Nah, the Capcom guy himself said he was counting what was shipped out along with it.

Has to be World Wide.

They have to just be off.

It's hard if not impossible to track games that sell so poorly... so being off would be very possible and very likely.

A lot of the times you just have to "guess" which is going to be the case when you are missing some major retailers like Walmart. 

Down tiger, I'm on your side here, and you'll notice that I did think Seven changed the gameplay. My problem is that I just don't feel that it was in a direction that is for me.

 I, and many others, feel that way is that we think better graphics, CG sequences, and all the other things that Final Fantasy VII introduced into the RPG genre are nothing more than tools to tell a story. The problem is that Squaresoft began to focus more on using these tools for their own sake, rather than to improve their method of storytelling. I'll be the first to tell you that seeing some of the sequences blew me away visually. But by the end of the story, I personally didn't care about the characters, the world, or anything else, and I blame much of that on Squaresoft's focusing its energy on the icing, while neglecting the cake. Had they used their new graphical prowess to tell a story of Chrono Trigger's quality, I would have been estatic. In fact, I rather enjoyed Final Fantasy Nine, because it was a step in precisely that direction. But none of the other Fantasy games after VII captured that magic for me.

I realize, of course, that not everyone feels this way, and that quite a few of you could relate to that game better than I did. That's fair enough. But when it comes to my own individual opinion, VII and its ilk just didn't do it for me. If you liked it, then more power to you, especially since Square-Enix is favoring your side of the equation. But I'm afraid that I, personally, hopped off the bandwagon at that point. Sorry if that offends you in some way. But we are getting WAY off-topic here, so if you'd like to continue this discussion, feel free to send me a private message (along with instructions on how to use the system; I'm rather new at this...)

Okami came late in the PS2s lifetime and sold 270-280k. The Wii version will probably sell 63k first week (just guessing). So assuming the Wii goes onto last another 4 years, that give Okami plenty of time to gain word of mouth notoriety and push past the sales of its PS2 counterpart. I throw 420k lifetime sales out there. Hopefully it hits 500k someday in the near future.

 I actually found SNES graphics superior to FF7's graphics as a whole.  I'd much rather look at FF6's sprites then FF7's ugly polygons.  Honestly i'd rather look at FF1's sprites.  FF7 was a case of them going 3-D one game too soon.

...because the gameplay from VII is the exact same as VI with limit breaks added and individual talents removed.

You love FFVII's gameplay right? Welp, VI has slightly better gameplay, and VII's gameplay was an exact replica of it.

Also, FFVI had a better story than VII, while at the same time, inventing the epic storyline in JRPG's.

That said, I love FFVII, and VIII just as much as VI, I just feel the VI is the superior game because it did it all just as well as VII and VIII, but it did it years before, and invented everything it did. VII just copied it exactly and added new graphics and dialogue.

That's how I feel. Don't hate VII haters. They are mostly elitists that think VI doesnt' get enough credit, so they flame VII for copying. Real fans of the series should respect its evolution and know that most games in the FF series are magnificant.

Chrono Trigger is inferior to VI and VII imo, just to clear that up. 

that's the magic of materia, that you could build any jobclass for the characters, eventhough everyone had it's own jobclass in it's stats of course, like Aeris ;s magical power, materia gives you so many options and custumisation that saying every character is the same is a little cheap, plus the characters are all icons themselfs, like Cloud, Sephiroth, Aeris, Vincet, Rufus, Cid Highwind and Tifa and Aeris, they have their own legacy and following, which you can't say about other casts on a scale like this, Normura's finest work I think

You can beat the Zolum at level 15, I believe. Learn Fire 2 and junction it with your armor using the materia form the mayor in the shinra building. Equip it to Barret, and have Tifa posion the monster, so you don't get hit by its counterattacks. Her job is now to heal and attack when the monster is low enough life to counter with Beta(it'll just let itself tick away with an attack) then barret will survive Beta thanks to the Fire 2 junction and now you've got Beta around level 15, and can own the whole first disc.

I've done it three times, lol.

True, the customization of each character is good, but it's also a double edged sword as WoW pointed out. You don't have a Job system at all, and that irks a lot of Final Fantasy fans who tend to prefer the IX VI way of doing things where each character has a specific ability, like Rage, or Machine.

Still, I think most people who haven't played VI in a while, undersimate it. It's possibly the best game of all time.

...but then again, that can be said for numerous games in the FF series.

I'll admit, the "feel" of VII on some of the earlier dungeons is magnificant, and I've never felt precisely that emotionally involved in a game since then. VII's presentation is simply magnificant. 

Killing it was the easy part.  When I say 19-21, that's killing it AND learning Beta.

Are we still talking about Okami? Because that's a pretty crappy first week.