Final Fantasy XIII Sales Plummet

The ranking hardly means anything when you take into account the install base of PS3 and DS. There are simply alot more DS than PS3 in Japan. Only meaningful if you compare with other PS3 titles.

All the people that I know of who imported the game, had pretty much only positive things to say about it.

This site somehow makes FF13 seems like a disaster and is going to bankrupt S.E or something.

'Crucial christmas sales period'

Christmas isn't important in Japan and its not a holiday.

Damn it arte, for someone who's an otaku you'd think you know a few things about Japan.

If christmas day is on a thursday then new games get released on that day over there too, that's how unimportant christmas is to them.

Of course the sales have dropped people who couldn't wait to play bought their copy on release day.

You really can't expect a game or anything to fly off the selves forever. And there are a lot of complaints about the game that have some people thinking twice about buying the game.

Come March I'll be buying my copy. I could care less how much someone else disliked the game. I've waited for this game for too damn long to let some else's opinion stop me from playing the damn game. But I play videogames to enjoy myself and not nitpick at every little thing and then some.

Man, you guys are really going at it with your opinions. I'm not a fanboy or anything, but it is interesting to see what everyone says up here. (except the trolls). It does suck to see the New Final Fantasy losing it in their sales. The game seems quite amazing and yet, there was something about the game that made it just unappealing or something. Oh well, they'll do better next time. At least tje other games I'm also interested in is doing incredible. 2010 should be a turn around for any other game that wasn't doing so well for a while now but are still hanging on, like Sonic the Hedgehog. (I'm wondering how many people will diss the blue hedgehog for two games that didn't do so well back then.) I just hope some VG companies will get it together and not make such mediocre games.

Why I hope sales even worldwide plummet if the game is a piece of shit. So they can learn what happens when you make a pretty looking shit game it doesn't mean that people will buy shit because it just looks nice.

somehow i knew Arte was going to sensationalize this.

few points
1) before you all call Arte a "trolling cunt" or whatever it was I read, he's right, it IS a steep drop.

that cannot be disputed. a 90%+ drop is not typical even in Japan (at least for a successful title). anyone that claims otherwise is full of crap trying to sound like they know something but they're still full of it.

2) that having been said, Arte DOES sensationalize everything FFXIII he's been getting recently for post count.

take this for example, it still puts FFXIII at 1.7 mil. most analysts weren't expecting more than 2 mil anyway.
it IS truly the case where the vast majority of the people who were going to buy FFXIII bought it already.

why?

first of all FF generally only falls in the 2-3 mil range to begin with.
people that thought it was going to hit the 3-4+ range are showing they knew squat to begin with.
now that still means FFXIII is hitting the low end though.

however but then the second part is there are only a little more than 4 mil PS3s in japan to begin with.

even if FFXIII hits the 2 mil mark analysts were expecting, that means FFXIII is hitting a 50% attach rate. which is already an insanely high attach rate for a singular title.

Halo doesn't have that rate
Gears of War doesn't
God of War never did
Dragon Quest doesn't
no past FF did either
Mario doesn't even have that high of a rate, and thats Mario

bottom line, FFXIII is hitting the upper bound of what it was going to sell given the current amount of japanese PS3 ownership anyway, barring i huge unprecedented spike in console sales (of which the PS3 already got a pretty huge one) or a huge unprecedentedly high attach rate going far and beyond even 50%.

Compared to the first week, there's a drop off of 87.4%, which is consistent with previous games.

Past second week numbers were as follows (Famitsu):

Final Fantasy XII: 217,438 (88.1% drop off)
Final Fantasy X-2: 181,798 (87.6%)
Final Fantasy X: 233,429 (86.7%)

Final Fantasy IX: 328,404 (83.2%)
Final Fantasy VIII: 270,993 (89.2%)
Final Fantasy VII: 329,740 (83.8%)

What's this? Why, it seems to be another article bashing FFXIII! Oho! What a completely unexpected surprise!

Besides Tomodachi Collection, everything on that list a rehash! You can always count on Nintendo to keep serving the same shit, with millions of people to enjoy eating it up. It doesn't even look like they're going to change Link's art style anytime soon.

I'm going to at least rent FFXIII when it comes out here in the US. You guys can keep hating on it, but before I form an official opinion, I'm going to play the damn thing first.

