GE2 vita slowing down again, I wanna see double digits

u just did, stop being so needy :P

With the GE2 demo coming out after launch now, a few people who were waiting to try the demo before preordering might have started just preordering the game instead.

Awesome, GE2 Vita is looking at a 265k opening with 18 days left! Looking at some of the predictions on neogaf makes me laugh. Some say GE2 won't even reach 200k by the end of Nov. but if GE2 keeps the trend of 1pt=1000 sold for Vita games then it could be 350k plus!

Also for you showing amazon rankings for Super Mario 3D World, I find it funny that its up in the top 20 on amazon (18th as i post) but not charting on COMG but Akiba's Trip 2 and Gundam Breaker are 40th and 47th on amazon but are charting on COMG. Really shows the differing demographic between COMG and amazon.

Azran sold 130K FW, but yeah, I believe new LBX will have legs. Just look at Youkai Watch - 50K FW and now it sold over 200K and stayed in TOP 20 all these months from july.

It will be interesting to see if Vita can keep it's momentum going for this month with the steady release of games after it's price drop.

Ah, yes. Let's ignore that Square diverisified in other platforms (mobile and handheld) where they didn't put many games on, while also ignoring the great time required with new hardware. FF13 sold more than X-2 and XII (and every FF before 7), so it's not like it sold badly. FF13-2 and LR are both full fledged titles in the series though. It's not a spin off like Dirge of Cerberus.

Akiba's Trip 2 has been available to pre-order for months, while Mario is recent. If Akiba's Trip received 1k orders/week for 10 weeks, it will obviously have more orders than Mario if the latter had 2k orders/week for 4 weeks.

Without numbers, Amazon is mostly useless.

What's the point of spin offs on mobile and handheld when we're talking mothership titles on consoles ? Also the great time required with new hardware is not a new fact, it is the same thing at every new gen, and this gen was particularly long which gives them more time... Also I never said 13 sold badly, there is a gap between "huge success" and "bad", and of course it sold better than every ff before 7, FF was irrelant in the west to the general public before the 7th.

I don't see what's your trying to justify, facts are simple. FF gamers were used to have three mothership FF by gen, which were totally different and new. This declines a little during the ps2 era with only 2  mothership titles, but this gen is only about 1 FF and its sequels. That is the big the problem. Maybe if the 13 was universally liked and requested for more that would be acceptable, but that is nowhere near the case.

People are just getting saturated with 13 universe.

Yeah, and Fantasy Life went from 100k to 300k + Rerelease with DLC that is around 60-80k.