Dissidia 2 Hanging In The Balance

(Posted: 01/11/2009) by Ronin90

Dissidia: Final Fantasy has now been out for a few months in the West, but its sales figures are actually quite low in comparison to those from Japan, and even lower when compared to that of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII's.

While this might not seem like a big deal on the surface, it may actually prohibit the release of any kind of sequel, as Square Enix stated that a sequel would be based on its Western sales.

The only thing that's really unsure is whether or not Dissidia's sales have so far been good enough. According to VGChartz, its North American sales don't even rank inside the Top 50, with it even being outsold by Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. Its European sales are even worse, with it looking very unlikely to even sell 250,000 units. After seeing how well the game did in Japan, surely Square Enix have to be pretty disappointed that its North American sales are only around 1/3 of its Japanese.

Many people have stated that they wanted to play as characters that weren't in Dissidia, but it looks like they'll still have to buy the game if they want that chance. A slight cliché, of course, but publishers are going to try every tactic they can to shift their product. Or maybe people are just holding off on Dissidia: Final Fantasy, as they are hoping that Universal Tuning will be released in the West - they probably shouldn't hold their breath though.

Please everyone go out and buy this game we need a sequel.PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.finalfantasyunion.com/news/dissidia-2-hanging-in-the-balance--668.html

simply make the sequel on ps3 the lest pirated console out there

What the hell???? This game sold almost 2 M, on a portable console, and S-E is still complaining???? How come??? This is pure and blatant stupidity from S-E part, this game has shown that it can sell, plus it was more of an experience, they shouldn't even expect this game to pull FF numbers when it isn't a FF per se.

I'll encourage people to buy this game, mainly because it's the best PSP game available and it's trully great, but S-E are just being idioticaly greedy.

Who cares??...how bout something fresh from SE...They are killin the legendary status of FF

How is Dissidia killing the legendary name of FF?

i luv dissidia and all but SE should rlly foucs on teh number FF

Dissidia isnt...SE is...im expecting FF: Chocobo Kart soon

Sorry for the missunderstanding there then Xxain. You're right, they are bringing down the name of FF, even if they do release something good from time to time. I just hope they do realise what is good, like Dissidia and the next numbered FF, instead of focusing on just rehashing and re-releasing the enenth remake of a old FF game

it sold 2mil!! god they where lucky to get that much

They should had included more characters. Only 2 characters from each game is a bit lame, even more so comparing it to Tales of VS, which had tons of characters.