Final Fantasy XIII-2 Sales

[nirojan]

I'll update First Post with any new info regarding sales of FFXIII-2!

SALES UPDATE:FEB 2012

JPN Media Create Top 20:
[PS3] Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, 12.15.2011): 97,359 (794,505)*
*Weekly sales Italicized and Total sales Bolded.

SALES(in millions):
PS3 North America: 0.46, Europe: 0.26, Japan: 0.79, GLOBAL: 1.64
Xbox 360 North America: 0.17, Europe: 0.15, Japan: 0.1, GLOBAL: 0.36

TOTAL WORLD WIDE SALES: ~2.00 million units

[Wolf Kanno]

Well considering you can count how many 360 owner there are in Japan on one hand...

[VeloZer0]

FYI FF13 was 1.5 million on it's first week. I feel like saying something snarky or supportive, but now that I think about it this I pretty much what I expected.

[Levian]

and that's why companies make sequels.

[VeloZer0]

Well logically FF13-3 will only sell 170,000 copies on it's first week, so they are going to have to start innovating soon.

[nirojan]

A small update:
Media Create Spots 20 to 30: No Xbox 360 FFXIII-2, More Vita Games -- Andriasang.com

apparently the 360 version failed to clock into the top 30.

[Wolf Kanno]

As I said, earlier, I wouldn't put much weight into Japan's 360 numbers. The system has done abysmal over there, so it's numbers won't be that great. The 360 vs. PS3 debate will have to wait until the western release, where the 360 has more ground to show off real numbers.

[Raistlin]

FYI FF13 was 1.5 million on it's first week. I feel like saying something snarky or supportive, but now that I think about it this I pretty much what I expected.

Does that mean the numbers for FFXIII-2 are bad? If it doesn't do so hot in Japan, that doesn't leave much promise for the US.

[ShinGundam]

FYI FF13 was 1.5 million on it's first week. I feel like saying something snarky or supportive, but now that I think about it this I pretty much what I expected.

Does that mean the numbers for FFXIII-2 are bad? If it doesn't do so hot in Japan, that doesn't leave much promise for the US.

Pretty much, It is very alarming even though it is still good numbers but couple that with DQX being an MMO on Wii this is just shape to be a colossal fail on its own. IMO, that is just more and more weight on Tetsuya Nomura to deliver a mega hit with Versus XIII. I think the whole FF situation is interesting and it shows that people in Japan want powerhouse and original title rather than a sequel.

[Elpizo]

With all the expectations about Versus XIII it's almost guaranteed to be the flop of the century, no matter how fantastic (or not) the game will be, there's no way it'll please all those (often ridiculously) high expectations.

[ShinGundam]

With all the expectations about Versus XIII it's almost guaranteed to be the flop of the century, no matter how fantastic (or not) the game will be, there's no way it'll please all those (often ridiculously) high expectations.

That is completely true, they need luck! A lot of it.

[Wolf Kanno]

Looks like its not going over so well... its sales have dropped more significantly in its second week to about 180,000 units. Guess the U.S./PAL sales will have to pick up the slack.

[Bolivar]

^ Drop-offs like that are normal in the game industry.

Overall this thing is probably on track to do 1-2 million in Japan alone. That's a lot. Yakuza 3 sold like 500k in Japan and was considered a massive success and one of the most popular games at its time.

I don't know if the 360 numbers should surprise anyone. We know it won't come close to PS3 in Japan and we already have considerable evidence of how games like this sell more on PS3 in the States as well. The console wars have died down to a nice level these last few years, if anyone wants to reignite it, comparing sales numbers is probably the least meaningful and most wasteful way to go about it.

Anyway, I'm sure Square is going to recover on this game. I know we all want a higher caliber of product from them right now, but hoping for failure isn't necessarily going to do that.

[Shlup]

I have no idea if this is good or bad. How did X-2 do compared to X?

[Mirage]

Doesn't really matter. They spent a lot less money developing FF13-2, so they won't need nearly as high numbers to make good money on it.