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

ChrisIsNotSexy on 13 December 2009

Yeah Pullus...im sure the title of the thread has to be changed to that question



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jarrod on 13 December 2009
Demotruk said:
If this game flops (I'm not saying it will), what does it mean for Square Enix? They've been taking heavy losses for years while making this game...

Well, it won't "flop".  It'll likely undersell Wada's expectations (10m ww), but then so did DQIX (5m JP).



ChrisIsNotSexy on 13 December 2009
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Well noone knows how many of them are FF fans,maybe all of them are lol



DragonLord on 13 December 2009

I really expected over 1 million first week....this could be disappointing.  But oh well, it will still sell well and if demand is higher than supply, we'll just see better legs for it.



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kingofwale on 13 December 2009
ChrisIsNotSexy said:
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Well noone knows how many of them are FF fans,maybe all of them are lol

Didn't Halo 3 do just that??? (and this is not counting all the RRoD xbox, most likely the realistic attachment rate is in the high 60%)



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Acevil on 13 December 2009
ChrisIsNotSexy said:
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Well noone knows how many of them are FF fans,maybe all of them are lol

Pshhh we know Japanese ps3 users are just blu-ray lovers. Yakuza should have sold 3 million on that 4 million userbase. (also I know what i just isn't realistic)



 

dolemit3 on 13 December 2009

Square Enix have only themselves to blame. Apparently the game costs over 9000 Yen or 1000+ Yen more than any other game.



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Khuutra on 13 December 2009
dolemit3 said:
Square Enix have only themselves to blame. Apparently the game costs over 9000 Yen or 1000+ Yen more than any other game.

Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest always cost a premium, though.



darthdevidem01 on 13 December 2009

Ideally I would have hoped for a 1.5 Million Week 1.

In the end due to strong PS3 sales & big releases next year, FF13 should crawl to the 2 Million mark. Then possible BEst releases & an Xbox 360 version in Japan should bring its total to around 2.5 - 2.8 Million.

These sales aren't disappointing at all, in fact they are very good, but they fall short of my predictions by just 100K - 200K

EDIT:

Also this makes MGS4 sales seem very impressive, the franchise faced hardly any decline from PS3's userbase



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psrock on 13 December 2009
kingofwale said:
ChrisIsNotSexy said:
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Well noone knows how many of them are FF fans,maybe all of them are lol

Didn't Halo 3 do just that??? (and this is not counting all the RRoD xbox, most likely the realistic attachment rate is in the high 60%)

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"



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