'I don't recall saying that you were responding to me. If you would be so kind as to point out where I did that, I shall correct myself posthaste.'.

'has any bearing to any of the statements I responded to.'.

Clear as day.

'As I pointed out myself, people were wrong in their sales predictions. But your statement was, and I quote, "[a]nd I love all this 'we all knew Final Fantasy spin offs don't sell in Japan' attitude AFTER the launch." How do pre-release sales predictions relate to that?'.

lul wot?

If general opinion was that CB was going to bomb then that would have been clear from the prediction thread. As is crystal clear (j/k), that's not the case. Sales predictions were high.

Yes, that does clearly establish that I was responding to this post that you made. It does not, however, establish that you were responding to me in that post. I'd be very impressed if you had, since I hadn't posted yet!

Again, I'm not claiming that folks thought the game would bomb before the game launched. You weren't claiming that folks thought the game would bomb before the game launched. Instead, you said "I love all this 'we all knew Final Fantasy spin offs don't sell in Japan' attitude AFTER the launch."

"After" is the key word there.

How will you explain FFXIII selling a fraction of previous titles in Japan?

^

Final Fantasy XI?

No matter how you put it, it's too soon to claim it sold poorly over there, and not every FF game is a hit over there, so we need to wait.

Then make marketing!