the next monster hunte will be released on the psp :p

damn people are getting defensive.

what is wrong with me saying I had higher expectations of consoles being sold? hell I even own a PS3 myself.

The way this game was hyped it was suppose to be the rebirth of the PS3. This was the game that was ment to make the PS3 king.

Or are you all forgetting the nonsense crap most of you said about it?

To me you cannot factor out the holidays and repurcahse of a special edition ps3 as some factor in the sales. How much it was, who really knows? and I don't really care.

It would of been interesting to see how well this boosted sales the slowest week in Japan to get a true indicator.

Two things: a few people like to say 'most people' when they mean a few; secondly demotruk has made a valid point about system sellers, but because some people can only see there own view of concepts they argue with a straw man or get angry about it. He has defined what he means by system seller and is probably correct when he says it won't be a seller in the way games like the Wii series and Brain Training are... they are leggy sellers to the new market and probably some of the old market too.

It would be nice to have an occasional debate without the old 'hater' phrase being bandied about when people say something relevant. I mean, it's 'only' sales of a console.

Everyone just listen to baz and be quiet ^^ Seriously :)

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or discuss in a civilized manner, of course :P

To clarify, I was just agreeing that it really is a different kind of system seller, and it depends on how you define it, just as several people have said.  Including ioi.  There's the type of system seller that the Wii has almost a total monopoly on, which involves a breakout hit, or a game that expands the market steadily and just keeps selling...  and then there are the big names which appeal to long time gamers, which probably sell most of the systems they sell in advance of the actual game release, though in many cases they also cause big (and in some cases massive) spikes in system sales when the game releases, and add a kind of "gamer cred" to the system which is pretty hard to measure.

Media Create :

FF13 FW = 1,501,964
PS3 HW = 237,086 / 4,276,480

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=18991682&postcount=1514

Thank you MC for not ruining my prediction ;)

Just wow....Awesome. My prediction of a sell-through was wrong though. Looks like PS3 may reach another Million Mark pretty soon

There were 2 RPGs released just this year that had higher openings. I can think of 3 total this gen off the top of my head. All are on the DS mind you. If this was in the context of home console only then you have a point. In the grander scheme of all jRPGs though it was not close to the biggest in a long time. It is a very big opening though. I would be speechless if this game didn't stick in the top 10 for opening weeks in Japan.

Edit: Oops I am slighly wrong. One of the jRPGs I was thinking of did slightly less (1.44 million) in the opening week. That puts FFXIII as probably a lock for top 5 jRPG openings this gen in Japan only.

Well, what should i say? this is pretty impressive =)

I suppose someone will now say that MC numbers don't count and Famitsu numbers do?

Seriously, great numbers. Some people expected more, far more (I can easily provide quotes including very recent ones if someone asks for those) but many didn't expect anything close. So everybody should relax, these are great numbers.