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Tbone on 18 July 2008
WiiBox3 said:
Tbone said:
If it was i guess it would sell pretty good and it would move 360 console quite a bit.

 

Do you think it would then become a contender in the market, or continue to be a small presence? (Althogh bigger than it is now?)

Its hard to tell maybe and ps3 userbase isnt so big either anything could happen.

 



 

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Godot on 18 July 2008

SE will lose a lot of money on FFXIII and will need to rethink its strategies not to go bankrupt unless MS would have paid for the exclusivity.



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Godot on 18 July 2008
sc94597 said:

 There are many more RPGS that are popular and some are even more popular(pokemon dragon quest) so I see about half of the fans buying a 360, and the other half abandoning the franchise, and looking elsewhere for RPGS like on the ds.

 

Most of them would abandon the franchise like what will happen to SO.



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WiiBox3 on 18 July 2008
Godot said:
SE will lose a lot of money on FFXIII and will need to rethink its strategies not to go bankrupt unless MS would have paid for the exclusivity.

 

Oh I agree, they would loose money in Japan, but I am sure that MS would have to pay dearly for the exclusive. But I think MS would gladly do it if they think it will help them break the market.



WiiBox3 on 18 July 2008
Tbone said:
WiiBox3 said:
Tbone said:
If it was i guess it would sell pretty good and it would move 360 console quite a bit.

 

Do you think it would then become a contender in the market, or continue to be a small presence? (Althogh bigger than it is now?)

Its hard to tell maybe and ps3 userbase isnt so big either anything could happen.

 

 

Thats true, but it still is much bigger than the 360. All I know is that FFVII was one of the titles that encouraged heavy adoption of the PS1 in Japan.



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mrstickball on 18 July 2008

They would goto that system and buy the system, and it's games.

The Xbox 360 actually has a few decent Japanese-centric games on it that aren't Final Fantasy - tons of JRPGs (far more than the PS3), and they're trying to expand with other J-games from Namco and Capcom.

Overall, I think the X360, if it had XIII exclusively, it'd sell around 5 million consoles in Japan, and reach Dreamcast-like sales.



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WiiBox3 on 18 July 2008
FJ-Warez said:
The 360 will finally reach 1 million... but yeah, I don't know what will happen, it makes more sense to put in on the Wii...

I agree, but Square prides itself on trying to push the limits and show what is possible on the newest tech with it's main FF series. I think that DQ has a better chance of going to the Wii after it's DS release.

 



HappySqurriel on 18 July 2008

Realistically, after the announcement the XBox 360's sales would creep up to 5,000 to 10,000 systems per week, when it was released the XBox 360 would see sales in the 150,000+ range (falling to 40,000 the next week), and then would drop quickly down to the 5,000 range it was selling at before Final Fantasy was released. All things considered, the XBox 360 would (potentially) sell close to 500,000 systems because of it but would remain one of the worst selling systems in Japan that survived an entire generation.



WiiBox3 on 18 July 2008
mrstickball said:
They would goto that system and buy the system, and it's games.

The Xbox 360 actually has a few decent Japanese-centric games on it that aren't Final Fantasy - tons of JRPGs (far more than the PS3), and they're trying to expand with other J-games from Namco and Capcom.

Overall, I think the X360, if it had XIII exclusively, it'd sell around 5 million consoles in Japan, and reach Dreamcast-like sales.

 

The Dreamcast.. Now that was a true cult classic in Japan. There were a ton of truly strage games that released for that system (In Japan only) due to SEGA not regulating adult games like Nintendo and Sony did at that time.



CrazzyMan on 18 July 2008

Maybe japanese would wait for PS3 port?))) Well, if FFXIII after 1 year wouldn`t come on ps3, then probably buy 1-2 mln. x360.



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2009.04.30 - PS3 will OUTSELL x360 atleast by the middle of 2010. Japan+Europe > NA.


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