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Forums - Sales Discussion - FFXIII first shipment is only 1 million???

outlawauron on 13 December 2009
Khuutra said:
kingofwale said:
psrock said:

oh Jesus!

FFXIII cost almost $100 in Japan, and PS3 userbase is very different than the Halo fans in AMERICA. Anything over 1 million is fine with me, I have a feeling this game will havesomething FF games never had " LEGS"

is it really?? PS3 owners in Japan vs xbox box owner in America???

also, the 'high' price of FFXIII is only so due to your conversion using the extremely weak US dollars.

Again: I'm pretty much positive that Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy always have a premium price attached to their names.

That's true. Every Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest has cost tons. Final Fantasy VI costed ~$115 iirc.



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Acevil on 13 December 2009
dolemit3 said:
The additional shipping is 150k for the weekdays (Thursday + Friday) and another 150k for the weekend (Sat. + Sun.), that's what GAFers are saying.

I don't think they will shop 150k on thursday, since that is the day of the original shipment. I could be wrong but I think it will be 1300k shipment for the first week.



 

outlawauron on 13 December 2009
dolemit3 said:
The additional shipping is 150k for the weekdays (Thursday + Friday) and another 150k for the weekend (Sat. + Sun.), that's what GAFers are saying.

That makes sense.



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Majin-Tenshinhan on 13 December 2009
Acevil said:
dolemit3 said:
The additional shipping is 150k for the weekdays (Thursday + Friday) and another 150k for the weekend (Sat. + Sun.), that's what GAFers are saying.

I don't think they will shop 150k on thursday, since that is the day of the original shipment. I could be wrong but I think it will be 1300k shipment for the first week.

Sounds right.



dolemit3 on 13 December 2009
Acevil said:
dolemit3 said:
The additional shipping is 150k for the weekdays (Thursday + Friday) and another 150k for the weekend (Sat. + Sun.), that's what GAFers are saying.

I don't think they will shop 150k on thursday, since that is the day of the original shipment. I could be wrong but I think it will be 1300k shipment for the first week.

Plus 40k units in the bundles.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 13 December 2009

Well this likely means SE expects lifetime Japanese sales of FF13 to be low, as FF games are very frontloaded, so only shipping 1 million first shipment indicates they are expecting probably 1.5 million max for the game in Japan



 

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Khuutra on 13 December 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Well this likely means SE expects lifetime Japanese sales of FF13 to be low, as FF games are very frontloaded, so only shipping 1 million first shipment indicates they are expecting probably 1.5 million max for the game in Japan

Square-Enix doesn't determine first shipment. Retailers do.



Avinash_Tyagi on 13 December 2009
Khuutra said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Well this likely means SE expects lifetime Japanese sales of FF13 to be low, as FF games are very frontloaded, so only shipping 1 million first shipment indicates they are expecting probably 1.5 million max for the game in Japan

Square-Enix doesn't determine first shipment. Retailers do.

Ah, I stand corrected then, retailers expect low lifetime sales then

 

I mean vast majority of FF sales are in the first week

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=Japan&game1=Final+Fantasy+X+-+PS2%5B759%5D&reg2=Japan&game2=Final+Fantasy+XII+-+PS2%5B765%5D&reg3=All&game3=&weeks=10&weekly=1

 



 

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Bruno Muñoz on 13 December 2009

With that small shipment for a main Final Fantasy title it will struggle a lot to sell at least 1.8M copies lifetime, that is the minimum acceptable mark, less than that it is an absolutely failure.



psrock on 13 December 2009
Bruno Muñoz B said:
With that small shipment for a main Final Fantasy title it will struggle a lot to sell at least 1.8M copies lifetime, that is the minimum acceptable mark, less than that it is an absolutely failure.

2nd biggest failure this year in japan.



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