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Forums - Sales Discussion - XIII to release under 500k in US?

Fab_GS on 20 January 2010
jneul said:
darth how much did the previous FF sell in US in the first week, I am betting for figures around that amount, hopefully more...


Final Fantasy XII: 572k
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=765

It's the only main FF with US and others first weeks.



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ShadowSoldier on 20 January 2010

PS3 alone will do 500k.



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rynx on 20 January 2010
invetedlotus123 said:

Looks at pre-orders, in US it's 150k  on both consoles. Pre-orders may sky-rocket near release, but, anything under 500k would be fail to me. Anything under Mass Effect 2 will be fail as well.

would be a fail to me as well, but it isnt hard to figure out why... last time i checked it's pre-order number was at 30,000 for the ps3 and at this time (when i checked a few days ago) should of been at the 100-thousands. squarenix made bad decisions and should of kept their mouths shut about what they did to ff13 to keep both versions balance (equal) whiched pissed off a lot of ps3 owners



Maneco on 20 January 2010

I don't know... I would bet more than 500,000 in first week, counting both consoles, but the JRPG genre, as it seems to me, is saturated in the Americas, but I really don't know... Normally, they sell better on handhelds. We have to wait to see what happens.



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Kenryoku_Maxis on 20 January 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
 

If you're trying to defend Final Fantasy by saying its a 'mainstream' franchise and therefore that makes it 'ok' for its sales to drop later in a consoles life, just because other series had a similar experience, that's still not a good reason.  And for the examples I gave, you think they did better because they weren't part of a series or were 'niche' titles?  No, they had to work 100x harder to get popular in America/Others, which is why I brought them up.  Indeed, there is some kind of sequel effect going on, but that doesn't mean its just acceptable and we should just shrug it off as the status quo.  I'm sure the boys at SquareEnix weren't just treating the sales of FFXII as 'acceptable losses'.

As for the sales of FFXIII, you are a lot more optomistic as I am.  I highly doubt it'll even reach that of FFX, let alone get to the level of 8-10 million like you're saying.

No I am not trying to defend it, I have given you the reason for that happening. Can you come up with any other reasons. why did this decline happen for the last 2 generations?

S-E probably weren't happy with it, but what can they do to reverse it?

 

I gave my reasons and you disputed it.  There's not much more to 'come up with'.  To do so would be changing my position or trying to come up with some random claim to counter yours, which I'm not trying to do.  I stick to my views unless data proves otherwise.  And as yet, I haven't seen anything that has.  And I doubt the sales for FFXIII will change that either, unless it somehow does sell beyond FFX and/or FFVII.



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Millennium on 21 January 2010

One other thing to keep in mind is that FF sales are always extremely front-loaded: over half of an FF game's sales in any given region tend to occur in the first week. FF13 is shaping up to follow that same pattern, if Japan is any indication. This is bad in some ways -the games have no legs at all- but it does tend to make for great first-week figures.



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