I'm quite relieved to hear that the sales of this game plummeted for two reason: from what I've seen, read, and watched, FFXIII is the least creative in the series, and that even the non-canon Crystal Bearers makes a better FFXIII.

wow, so many people commenting, best rpg ever? In my mind, planescape torrent. Of all the rpg´s ive played this one probably hits the spot most accurately, players have enormous possibilities and the world truly reacts to your decisions in sensible ways. Yeah sure its not about THE most powerful guy in the world or THE weakest guy in the world who THEN becomes THE most powerful (and so on) But its about a poor soul whose life was turned upside down and now hes dead (literally dead) set on trying to do something about it.

When someone sais the word "rpg game" most people think of something similar to a very linear type of game like final fantasy, i dont care how many options you have in the game, or how many abilities you can have, that doesnt change the fact that EVERY time you play a final fantasy game theres only really one true path that the game is about, sure you may uncover different endings and different secrets, but its all just about grinding through various monsters with a bossfight and cg movie once in a while, and usually you wind up saving the world, if you strip the caracters of backstory and focus solely on the game then thats what final fantasy is about innit?

In its truest sense roleplay is about taking control of a person in a certain world, thus ALL computer games are roleplay in a sense. In real roleplay, you can do anything, even if that "anything" you did doesnt matter in the end at all, and usually roleplaying is about more then killing monsters, theres XP for talking, its called diplomacy. All roleplaying computer games are about a single story that has a set path for the player to follow, thus, all games are linear to an extent. if they werent, people would get bored and/or lost.

Like possibly a few others who hang around this site i am a roleplaying geek, and i mean pen-paper roleplay, if someone said to me "this computer game is too linear", then since all computer games are linear, that would mean "i dont like what this game is about, i want to do something different" which translates to "this game is not to my taste, i dont like it"

If you really dont like a game, dont hate it, and dont go telling everybody who just might listen to you for the heck of it that you hate it and its lame, caus those other people just might like it. If you think final fantasy 13 is "too linear" then for the love of god throw your entire final fantasy franchise out the window if you hate it so much and go find some geeks who will play real face to face roleplay with you, only THEN will you know the meaning of a non-linear roleplaying game.

Statistics are good but it always better to actually play it or a demo or something to see what it truly is. When I first saw all the negative comments on this game I kinda was very bummed out. But my friend reminded me that was just BS. SE Isn't a bad company really. FFX is one of my favorite FF since FF6.(FF7 was good but ah yeah tired of it).

@Final Fantasy XIII
Game = Shit. Hands down.
Toys = God-like (ie: Odin, Shiva Play Arts Kai etc etc)

lol

TexasDude:

And just think. In the USA this FF XIII (Lucky 13) game is a top 10 anticipated game for 2010. :)

Don't think it'll go well.

Big surprise, another post on sankaku focusing on the negatives of FFXIII. I honestly can't explain why I keep reading the posts here about it, it only makes me more dubious of everything on this site as a whole, because I have not heard even close to this level of negative feedback on any other site I visit.

This somehow reminds me of another RPG of sorts gimme a second I'll think about it. it was poorly put together, Underbudgeted, and Over priced and the developers and rights holders decided it would be best to just patch the game to where it should be as time progressed. I believe it was Called UCGO and was the Developed by Dimps and Owned by Bandai.

Because this is all mutha gay box fault...they degrade the graphic and so on...so you cant really blame ps3 since its gaybox fault.and this is a fact gaybox fanboy when you are reading this go and fuk ur gaybox.

Get stuffed Squenix.

Doesn't mean it won't do well internationally. And, of course, the drop in sales is most likely due to the infamous "OMG da game iz linearr!!!1!!1" After hearing that so many times, as well as their taste in RPG's, I'm not surprised.

pokemon heart?

where's the gold?

Reading Sankaku these days, I get the feeling Artefact is not a big fan of the game :D

fuck it, I'll be a hater magnet,
I'm still looking forward to it regardless..

I'm still going to give it a try as I've been looking forward to it and I feel the complaints are minor to me. I mostly play RPGs for the story so if I like this one then I most likely won't have a problem with the gameplay. All this bad news has been a buzzkill for this game as I was hoping to play through another great game after ME2.

Well yeah, many people have already bought it. The same thing often happens with album sales.