After just praising the game for maintaining its core fanbase, I think I'll have to knock you down one notch for insisting on historical comparisons.

By present context, FFXIII has done exceedingly well. It's by far the most popular game on the PS3 ever in Japan.

By historical context? It's clearly going to continue the general downward trend the series has experienced for over a decade.

VIII sold more than IX sold more than X sold more than XII which will sell more than XIII. Just a few minor hiccups in that downward trend: X-2 (which is a main series entry, but I can imagine the X-2 monikor cost it a few sales) and FFXI, which is a totally different beast that simply can't be compared.

Which is my way of saying: For a PS3 game, FFXIII has done exceptionally well. For a Final Fantasy game, FFXIII is continuing the slow, downward trend the series has been on for 12+ years.

The statement you said is entirely due to the nature of how frontloaded the franchise is. That's essentially it.

I mean, if it didn't pass the expectation in 2 days, it'd barely make it at all, since that's like 85% of its sales. On the other hand, if a leggy game like Nintendo's passed LT expectations in 2 days, it'd be completely annihilated, the prediction wouldn't be anywhere remotely close.

Not to take anything away from the game, it has done well, though I see the above said a lot - like Modern Warfare 2 outdoing everything in such a short time. The length of time really isn't important, unless it's going to continue selling.

Actually, that's a bad example. Thing about FF is, it's always insanely frontloaded, so it isn't anything unexpected.

edit: GO TALES!! Hope it can get to 230k, at least.

According to MC 21 out of the top 30 are Nintendo titles..quite impressive. NSMB to be #1 again next week?

probably unless RE:DC has a huge week, but i doubt it will be that big.

edit: forgot about kingdom hearts, that'll be up there around the same sales as well probably.

Yeah I'm not really looking at DC to do much. And I guess it depends on how hard a drop BBS receives. But if you were a betting man, what game would you bet on for being #1? ;)

It actually sound like Capcom is putting out a pretty good advertising campaign for RE:DC, and the wii is kinda riding a wave of popularity right now so there are some reasons to be positive about RE:DC but I'm just not too confident about it right now.
I'm gonna guess kingdom hearts will be on top by 10-20k. Could really go either way though.

impressive for Kingdom Hearts! and I hope Zelda will have better legs than this...at least reach PH.

famitsu has been slow lately

Kingdom Hearts snapped wow. It looks like BBS will end up doing better than 358/2 Days

DUH! KH : BBS sould shut up those PSP doom-sayers xD