(Japan) it makes no sense for SE to keep FF XIII exclusive

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spaces4362 on 10 December 2008

Final Fantasy XIII will release in Japan for the Xbox 360 a little after the game is released in North America.

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because japan 360 sales = almost non existant. Plus i believe that they felt a loyalty to sony and would like to push console sales in that territory. Y spend the resources to make a japanese version that sales 250,000 copies max. Prolly less actually as i dont believe any self respecting japanese gamer would only have an xbox

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Tyrannical on 11 December 2008

SE used to be loyaly to Nintendo too. Any loyalty to Sony was killed by poor PS3 sales, because loyalty doesn't pay the bills.

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numonex on 11 December 2008

SE will miss out on sales and $$$ if FF XIII remains exclusive for PS3 in Japan.
PS3 version of FF XIII could sell around 2 million in Japan region alone.
500k to 1 million copies of FF XIII of XBox 360 sold in Japan would be icing on the cake.

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Millennium on 11 December 2008

numonex said:
SE will miss out on sales and $$$ if FF XIII remains exclusive for PS3 in Japan.
PS3 version of FF XIII could sell around 2 million in Japan region alone.
500k to 1 million copies of FF XIII of XBox 360 sold in Japan would be icing on the cake.

Very unlikely. That would require a system-to-software ratio of over 50%: a ratio that even GTA4 and Halo 3 have been unable to accomplish in any region. Final Fantasy has never even begun to approach that figure -not even in the best of times- and the 360 fanbase is far less inclined toward JRPGs than the PS3 fanbase is. I doubt FFXIII/360 would even break 200,000 copies in Japan, and that simply isn't enough of an increase in sales to justify the cost of back-localizing it.

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CrazzyMan on 12 December 2008

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 PS3 175k
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 360 9.2k

THIS. =)
it make sno sense releasing game on x360 in Japan, because japanese always buy PS3 version, if they have a choice. These sales are, when games were released at same time. NOBODY will wait for x360 version in Japan.
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Gran Turismo 3 - 1,06 mln. in 3 weeks with around 4 mln. PS2 on the launch.
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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.
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Darth Tigris on 13 December 2008

Millennium said:

numonex said:
SE will miss out on sales and $$$ if FF XIII remains exclusive for PS3 in Japan.
PS3 version of FF XIII could sell around 2 million in Japan region alone.
500k to 1 million copies of FF XIII of XBox 360 sold in Japan would be icing on the cake.

Very unlikely. That would require a system-to-software ratio of over 50%: a ratio that even GTA4 and Halo 3 have been unable to accomplish in any region. Final Fantasy has never even begun to approach that figure -not even in the best of times- and the 360 fanbase is far less inclined toward JRPGs than the PS3 fanbase is. I doubt FFXIII/360 would even break 200,000 copies in Japan, and that simply isn't enough of an increase in sales to justify the cost of back-localizing it.

Now that's just crazy talk. Blue Dragon sold more than that to a MUCH smaller install base. Considering a late 2009 release, 500k wouldn't be unrealistic at all based on the potential growth of the install base by that time.