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Its more likely than you may think... 

it will sell well the first week, from then on is an arguable matter though. FF games always sell well on the PSP, there one of three types of games that do.

I wonder if the special edition FF PSP is released on the same date as the game? If so, then there's a straight 77k on the first day. I wonder what the preorders will be as well.

My guess is:

1st day - 200k
1st week - 350k

I reckon this game will slowly build up momentum. I don't know what the advertising for it is like in JP?

Yeah, we all seem to be thinking about the same numbers. It's a big FF game, and truthfully looking at Japanese sales history it's possible for it to be as high as 750K to 1 million first week (ala Monster Hunter Freedom 2nd). The problem is PSP games tend to be VERY top heavy in Japan. That's not to say all games aren't top heavy everywhere, but look at MHF2:

Week 1: 741,780
Week 2: 150,498

After that it steadily declines over the course of the next month and a half to negligible sales, but sells strongly (between 90K and 50K) for another few weeks. It will be interesting to see how it does in the weeks following it's launch.

Not so sure about grand sales that many expect. Most of PSP are modded, piracy is huge on PSP, at least twice as bigger than on PS2 and 360 for example. Generally software doesnt sell that well on PSP, only a few games on PSP have broken 1 million mark and that thing has been on market for almost 3 years.

I predict 150k-300k first week

I think anything below 300k first week can be described only as a MEGA FLOP and a certain end of S-E support towards PSP.

 Yup i agree, and that is  most likely going to happened. End of 2008 they port it to PS2 to recover losses.

Not only does it have Final Fantasy VII in its name (guaranteed million seller), but it looks like a pretty decent game. Definitely quintuple digits on the first week.

Seeing as the top selling PSP game in Japan so far has only sold 1.3M, I don't think this is going to top 3M worldwide.

CRISIS CORE: FINAL FANTASY VII: REVIEWED

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Square's new Final Fantasy VII-based RPG for the PSP, was reviewed this week in Famitsu, scoring 35 out of 40 (three 9s and an 8). It'll be released next week, available either alone or as a bundle with the new, slimmer PSP. The standalone slim PSP won't be released until September 20th.



Information on the game, at last, has been detailed in Famitsu. Apparently, the battle system relies on heavy use of . . . slot machines. And the core of the story is the same mysterious event that served as the nexus of Final Fantasy VII -- that being the event wherein the legendary soldier Sephiroth went crazy, and burned down a village. Thinking about it all these years later, it was, perhaps, a rather mature brand of storytelling. The entire game's epic story really did center on just one incident in the past. It's evident they put a lot of money into Crisis Core, though part of me wishes they would just analyze why Final Fantasy VII was successful instead of knowing it'll be successful again.

Is the game an RPG? Or was it this "dramatic action" (??) genre?

I'm 100% sure it will do more than 300k week#1 - esp. with the PSPslim just released. More likely to be closer to 750k.