Final Fantasy XIII becomes best selling PS3 game ever in Japan

[Mamoulian War]

Over one million copies of FFXIII sold on launch day... The copies with Lightning themed PS3 console SKU are not included... The previous record sale holder for PS3 was Metal Gear Solid 4...

 

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/12/1...ps_one_million/

[Purkake]

Shock and awe!

 

Japanese people like JRPGs

[Meshugger]

Didn't the previous installment sell 2 million in its first week?

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

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

[Mamoulian War]

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???

[Purkake]

That's just because there aren't any other games for the Japanese to play on their dusty PS3s

[Mamoulian War]

Didn't the previous installment sell 2 million in its first week?

 

Yes it did, but in 2006, there were more than 10 millions of PS2 owners alone in Japan... Now we have over 4 millions of owners of PS3 in Japan... 1million out of 4 millions is bigger success than 2 millions out of 10 millions...

[Mamoulian War]

That's just because there aren't any other games for the Japanese to play on their dusty PS3s

 

yeah you can say that how many times you want, it will not become truth...

 

 

here you have what you can play on PS3 atm...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_3_games

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_downl...Station_3_games

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PSOne_Classics

Edited December 18, 2009 by Mamoulian War

[Vilhelm]

Doesn't surprise me at all. Final Fantasy is, after all, the second biggest RPG brand in Japan (second only to Dragon Quest).

 

On a related note, I've spent about 3 hours playing it and I like it so far. I guess most of my weekend will be spent playing it. I generally like the fundamental changes they made to the gameplay system.

[Purkake]

That's just because there aren't any other games for the Japanese to play on their dusty PS3s

 

yeah you can say that how many times you want, it will not become truth...

 

 

here you have what you can play on PS3 atm...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_3_games

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_downl...Station_3_games

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PSOne_Classics

I was joking, as clearly evidenced by the smiley.

 

Loosen up man, it's just Final Fantasy and the PS3 is doing fine on it's own, it doesn't need you defending it 24/7.

 

Edited December 18, 2009 by Purkake

[Meshugger]

Doesn't surprise me at all. Final Fantasy is, after all, the second biggest RPG brand in Japan (second only to Dragon Quest).

 

On a related note, I've spent about 3 hours playing it and I like it so far. I guess most of my weekend will be spent playing it. I generally like the fundamental changes they made to the gameplay system.

 

YOUSONOFABI

 

ehm, i mean i am happy for you. How's the game so far? How's the soundtrack? Does the story and atmosphere suck you in like in FFX?

[Pidesco]

^I think "you in" was a typo.

[Jaesun]

I am greatly looking forward to this. And now since I have an Xbox360 and a PS3... I just need to figure out which one to buy it for.

[Mamoulian War]

I am greatly looking forward to this. And now since I have an Xbox360 and a PS3... I just need to figure out which one to buy it for.

 

i recommend you on PS3, it will be on 1 BluRay and with uncompressed sound and video... if you care about things like that... everything else is the same...

[Vilhelm]

ehm, i mean i am happy for you. How's the game so far? How's the soundtrack? Does the story and atmosphere suck you in like in FFX?

 

I was not a big fan of FFX, and I'm really enjoying the storyline in the game so far, even though it's quite confusing (both because it IS damn confusing, but also because my Japanese isn't perfect). The soundtrack is pretty good, I have to admit. I'd definately put the piano arrangement on my iPod (not a big fan of listening to original soundtracks).

 

I also like the progression system. The game no longer has levels per se. Instead it has crystal points, which you spend on upgrades and new abilities (similar to the sphere grid in FFX).

 

Now you also have roles, which you can switch in battle, although with a bit of twist. You have these things called optimas (or paradigm in the English version, I believe). You assign characters to roles (defender, healer, blaster, attacker etc.) and each role has it's own crystarium (the FF13 equivilent of sphere grid). You have to progress each character's crystariums individually, so one generally opts to choose one or two roles for each character and stick to them. When you first get into the whole optima system, you start out with two preprogrammed optimas. One is a pure attack optima, where all characters are damage dealers. The other one is more structured like a group you might find in an MMO game, where one is a tank ("defender"), one is a damage dealer ("blaster," "attacker") and one is a healer. When you're fighting weaker enemies you generally go with the pure damage dealing optima, but if you fight against, say, a boss or tougher enemies, you first use the damage dealing optima until your characters are running low on hit points, turn to the defence optima where the defender absorbs all the damage and the healer tops everyone up, and when all your characters are fully healed you go back to the damage dealing optima.

 

It's completely different from other Final Fantasy games (even compared to FFXII, IMO) but it's definitely worth its money. I'm totally playing it through twice, once in Japanese and once in English.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I have to admit the soundtrack does sound amazing. Other than that, the combat looks too... difficult for me to actually try playing it.

