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Viktor said:
bluedawgs said:

There is nothing that indicates that western sales for FFXV will be lower than Final Fantasy 13

 

(lol, I love how Boutros says FFXV could be the best selling entry in the west, then you say there is nothing that indicates that, and then you immediately say it looks like FFXV will decline for 13 in the west, even though there is absolutely nothing that indicates that. shows bias)

It´s an educated prediction based on the general voiced reception of Final Fantasy in general and FF15 in particular, in the West and the lackluster sales performance of most games with clear Japanese aestetics in general on PS4 and Xboxone. The main character basically is Sasuke from Naruto. It also doesn´t help that FF related products haven´t performed well in the West after FF13 and that´s a long time ago.

But I love how a really likely prediction was worth to you calling out, while the argument that can be basically reduced to "Japan doesn´t count" with an imo unrealistic optimism for western sales gets a free pass.

Because that's not what he said lol. You literally just made that up. He said if Square Enix only cared about Japan then mainline Final Fantasy games would have been on handheld a long time ago, but Square Enix does not only care about Japan. They care about their western sales as well and arguably more than they do Japan nowadays considering the western oriented style that FFXV has. It's open world, it's no longer turn based, got a car, etc. No where did Boutros state that Japan sales don't count nor did he imply it.



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bluedawgs said:
Viktor said:

It´s an educated prediction based on the general voiced reception of Final Fantasy in general and FF15 in particular, in the West and the lackluster sales performance of most games with clear Japanese aestetics in general on PS4 and Xboxone. The main character basically is Sasuke from Naruto. It also doesn´t help that FF related products haven´t performed well in the West after FF13 and that´s a long time ago.

But I love how a really likely prediction was worth to you calling out, while the argument that can be basically reduced to "Japan doesn´t count" with an imo unrealistic optimism for western sales gets a free pass.

Because that's not what he said lol. You literally just made that up. He said if Square Enix only cared about Japan then mainline Final Fantasy games would have been on handheld a long time ago, but Square Enix does not only care about Japan. They care about their western sales as well and arguably more than they do Japan nowadays considering the western oriented style that FFXV has. It's open world, it's no longer turn based, got a car, etc. No where did Boutros state that Japan sales don't count nor did he imply it.

 

World of Final Fantasy is the exact opposit and it doesn´t look to be successful either, even compared to newcomers like the most recent Monster Hunter Stories.

Two of the most successful FF games had motorcycles and cars as well, and were as open world as the technical limitation allowed back in the day, I´m specifically talking about FF7 and FF8. Beeing open world surely isn´t one of the reasons why FF15 so far still didn´t catch on in Japan. It´s quite the opposit actually, FF games were among the most open world games you could get on consoles back in the day. In fact only FF10 and FF13 are really restrictively linear. More than anything else it´s just the logical evolution.



Wonder how will do atelier firis, it will release on november 2nd, and no sign that we will see it in the chart



 



Pokemon wtf! Do more dammit



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Looks like all the Vita games id indeed bomb this week. Particularly Macross. Reco Love did petty poorly too!



Not bad Battlefield 1. Not bad...



Gundam is so hot right now!
It looks like Battlefield 1 had a great launch. :D