Bet you never could have predicted that, right? Square Enix's latest blockbuster RPG, Final Fantasy XIII, has sold out in Japan after a massive launch day. Shifting over one million copies, the game is said to have been totally consumed almost instantaneously.
This figure does not include the "Lightning Edition" PS3 bundle, meaning that the actual amount of FF XIII players in Japan is bigger than the figure provided by Square Enix. The basic story is this: Loads and loads and loads of Japanese folk are playing Final Fantasy XIII. Most of you are not. Hate them.
Final Fantasy XIII will hit North America on March 9, 2010.
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8:40 AM on 12.18.2009
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Pity. You mean Pity them, right?
In fact, I bet it's quite a balancing act, the whole price vs sales thing.
I mean it must have been a tough decision for Activision to bump up the MW2 price, you've got to be 100% certain that people will buy it anyway. Suppose the lack of competition at launch time helped those guys make that decision.
But in japan at least they could have quite easily upped the price a little while still blowing the charts out of the water.
Did they? I have no idea on Japanese game pricing.
This is about the japanese version, which is ps3 exclusive right?
So why does the toilet edition say "xbox360: title"
bias much?
http://www.amazon.co.jp/スクウェア・エニックス-15783001-ファイナルファンタジーXIII/dp/B000FNQXEO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1261149986&sr=8-1
That's not to say it's 50/50 but there are a LOT of people disappointed with the game. Google translate reveals that people feel the story convoluted, the characters uninteresting and the dialog trite. The battle system is being reported as being monotonous and lacking strategy.
Yeah, I'm not so sure about this one...
Note: this is my way of hating on japan, why could we not have a simultaneous release?
Then you had to off and ruin it by posting that stupid response. And here I thought you'd finally all growed up.
I'm excited to see more japanese reviews; the hype train (and my love of Final Fantasy) has made me want to get this day one, but something about it reeked of FFX (which I despised). I'll be curious to see if it works better then the final fantasies on the PS2, or if it is just more of the same.
You know this is a multiplat game, and it is tagged for ps3 as well as 360, right? There is no bias here. Stop trying to seem desperate.
Still the game is sold out in most store I guess.
Over 1 million isn't 1 million in my logic.
But I guess I can wait for the English version.
Only 3 months left...
Like Carbon says, when you look on a mobile device the tags are fucked up, the fact that it's always fucked up towards the 360, especially on a PS3 article made me drop a bias joke. So shoot me. It's hardly ruining my life.
Still though, when you look on a mobile the front page is..
Xbox 360:
Xbox 360:
Xbox 360:
Xbox 360:
PC:
Xbox 360:
It sucks trying to find the PS3 stories. Just another subtle drop of bias.
; )
is it THAT hard to fix that?
all we need is a little consistency peeps not a complete overhaul
XO
I'm viewing on a regular computer and I can see the 360 tag up there. Not that I care, though.
In fact, I think it's a good idea to keep the 360 tag on this one because Final Fantasy selling by the truckload in Japan could be meaningful to a 360 user as well.
I mean, (@SexualChocolate) do you think that a Japanese review score for FF13 should only get a PS3 tag? Any reviews the game receives in Japan would DEFINITELY still be relevant to 360 users considering whether or not to get the game. You're really just trying to obscure information from the view of 360 owners. You're like the FoxNews of the console wars.
In line with the tagging comments, though. PLEASE keep up with the tags because I very often find that you guys are talking about a game with NO tag (and no mention of a system in the article) and I have no idea what system(s) it's coming out for.
Convoluted plot has never been an issue for me, FF has yet to throw a story at me that I couldn't follow, and apparently that is one of the huge complaints that I can't ever get clarity on because no one will tell me!
Dialogue and characters are important though, I don't expect I'll align with Lightning much, but maybe Snow is a cool guy. I've never played a rpg where there wasn't a main protagonist that I couldn't identify with. But none has compared to Tales of Vesperia and Yuri who (as far as personality goes) could almost be a digital version of myself.
I hope Japan can see this...because I'm doing it as hard as I can
Considering they gave stupid games 40/40 I'm not sure I can trust them, but suffice to say I still can't wait this.
but im going home to taiwan in 2 hours, might pick up a lightning bundle and play the game only when the US version is out
muting the english version and play both at the same time.. personal jap dub ftw!