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March 10, 2010 12:21:37 PM   

As seen on FinalFantasyUnion.com:

Already, Square Enix has announced just how well Final Fantasy XIII did with its North American and European yesterday. In a Japanese press release they proclaimed 5 million units have been, wait for it, shipped worldwide. That includes Japanese shipping numbers, which is somewhere around the 2 million units mark, thus about 3 million copies of Final Fantasy XIII went up for sale at retailers in North America and Europe yesterday.

As usual with shipment numbers, they just mean the number of copies of the game that were made, and sold to retailers by Square Enix; they do not reflect how many copies of the game were actually sold in stores to gamers. Nevertheless, those look like pretty good numbers, pushing the Final Fantasy series to 96 million units shipped worldwide to-date.

No word on the consoles split, but for most series fans, the console sales split will be the most interesting numbers.
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March 10, 2010 12:57:33 PM   

Well if they all sell it will be the best selling PS3 game so far (with Gran Turismo 5: Prologue circa 4.65 million atm). According to good old Wikipedia, Final Fantasy XIII has sold 1.8 million (ranking it 9th), but that doesn't take into account ANY of the western sales. I wonder where its actually at in the leaderboard.

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March 10, 2010 01:20:21 PM   

gilburtgtr Wrote:Well if they all sell it will be the best selling PS3 game so far (with Gran Turismo 5: Prologue circa 4.65 million atm). According to good old Wikipedia, Final Fantasy XIII has sold 1.8 million (ranking it 9th), but that doesn't take into account ANY of the western sales. I wonder where its actually at in the leaderboard.

no. lol please dont use Wiki as a resource unless the page is locked because they probably grab vgchartz estimations and throw them on wiki.
there are 7+ or games that sold more then GT5:Prolouge which i don't think even hit the 4 million mark. I heard on a podcast (a few weeks ago) that the Sales of MW2 on PS3 where over/around 7 million and GTA 4 on PS3 was close to hitting 6.5 million.. soo FFXIII has a long way to go if it wants to reach that... But FFXIII will sell alot judging by the lack of copies left at alot of my local stores. lol

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March 10, 2010 06:13:59 PM   

I've heard that lots of places have had difficulty with keeping stock for any amount of time, so I would guess that they've sold pretty much everything that's shipped. Big Grin

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March 10, 2010 06:41:20 PM   

gilburtgtr Wrote:Well if they all sell it will be the best selling PS3 game so far (with Gran Turismo 5: Prologue circa 4.65 million atm). According to good old Wikipedia, Final Fantasy XIII has sold 1.8 million (ranking it 9th), but that doesn't take into account ANY of the western sales. I wonder where its actually at in the leaderboard.

Haha, I use this sometimes... But I can't wait to see the console split salesBig Grin.

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March 10, 2010 06:52:17 PM   

Astharis Wrote:I've heard that lots of places have had difficulty with keeping stock for any amount of time, so I would guess that they've sold pretty much everything that's shipped. Big Grin

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I know! The store that i got mine at during the midnight madness was out of PS3 copies by noon that day. The other GS a few miles away ran out today of both. The guides all got eaten up too. No more CE Guides are left with in hundreds of miles of where i live.

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March 13, 2010 06:53:19 AM   

Kaos24 Wrote:no. lol please dont use Wiki as a resource unless the page is locked because they probably grab vgchartz estimations and throw them on wiki.
there are 7+ or games that sold more then GT5:Prolouge which i don't think even hit the 4 million mark. I heard on a podcast (a few weeks ago) that the Sales of MW2 on PS3 where over/around 7 million and GTA 4 on PS3 was close to hitting 6.5 million.. soo FFXIII has a long way to go if it wants to reach that... But FFXIII will sell alot judging by the lack of copies left at alot of my local stores. lol

I am pretty sure MW2 did not sell anywhere near as much as 7 million on PS3, as that was the figure for around how many sold on Xbox (IIRC). I know Wikipedia is hardly that reliable, but if you look at the sources, you can tell which sales figures you can rely on. For example, Polyphony has its own page showing sales figures: http://www.polyphony.co.jp/english/list.html I think those figures that you pulled out about MW and GTA are not likely, and how reliable is this podcast? It seems a little hypocritical to tell someone not to use Wikipedia as a source (which has its own list of sources), and then name figures that are barely even sourced at all ("a podcast").

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March 13, 2010 11:21:55 AM   

still we should wait untill the game is a little farther back in our rear view mirror

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