Square hopes to sell over six million copies of FFXIII

  • Posted September 29th, 2009 at 12:31 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Square Enix has said the developer is targeting global sales of Final Fantasy XIII at over six million units, boasted company CEO and president, Yoichi Wada.

The executive hopes that the mammoth JRPG outing will trump worldwide shipments of Square’s highly successful Dragon Quest IX, which hit Nintendo DS in Japan back in July of this year.

Final Fantasy XIII will be winging its way to Japanese PS3’s in December, with a western conversion shipping in spring 2010.

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  1. PS3!!!!! | FOXY007

    • 12:34pm BST - September 29th, 2009

     doesnt everyone aspire to do this haha

  2. higgos22

    • 12:34pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    He is probably right

    And in Japan the FF13 bundle is gonna sell alot of PS3's aswell

    This game will be pretty succesful

    Platinum more than likely

  3. Two4DaMoney

    • 12:35pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    It'll likely do that on the ps3 alone.

  4. AaronSOLDIER | AaronSOLDIER

    • 12:35pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    They'll easily do it

  5. KH_Fan01

    • 12:36pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    FFX did 7mil

    FFVII has done 10mil+ and counting

    The first FF release on consoles is always the best selling. Then the numbers decline for each other title. Will be interesting to see VersusXIII PS3 sales against XIII PS3 sales. 

  6. netherdragon | netherdragon

    • 12:41pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    cant see why it wont sell that many, unless somehow they manage to make an awful game, but i cant see that happening tbh

  7. Overcast | Gamenificent

    • 12:41pm BST - September 29th, 2009

     Well it's the first HD Next generation FF so I'm sure it probably will.

  8. Kazuya10

    • 12:42pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    New trailer is so so EPIC! How come PSU haven't posted it yet but post boring news about sales...jk jk

    Unsubbed- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYmIOME1JE&fmt=22

    Subbed-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irmh_w03x_U&fmt=22

  9. SuPeR-67 | SuPeR-67

    • 1:12pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    I have a dragon that poops pizza! i will not be getting this game, why? because its going to feel like a ps2 game with scripted everything, your every move will trigger some stupid cut scene. im sick of that. gamers must understand that game play that lasts is the game play developed in sandbox landscapes. yes its true almost all games get boring after time, but tell me your don’t still pop in GTA5 or Red Faction from time to time, but ill bet you never still pop in Ninja Gaydone. Please also understand that this is my opinion about the game and would not like it if people put me down just for exercising my free speech.

  10. jamesobachand | sNaKe2112

    • 2:00pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    This game has a good chance.

  11. SpyroViper

    • 2:12pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    Well they will now it's going to the 360..

  12. Jante

    • 2:13pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    One here................ still they need to sell  5'999'999      :P

  13. Large_Tonberry | Jon_Bright

    • 2:14pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    My Prediction:

    Japan: 2 mil
    Europe: 1.5 mil
    America: 1.5 mil

    And that's bearing in mind that the sales have been going downhill ever since FFVII, not to mention that Square have destroyed their once excellent reputation with crappy sequels, spin offs and decisions that have pissed a lot of people off.

  14. tgf5 | tgf5

    • 2:56pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    @9 No one cares.

  15. Pledius

    • 3:21pm BST - September 29th, 2009

     @9

    cool story bro

  16. Cloudie

    • 4:25pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    Is that all?

     

  17. Versus

    • 5:31pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    @9 has clearly never played a FF game. FF is not the sorry MGS4 in which i am admittedly against.

    to the topic tho, i think XIII will easily sell 6mil+ over its life time. it'll sell 2-3mil from the first few weeks. iknow ill be buying 2-3 copies of the game :)

  18. A_Ninja | Arabia_Ninja

    • 6:08pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    it will sell alot of copies .. but not that much ... i remember FFX, FFX-2 & FFXII couldnt sell that much ... at least FFX sold more than 6 m as of january 2004 (3 years later)... and the the PS2 numbers at that time is more than the PS3 & Xbox 360 combined today

  19. KH_Fan01

    • 6:17pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    @18

    FFX and XII are in the top 10 selling PS2 games.

     

    This will be the same. 

  20. Olly1234

    • 7:26pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    They will, and mostly in japan.

  21. restored_lost | Restored_lost

    • 7:30pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    thats too realistic for a company to predict lol. its actually sorta modest.

  22. Seahawkk | Py72o

    • 7:54pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    ill be one of those 6 million :D

  23. Overcast | Gamenificent

    • 8:32pm BST - September 29th, 2009

     I had both the 360 and the PS3 before the RROD situation came into play but if I didn't have a PS3 yet I would have bought one just for this game and the new Star Ocean International. The 360 is starting to show it's limitations other than the high failure rate these larger games are starting to be put on multiple disc and it's a pain in the butt when you have the option to have it on one disc.

  24. Olly1234

    • 8:53pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    @23

    Very true. If only microsoft could invent discs with more space that work on any 360.

  25. Muzikguy | Muzikguy

    • 9:06pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    I'll be one of those 6 million


  26. Trooper19281

    • 9:32pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    I dont realy care for final fantasy, but Kingdom Hearts looks awesome!

  27. jphuff | jhuff

    • 9:57pm BST - September 29th, 2009

    Gee... don't you think they'd have a good chance of selling this many on PS3 ALONE, considering how popular past FF titles have been? This seems a bit odd, but I guess these days they have to come up with some number to set expectations.

     

  28. A-HAAA

    • 2:22am BST - September 30th, 2009

     @5

    versus will sell more

  29. primalbreath | jdawg222

    • 2:26am BST - September 30th, 2009

    well, this is one sale right here.

  30. C64isStillTheBest

    • 2:42am BST - October 1st, 2009

    Will get 13 when it becomes a Greatest Hits title, will probably get Versus 13 when it comes out so that they get my full dollars for an exclusive, just like 7-12.

     

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