Final Fantasy XIII has finally released to an eager Japanese audience and proven once again why it's such an important franchise for Square Enix. The publisher revealed that over one million copies of Final Fantasy XIII sold in Japan on its first day of availability, not counting copies of the game bundled with a PS3.
Famitsu [thanks Andriasang] has followed up on this and confirmed that Final Fantasy XIII sold 1,516,532 units its first week, including the hardware bundle, pushing far past the company's originally projected shipment of the game for the first week. Additionally, the PS3 saw a significant sales boost during the week, moving 245,406 units.
Here's the bundle Japanese gamers are getting.
Over the period of a few days, Final Fantasy XIII has become the best selling PS3 title ever in Japan (not just first day or week, EVER) and helped the PS3 shatter the record for most units sold in a week, previously set during the launch of the PS3 Slim.
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December 21, 2009
Which is why PS3 fan(boy)s wanted sony to pay for some of these big Franchises to stay PS3 exclusive but after learning why they didn't this is really the best thing. They still get the game and it will sell decently and they keep their money to make PlayStation Exclusives that will never see release outside of the PlayStation Brand unless they sell the IP or something.
Don't care about Final Fantasy but did really good for PS3 in Japan.