(02-26-2013, 02:12 PM)allgivenover Wrote: XIII-2 also outsold Xillia overall. That's just the first week of sales. It went on to sell something like 2.2 million worldwide. Which is pretty damn sad for a Final Fantasy game. Once again, I'm not making any statements about one game being better or worse than another. I'm certainly having more fun with Graces f than I did with XIII.
And you're right, they really don't value advertising here at all. Hopefully Tales of Graces f selling decently (sucks that 200k copies is decent) here in the states will convince them it's worth the effort to localize more or perhaps go through the effort of running an ad or two.
Their marketing has been the fault of everything about them not making money. They expect tons of revenue while at the same time, not spending a dime on advertising over here. I mean, what do they expect? Though with Graces, it wasn't really... like a major thing, like Vesperia was. No one in the fanbase were really jumping for joy over it.
Didn't Vesperia sell 500k here? I don't remember. But that's a large figure for a game with 0 advertising.
But anyway. You're forgetting that a good chunk of XIII-2's sales were worldwide, and Xilia hasn't been released worldwide, so while XIII-2 probably has passed Xilia by now, I wouldn't make an assumption until Xilia has also released worldwide.
Though beating them in the first week is a big friggin' deal too.
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