Quote Originally Posted by SeeDRankLou
Selling almost two million copies in one day does not a failure make. If the game was a failure then it would have gotten horrible hype from the Japanese community and not sold 1.5 million in the US, and however much it has sold in Europe. Have all the opinions you want, but the numbers don't lie.
Mabe it wasn't a complete failure, but compared to any other ff it has very little hope in stacking up. And numbers can lie to a certain extent. I'm sure quite a few people bought it because they assumed it would be good cause of the final fantasy on it.