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Forums - Gaming - Newer JRPG may sell worse but Remake JRPG's sell a lot more

Riachu on 12 July 2008
cwbys21 said:
RPGJock said:
Brainslug said:
Soriku said:
RPGJock said:
Soriku said:
Maybe for DQ and CT...

But FF7? You expect a remake to sell over 10 million copies? Even FF XIII won't sell that much.

 

Woa, big words. For either production. Good luck with that one Soriku.

 

What? You think FF XIII will sell 10 million?

 

I'm with Soriku on this one, I love Final Fantasy but thinking that it would sell over 10 million just seems delusional, no single Final Fantasy has made the 10 million sale mark.

 

 

Honestly, who knows. Maybe the next one will be alienating to the Japanese market. Or maybe next one be herald as the WoW killer. Only thing we know is they are putting big money and time into this one and span the universe over several games. They are almost putting the franchise on the line with one i suppose with it being exclusive to the PS3 (so far). It just seems to me that 8, 9, 10 million people WW could possible pick this game up. We know at least half of that will pick it up because it has FF in the title. 12 proved that.

As for a remake of FF7, nostalga has been running rampant on current gen consoles. To many, 9.75 of them, all went out and bought the PS1 game. That was over 11 years ago. They are still throwing out FF7 branded stuff. After 11 years.

But again honestly, who knows. Just saying it was a very strong statement.

 

Just because hating on SE and FF12 is the popular thing to do on the internet doesn't mean that it is true.

And it is possible that FF13 could sell 10 million units. Is it probable? not really, but it will sell a good amount. It is like some people think that 5+ million copies sold is bad or something just because Halo and GTA sell so much, which is what most FFs do.

The bestselling FF is VII and that sold nearly 10 million copies.  FFXIII can sell 10 million.  It depends on the userbase's size when it comes out.  Then again, it will probably have some impact on the PS3's sales.

 



 

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cwbys21 on 12 July 2008

It depends on how jaw droppingly good it is as much as the user base and the marketing. The xbox's user base wasn't that big yet Halo 2 sold 8.46 million according to our numbers. Of course it is a shooter and it sells easier than jrpgs, but the point is still valid. Hype + HYPE + MORE HYPE + product that is actually good will get you big sales. But I think SE would be very satisfied with 5-6 million like most FF games sell and everything above that is gravy. I'm sure they took that into account when making the budget for the game.



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fkusumot on 12 July 2008

teh pokemons iznt an jrpg no moar?!!!111!!?


I Blame Wii Fit!

MANUELF on 12 July 2008
fkusumot said:

teh pokemons iznt an jrpg no moar?!!!111!!?

Pokemon is not a RPG, IS the RPG.

 



outlawauron on 12 July 2008

Quality of the game is far more important than the size of the userbase at this point. At least in my opinon.



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Riachu on 12 July 2008
outlawauron said:
Quality of the game is far more important than the size of the userbase at this point. At least in my opinon.

Quality games sell better overall than terrible/mediocre games.

 



 

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joseph21 on 12 July 2008

i think ffx sold more around 8 millions.

for now it looks alot better than ffx... but my guess its still around 5 - 7 millions at most.



pichu_pichu on 12 July 2008
MANUELF said:
fkusumot said:

teh pokemons iznt an jrpg no moar?!!!111!!?

Pokemon is not a RPG, IS the RPG.

 

 

agreed with you



ZenfoldorVGI on 12 July 2008

FFXII was a great, if misunderstood game, imo.



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cwbys21 on 12 July 2008

Yeah I loved 12, didn't have to do the boring stuff like casting a spell to get rid of poison, just make the computer do it for you and stuff like that. And no more random battles, it is so hard to go back and play rpgs with random battles after playing 12. It also had a political story instead of the love story that has saturated FF for the last decade. Though it got kind of lost since there was so many side quests that you pretty much had to do to keep some bosses from being overly difficult. If SE can fix that then 13 should be amazing.



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