of the generation where all great JRPGs went on 360 [Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Star Ocean Last Hope).

Software sales down everywhere; obviously after the holidays but I feel that this generation has peaked for software (people beginning to ignore new IPs and games)



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Aj_habfan said:
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.  

Will you be saying this when Mass Effect 3 (360) rapes the Ps3 version?

Porting is a fairly cheap, they may not be thrilled because of the potential that is there, but it's hard to argue that they would actually regret it. Plus Seece was being way too generous with the 400k/500k estimates.

Not a good comparisson in the slightest. Mass effect 2 (ps3) released nearly exactly a year after the 360 version and still managed to sell about a million copies. For a port of a year old game, it sold quite well. Final fantasy XIII-2 launched simultaneaously on both platforms. 

Mass effect 3 will obviously sell more on the 360 but 3 million more......never. 



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maverick40 said:
Aj_habfan said:
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.  

Will you be saying this when Mass Effect 3 (360) rapes the Ps3 version?

Porting is a fairly cheap, they may not be thrilled because of the potential that is there, but it's hard to argue that they would actually regret it. Plus Seece was being way too generous with the 400k/500k estimates.

Not a good comparisson in the slightest. Mass effect 2 (ps3) released nearly exactly a year after the 360 version and still managed to sell about a million copies. For a port of a year old game, it sold quite well. Final fantasy XIII-2 launched simultaneaously on both platforms. 

Mass effect 3 will obviously sell more on the 360 but 3 million more......never. 

Think you got a little too carried away with the Mass Effect comment, the meaning was more that I think you are letting your personal bias cloud your judgement on this one.

I don't know what arbritray milestones you have set up, but at the end of the day, Square-Enix will not be complaining about hundreds of thousands (potential a million) extra sales for such little work. That's really all it comes down to.



Exactly what I predicted for FFXIII-2! I was pretty sure the pre-orders were overtracked and I knew it would not beat FFXIII first week but I think those numbers are really good. I hope it can have better legs.



Rob-Ot said:
Rafux said:
FF XIII killed the franchise.

This makes no sense at all considering it's launched only around 200-300K beneath FFXIII which is expected for a FF sequel. 

If XIII-2 proves anything then its that FF is far from dead.


The damage is done.



http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40944/Europe/

2
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (X360)
Square Enix, Role-Playing
1 145,421 145,421

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40944/USA/

2
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (X360)
Square Enix, Role-Playing
1 152,118 152,118

 

why you guys think OP's number is right?

400k?what's that,don't tell me it's life time sales



maverick40 said:
sales2099 said:
243,586 > 19, 756

This is why headstarts are nice. Take note Sony.

wow you are a smart one for sure!!!

199,135 ps3 > 1,240 Xbox 360

See what I did there???


Lifetime 360 sales > Lifetime PS3 sales.

But lets not get sidetracked. I know its hard to see 3ds giving the Vita such a beating :)



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