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reaver_x on 19 September 2009
sega4life said:
reaver_x said:
sega4life said:
reaver_x said:
FFXIII will certainly help things but it needs to come out already

I don't remember Final Fantasy being a huge seller in NA...

This Link doesn't show much, but it shows a little of sales for NA..

 

huh??wat??? ummm...not factoring in the spin-offs here but uhhhh the main series games seem to sell pretty well. Sure its not equal to Japan sales but it still sells huge numbers. Wow watever crack ur on plzz just..just plz get off it right now

nope.. not on crack..

Just never remember a big selling of FF in NA after FF7

I remember allot of hype on FF10, but then that was it..

o.O??????what???!!!!! soooo if dosent equal Japan or if it dosent sell more than Japan then it sold poorly??? ur logic confuses me and probably eveyone here. FFX sold 3 million in Japan and 2 million in US that looks pretty damn good to me.




 

 

                     

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darthdevidem01 on 19 September 2009
dobby985 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
FF13 will BREAK the term JRPG in America & will sell A LOT....

I think S-E wants it to do that, I feel it can.

Best selling FF ever?

yes as long as famitsu's japanese prediction doesn't happen



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huaxiong90 on 19 September 2009
reaver_x said:
huaxiong90 said:
kowenicki said:
There is a chance that FFXIII doesnt deliver... then what for the Japanese gaming industry... A radical rethink will be required.

It's like I said, man. They need to look at Western gaming tastes. Yoichi Wada says he has the Western market in mind for future FF and Dragon Quest games, so we'll see how things pan out.

sooo ur solution is make it a shooter??? if that happens..i wont be buying their games anymore

Yeah, I really said that...*sigh*

I just said that they should look at the tastes of Western gamers and take them into account. Not all Western games are shooters. Look at past games by Oddworld Inhabitants, Naughty Dog, and Insomniac for example.



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reaver_x on 19 September 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
dobby985 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
FF13 will BREAK the term JRPG in America & will sell A LOT....

I think S-E wants it to do that, I feel it can.

Best selling FF ever?

yes as long as famitsu's japanese prediction doesn't happen

im just curious Darth. Just much sales were u expecting for the game over there??? The install base of the PS3 is nothing like the PS2 install base when FFX/FFXII was released. That does factor in u no




 

 

                     

Kantor on 19 September 2009

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dobby985 on 19 September 2009
reaver_x said:
darthdevidem01 said:
dobby985 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
FF13 will BREAK the term JRPG in America & will sell A LOT....

I think S-E wants it to do that, I feel it can.

Best selling FF ever?

yes as long as famitsu's japanese prediction doesn't happen

im just curious Darth. Just much sales were u expecting for the game over there??? The install base of the PS3 is nothing like the PS2 install base when FFX/FFXII was released. That does factor in u no

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sega4life on 19 September 2009
reaver_x said:
sega4life said:
reaver_x said:
sega4life said:
reaver_x said:
FFXIII will certainly help things but it needs to come out already

I don't remember Final Fantasy being a huge seller in NA...

This Link doesn't show much, but it shows a little of sales for NA..

 

huh??wat??? ummm...not factoring in the spin-offs here but uhhhh the main series games seem to sell pretty well. Sure its not equal to Japan sales but it still sells huge numbers. Wow watever crack ur on plzz just..just plz get off it right now

nope.. not on crack..

Just never remember a big selling of FF in NA after FF7

I remember allot of hype on FF10, but then that was it..

o.O??????what???!!!!! soooo if dosent equal Japan or if it dosent sell more than Japan then it sold poorly??? ur logic confuses me and probably eveyone here. FFX sold 3 million in Japan and 2 million in US that looks pretty damn good to me.

lol dude relax.. take a breath..

I simply implied that FF doesn't seem to have a huge following in NA anymore..

 I remember people hyping the heck out of FF10, like it was a FF7 remake.. but after a few weeks on the market nobody talked about it..

And just look at the install base of DS and PSP, then look at the FF series sales for those handhelds.. just not that big in NA anymore..

Heck, look at FF games on PS2 after FF10, they just go down..



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reaver_x on 19 September 2009
sega4life said:
reaver_x said:
sega4life said:
reaver_x said:
sega4life said:
reaver_x said:
FFXIII will certainly help things but it needs to come out already

I don't remember Final Fantasy being a huge seller in NA...

This Link doesn't show much, but it shows a little of sales for NA..

 

huh??wat??? ummm...not factoring in the spin-offs here but uhhhh the main series games seem to sell pretty well. Sure its not equal to Japan sales but it still sells huge numbers. Wow watever crack ur on plzz just..just plz get off it right now

nope.. not on crack..

Just never remember a big selling of FF in NA after FF7

I remember allot of hype on FF10, but then that was it..

o.O??????what???!!!!! soooo if dosent equal Japan or if it dosent sell more than Japan then it sold poorly??? ur logic confuses me and probably eveyone here. FFX sold 3 million in Japan and 2 million in US that looks pretty damn good to me.

lol dude relax.. take a breath..

I simply implied that FF doesn't seem to have a huge following in NA anymore..

 I remember people hyping the heck out of FF10, like it was a FF7 remake.. but after a few weeks on the market nobody talked about it..

And just look at the install base of DS and PSP, then look at the FF series sales for those handhelds.. just not that big in NA anymore..

Heck, look at FF games on PS2 after FF10, they just go down..

some of those handheld games i saw actually sold more in NA than Japan. FFXI was an MMO so i can understand why that didnt sit well with FF fans and FFXII didnt have a feel of an FF game. But regardless they all sold impressive numbers worldwide.




 

 

                     

huaxiong90 on 19 September 2009
Kantor said:
Nintendo, Capcom and Konami are doing fine.

Because they are international companies, so they know the gaming tastes of both Japan and the West.



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Aion on 19 September 2009
kowenicki said:
Easily solved

Make some decent games. Japanese games this gen have been pretty poor in the main.

Agreed, Japanese devs need to make there games better.



 

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