From: NeoElfboy | #251
(Japanese figures, all pulled quickly from Wikipedia)
Crisis Core sold 350k in its first week, 790k in its first year.
FFXIII-2 sold 524k in its first week, and 697k in its first two weeks. It's almost certainly ahead of Crisis Core already, and if not it will be shortly.
Not necessarily. Sales in Japan are extremely front loaded. Games will usually sell 80-90% of their lifetime sales in the first two weeks there. XIII-2 isn't breaking a million, putting it at around 40% of XIII's sales. That is a hell of a drop, and far, far worse than the drop between X and X-2. Of course, FF sales in general are down (mainly due to the death of console gaming in Japan, it's all about handhelds) but in terms of sales relative to the original, that's pretty bad. Still, I imagine it could be profitable due to not costing very much.
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