Final Fantasy XIII becomes best selling PS3 game ever in Japan

[Yuusha]

Why *ofcourse* they have to release the damn thing while i happen to attend a conferance in Germany. I only have 1-2 international conferances per year, but they have to release it on the very day that i have no access to my PS3.

 

Typical.

 

LOL! What sort of conference?

 

Don't worry, it's worth the wait.

[Setzer]

As a PS3 owner, lemme just say that the 360 sucks! lol

 

As for FFXIII, can anyone tell me when will the NA version be available?

 

The 360 does suck. I own one and I just sent mine back to Microsoft for repair. This is my 3rd RROD.

 

I got my PS3 at launch and it hasn't failed me yet.

 

The NA version of FFXIII will be released in early March.

[Purkake]

2009 - The Last Days of the Japanese RPG? - Gamasutra

[Niten_Ryu]

2009 - The Last Days of the Japanese RPG? - Gamasutra

 

JRPGs would be one genre that I wouldn't miss at all. But Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests will be made forever so I guess JRPGs are here to stay. Developers and writers in the west get at lot of heat because they use same tired cliches and combat mechanics but in reality they have evolved way more then JRPGs. I read article about 5 years ago how japanise gamers not only wanted the same combat mechanics in every game, they also wanted the same story. Us old skool CRPG players in here might wish some type of turn based combat would still be in modern games but even then we'd want to see new stories. I guess finally japanise got tired or ain't big enough market for niche type of products that cost millions to make. Handheld devices are probably best option (same goes for all turn based CRPGs).

[Mamoulian War]

2009 - The Last Days of the Japanese RPG? - Gamasutra

 

JRPGs would be one genre that I wouldn't miss at all. But Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests will be made forever so I guess JRPGs are here to stay. Developers and writers in the west get at lot of heat because they use same tired cliches and combat mechanics but in reality they have evolved way more then JRPGs. I read article about 5 years ago how japanise gamers not only wanted the same combat mechanics in every game, they also wanted the same story. Us old skool CRPG players in here might wish some type of turn based combat would still be in modern games but even then we'd want to see new stories. I guess finally japanise got tired or ain't big enough market for niche type of products that cost millions to make. Handheld devices are probably best option (same goes for all turn based CRPGs).

 

and still JRPGs sell in total more units than western RPGs on global market...

[GreasyDogMeat]

JRPGs would be one genre that I wouldn't miss at all. But Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests will be made forever so I guess JRPGs are here to stay. Developers and writers in the west get at lot of heat because they use same tired cliches and combat mechanics but in reality they have evolved way more then JRPGs. I read article about 5 years ago how japanise gamers not only wanted the same combat mechanics in every game, they also wanted the same story. Us old skool CRPG players in here might wish some type of turn based combat would still be in modern games but even then we'd want to see new stories. I guess finally japanise got tired or ain't big enough market for niche type of products that cost millions to make. Handheld devices are probably best option (same goes for all turn based CRPGs).

Well put. A lot love for Bioware has turned into apathy or hate because they have a habit of telling the same story over and over again.

[Morgoth]

As a PS3 owner, lemme just say that the 360 sucks! lol

 

As for FFXIII, can anyone tell me when will the NA version be available?

 

The 360 does suck. I own one and I just sent mine back to Microsoft for repair. This is my 3rd RROD.

It's an American product. No wonder it always breaks.

 

Americans just can't build stuff.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I just got my PS3, and it's just so much more silent than my 360, even with the fan at maximum.

[Yuusha]

[Mamoulian War]

that's all i had to read after i seen the spot...

 

LOL dumbass "uncharted 2" was nominated the game of the year by ign becuase it has long and awsome cut-scenes

LMFAO

Edited January 1, 2010 by Mamoulian War

[Pidesco]

 

 

Weak. There are much better reasons to hate Final Fantasy.

[Tigranes]

JRPGs would be one genre that I wouldn't miss at all. But Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests will be made forever so I guess JRPGs are here to stay. Developers and writers in the west get at lot of heat because they use same tired cliches and combat mechanics but in reality they have evolved way more then JRPGs. I read article about 5 years ago how japanise gamers not only wanted the same combat mechanics in every game, they also wanted the same story. Us old skool CRPG players in here might wish some type of turn based combat would still be in modern games but even then we'd want to see new stories. I guess finally japanise got tired or ain't big enough market for niche type of products that cost millions to make. Handheld devices are probably best option (same goes for all turn based CRPGs).

