Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
i don't think the series is in any trouble as of right now. First of all, the games are as popular as ever in Japan, and any bad turn in interest in the United States will not likely have an impediment on the health of the series.

Second, XII sold nearly as well as X and is one of the best selling games ever on the ps2. i don't think interest will be a problem. If you look at any site hosting the trailers to XIII and vXIII, and read the comments, the overwhelming consensus is that people are very eager for these games. One problem that may arise is the lower performance of the ps3 sales in the US compared to other platforms, but along with the other great games going to be released this year for it, i don't think it'll be a problem by then.

Sorry, the only thing that has been consistant with the FF releases after FFVII is the fact that a mass amount of the sales have happened in a months period or a short amount of time.
There's a reason that the FFXIII group is aiming at the nostolgia of the older games. Clearly the sales of FF games to date shows a scale of ups and downs, technically the FFXIII release should be an up because that's the pattern the sales are taking, but they won't risk that, so there's 3 FFXIII's and their aimed at old AND new players.

Here are the sales to date.

FFXII - 3.9 million

FFX - 6.6 million

FFIX - 4.6 mil

FFVIII - 6 million

FFVII - 9.5 million

FFVI - 2.55 million in japan, 550k in US for SNES,then 364k for anthology, not including GBA

FFV - 2.45 milion units on Super Famicom + 364k on the Anthology release. Not including GBA

FFIV - Almost 3 million copies including original and PSX release. Not including GBA

FFIII - 442500 units

FFII - Couldn't find stats

FFI - Couldn't find stats.