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PooperScooper on 05 July 2008
damkira said:

It was on topic because other than GT5, FFXIII is the next major exclusive for PS3. The largest PS3 exclusive to date has been MGS4 and, while its too early to call it a flop, 185k sales for what is probably one of the biggest budgeted games in history must be uncomfortable for Konami and Sony. It is registering HUGE drops weekly (much more so than comparable games) and will probably pick up sales around the holidays but no way Konami and Sony are happy about it.

If MGS4 disappoints saleswise, it will be very bad for the industry as a whole and Sony in particular.

 

 

 How the fuck is "what game that will be shown at e3 this year will be the best" the same thing as "sony must be scared because mgs4 failed"

 



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lightbleeder on 05 July 2008

I don't think FF13 will playable, so I'm not betting on it to be the biggest game.

Maybe Starcraft 2...



trestres on 05 July 2008

@Pooper: Because Japan is the only place in which a FF has defined a generation.

Plus userbase ratio to game, Japan is Huge, the other regions are just high. Compare GTA with FF in the west, there's no comparison since the difference is extreme.

And if you check, FF X-2 and FFXII have all been decreasing in sales since FFX.

FFXII sold 1 million less than FFX in America.
FFXII sold 1.4 million less than FFX in Others.

While Japan remained almost the same. It's obvious that FF is a big franchise in the west, but not even close to be the biggest, for example Zelda, Mario, Halo, GTA, Smash Bros, GT, Mario Kart, MGS, Gears of War are all bigger. So any game in any of those franchises will be bigger than FFXIII.



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Leetgeek on 05 July 2008
mrstickball said:
No mention of Gears of War 2? Heh. Seems like the Sony fans are out in force today on VGC.

 

I don't mention gears of war 2 because we have a lot more info on GOW2 then we do on FF13.

I think FF13 is the game that people are most egerly looking to get more information about besides a new Zelda which like I said we have absolultly no info about so I doubt there will be a playabble demo @ this years E3.



PooperScooper on 05 July 2008
trestres said:
@Pooper: Because Japan is the only place in which a FF has defined a generation.

Plus userbase ratio to game, Japan is Huge, the other regions are just high. Compare GTA with FF in the west, there's no comparison since the difference is extreme.

And if you check, FF X-2 and FFXII have all been decreasing in sales since FFX.

FFXII sold 1 million less than FFX in America.
FFXII sold 1.4 million less than FFX in Others.

While Japan remained almost the same. It's obvious that FF is a big franchise in the west, but not even close to be the biggest, for example Zelda, Mario, Halo, GTA, Smash Bros, GT, Mario Kart, MGS, Gears of War are all bigger. So any game in any of those franchises will be bigger than FFXIII.

 

 there is about a 14 million difference in GTA sales - west to GTA sales - Japan.... I dont see your point.

Um... if you played FFX2 you would know why it didn't sell as much troll



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Euphoria14 on 05 July 2008
PooperScooper said:
damkira said:

It was on topic because other than GT5, FFXIII is the next major exclusive for PS3. The largest PS3 exclusive to date has been MGS4 and, while its too early to call it a flop, 185k sales for what is probably one of the biggest budgeted games in history must be uncomfortable for Konami and Sony. It is registering HUGE drops weekly (much more so than comparable games) and will probably pick up sales around the holidays but no way Konami and Sony are happy about it.

If MGS4 disappoints saleswise, it will be very bad for the industry as a whole and Sony in particular.

 

 

 How the fuck is "what game that will be shown at e3 this year will be the best" the same thing as "sony must be scared because mgs4 failed"

 

He is 100% right you know.

2+ million sales in 3 weeks = utter failure.

Konami is shaking in their boots at the complete lack of success they are having.

We all know damn well they didn't recieve any money from the iPod, Macbook, PSP, Ericsson, etc... advertisements in the game.

 



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CrazzyMan on 05 July 2008

YES, Final Fantasy 13.

Nothing can stand this E3 against this game.
7-10 mln. sales at least. One of the BEST games EVER.

Though... Gran Turismo 5? Hmm...
Yeah, there will be 2 biggest games this E3. =))



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Gran Turismo 3 - 1,06 mln. in 3 weeks with around 4 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Gran Turismo 4 - 1,16 mln. with 18 mln. PS2 on the launch.

Final Fantasy X - around 2 mln. with 5 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Final Fantasy X-2 - 2.4 mln. with 12 mln. PS2 on the launch.

 

1.8 mln. PS3 today(2008.01.17) in Japan. Now(2009.04.30) 3.16 mln. PS3 were sold in Japan.
PS3 will reach 4 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 25k.

PS3 may reach 5 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 50k.
PS2 2001 vs PS3 2008 sales numbers =) + New games released in Japan by 2009 that passed 100k so far

sc94597 on 05 July 2008
PooperScooper said:
Euphoria14 said:
mrstickball said:
No mention of Gears of War 2? Heh. Seems like the Sony fans are out in force today on VGC.

 

What does liking Final Fantasy have to do with being Sony fans?

 

 Lol great attitude from a mod there.

Of course he leaves out the fact that Sony fans are talking about the topic and leaves out the others arent. that might be the reason behind no one mentioning other than sony titles.

I know for a fact. sc94 pumpkin face mrstickball dmarika trestres arent sony fans/

OF course not, but I am a fan of the final fantasy series(Even if I do think its overrated). Not to mention that the best selling games this generation are nintendo games, and any announcement of Animal Crossing,Wii X, or Zelda will guarantee amazing sales. ON terms of impact. What would be more impacting a game that was never announced and out of the blue was? or A game that was announced had a trailer, and was expected?  He asked a question and we are answering it.

 



damkira on 05 July 2008

That puts enormous pressure on Sony to show that great games are just around the corner. Its the only thing which makes sense for them to do. If FFXIII is shown at E3 it will easily eclipse any announcements from Microsoft or Nintendo (barring a playable Zelda demo, which is extremely unlikely) and Sony REALLy needs that right now to assuage fears about its platform's current  lack of viability to developers.