Well put. A lot love for Bioware has turned into apathy or hate because they have a habit of telling the same story over and over again.

 

I don't know. Americans don't mind it in movies, books and music, do they.

[Oner]

I don't know. Americans don't mind it in movies, books and music, do they.

http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showt...t=0&start=0

[Nepenthe]

As a PS3 owner, lemme just say that the 360 sucks! lol

 

As for FFXIII, can anyone tell me when will the NA version be available?

 

As an owner of both consoles, let me tell you that each has its own merits.

 

Mmh, true. I have both consoles as well, but for some reason I have a deep aversion towards the x360 (which I bought later, and really only to play Mass Effect), which I can't fully explain. I have one of the anti-RROD Jaspers, which apparently in addition to lower power consumption were also optimised for maximum fan power. That thing is a screamer, even with the games on the drive. The PS3 is hardly silent, but both the fan and drive noise are subjectively unnoticeable to me.

 

Also the way the menus and everything else on the PS3 side work it somehow manages to seem more like a quality home theatre product than a gaudy games console on the appearance level. The x360 is the opposite, and I still get lost in the menus and the forced adverts getting rammed down my throat whenever I do something on that side.

 

This puts me in the unfortunate position were I have to pick multiplatform games for the console on which they generally work worse (the ps3), just because relatively minor subjective things make me like using it more

[Meshugger]

Why *ofcourse* they have to release the damn thing while i happen to attend a conferance in Germany. I only have 1-2 international conferances per year, but they have to release it on the very day that i have no access to my PS3.

 

Typical.

 

LOL! What sort of conference?

 

Don't worry, it's worth the wait.

 

I hope that it will be worth the wait. I loved FFX, while i have an irrational hatred towards FFXII. It's been 8 years since i have played a good Final Fantasy-game, goddammit!

 

As for the conference, I work for an international engineering firm and my job is to handle administrative tasks surrounding our engineering tools; such as collaborative project management, development and licensing (some coding as well, if some of our customers want their projects to become custom-designed for them). Each year, we are invited to attend the conferences that the distributors hold for their clients. It just happened to be in Munich this year for this engineering tool.

 

One of us will have to go to Knoxville in the US in middle of summer for a similar one. Good luck with humidity, i say.

 

Back to topic: The link to Gamasutra can be compared to modern day Hollywood as well. For example, all these superhero-movies, Keanu Reeves starring in the upcoming live-action version of the Cowboy Bebop-anime, and finally Steven Spielberg doing a live-action adaption of one of the most important movies of any medium: Ghost in the Shell (which will suck donkeyballs ofcourse).

Edited January 3, 2010 by Meshugger

[alanschu]

I love how that's not even close to the huge north american releases.

 

how many people own Xbox 360 in USA, and how many own PS3 in Japan... If you have 20 millions users it is logical, that you get more sales, isn't it?

 

in Japan every 4th owner of PS3 purchased FFXIII, can you show me at least one game in the USA, that have so big share???

 

 

As a counterpoint, a console with a larger user base also probably has a user base with a greater disparity of game interests.

Besides, is it any surprise that a Final Fantasy game is selling like hot cakes for a PlayStation system? In Japan no less.

Good for the game and good for Square/Enix, but this is what I'd expect from the sales. Especially given that, since Final Fantasy VII, there's no shortage of people that buy Playstations for Square games.

 

 

As a reference point, the game seems to be roughly as fast of a mover as Final Fantasy 7 was, maybe a little faster. November 1996 had 4.2 million PSX's in Japan, and March 1997 had 6.5 million (source). So somewhere between those two numbers is the installed base when FF7 was released on January 31, 1997. I don't know how much it sold on the first day, but according to IGN/Wikipedia, it sold 2.3 million copies within the first 3 days.

 

As for its share, it may have taken more than 1 day, but a game like Modern Warfare 2 has fantastic coverage throughout the installed base of XBOX 360s. I wouldn't be surprised if, after the dust settles, a larger percentage of 360 owners own MW2 than PS3 owners own FF13. Not surprisingly: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/02/final-fa...lunge-in-japan/

 

A lot of the people that want the game bought it on day one. This seems to be par for the course in Japan. Final Fantasy X also had huge sales right at release, and was the first to hit 2 million and 4 million on the PS2. FFXIII is a huge success, no doubt about it. But is it really doing anything it wasn't expected to do?

[Oner]

An alanschu! : O

[alanschu]

Yeah, I've been limiting myself from the board, though lurking from time to time. Things are just reallllly slow at work right now that I got bored and the train wreck pulled me back in.