[Meshugger]

ehm, i mean i am happy for you. How's the game so far? How's the soundtrack? Does the story and atmosphere suck you in like in FFX?

 

I was not a big fan of FFX, and I'm really enjoying the storyline in the game so far, even though it's quite confusing (both because it IS damn confusing, but also because my Japanese isn't perfect). The soundtrack is pretty good, I have to admit. I'd definately put the piano arrangement on my iPod (not a big fan of listening to original soundtracks).

 

I also like the progression system. The game no longer has levels per se. Instead it has crystal points, which you spend on upgrades and new abilities (similar to the sphere grid in FFX).

 

Now you also have roles, which you can switch in battle, although with a bit of twist. You have these things called optimas (or paradigm in the English version, I believe). You assign characters to roles (defender, healer, blaster, attacker etc.) and each role has it's own crystarium (the FF13 equivilent of sphere grid). You have to progress each character's crystariums individually, so one generally opts to choose one or two roles for each character and stick to them. When you first get into the whole optima system, you start out with two preprogrammed optimas. One is a pure attack optima, where all characters are damage dealers. The other one is more structured like a group you might find in an MMO game, where one is a tank ("defender"), one is a damage dealer ("blaster," "attacker") and one is a healer. When you're fighting weaker enemies you generally go with the pure damage dealing optima, but if you fight against, say, a boss or tougher enemies, you first use the damage dealing optima until your characters are running low on hit points, turn to the defence optima where the defender absorbs all the damage and the healer tops everyone up, and when all your characters are fully healed you go back to the damage dealing optima.

 

It's completely different from other Final Fantasy games (even compared to FFXII, IMO) but it's definitely worth its money. I'm totally playing it through twice, once in Japanese and once in English.

 

Thank you, i have to hand it to Square for changing the gameplay dynamics for iteration of Final Fantasy.

[Meshugger]

I have to admit the soundtrack does sound amazing. Other than that, the combat looks too... difficult for me to actually try playing it.

 

I had to check up on youtube to verify that, i wasn't even aware that some songs have been leaked/released.

 

The "Main(Menu) Theme" was an instant bliss. That piece alone was more Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy XII as a whole.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I have to admit the soundtrack does sound amazing. Other than that, the combat looks too... difficult for me to actually try playing it.

 

I had to check up on youtube to verify that, i wasn't even aware that some songs have been leaked/released.

 

The "Main(Menu) Theme" was an instant bliss. That piece alone was more Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy XII as a whole.

Just checked it out. Reminds me of something out of Super Smash Bros. So awesome.

[Humodour]

That's just because there aren't any other games for the Japanese to play on their dusty PS3s

 

PS3 is actually doing extremely well atm (I acknowledge it was stagnant at some points in the past), and that was before this Final Fantasy release.

[Oner]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/...s-of-Stagnation

[Meshugger]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/...s-of-Stagnation

 

That would make a good start for another topic.

[Mamoulian War]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/...s-of-Stagnation

 

 

very interesting quote at the end article...

 

That JRPGs are overly linear and have certain tropes is hardly a new opinion, what's really interesting is who's saying it. While BioWare games could never be described as linear, they certainly have some touchstones they go to time and time again. This in turn begs the question of whether it is actually fresh ideas that the western audience wants, or whether it just wants choices to make.

 

 

EDIT: My favourite reader's comment :D

 

While i adore Bioware and could say that i am a fanboy of them, it seems wrong of them to say this.

 

Mass Effect - Dark beings never seen before come about to destroy all organic life in the galaxy and only 1 man can stop them. (Spectre's as a special class)

 

Dragon Age - Dark beings from underneath the earth come to destroy the world. Only one type of hero can stop them, Grey Wardens.

 

Don't get me wrong, i love both games and Bioware so MUCH and can't wait for Mass Effect 2 but they seem a little like hypocrites.

Edited December 20, 2009 by Mamoulian War

[Oner]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/...s-of-Stagnation

That would make a good start for another topic.

I think we've gone through that a few times, that's why I didn't give it an own thread.

 

very interesting quote at the end article...

Which is the reason why I posted this one instead of the Destructiod version.

[Mamoulian War]

Zeshuck's statement is as ridiculous as if Yoichi Wada would tell that WRPGs are stagnating based only on japanese sales...

 

quote form some japanese guy...

 

From what I know only Jade Empire and Mass Effect have been released on Japan which have sold crap (Jade Empire sold less than 10000 apparently and Mass Effect has sold about 30000). As for Bethesda games, both Fallout 3 and Oblivion have each sold about 150k copies there.