@Marokai: You don't like it, that's fine, just wanted to dispute a couple errors there.
"the average player didn't really love FFXIII" - Not really true at all, people here loved the game. It remains the fastest selling Final Fantasy to date. There are vocal folks who disliked it of course, but there has been for just about every Final Fantasy, that's really nothing new whatsoever. In the west, critically speaking, it didn't do as well sure, but we're talking about the 'average' gamer it seems. It's sold 6.2 million copies to date, which is a bit under FFX, which has been around a lot longer, was generally well received, and on a platform most everyone had. That's not bad sales figures by any means, and actually the 4th highest in the series to date. (7, 8, and 10 sold more). Not saying this necessarily means it's a good game or not, but a game doesn't sell that much if the average player just doesn't like it.
Sure compared to that, 500,000 sales doesn't seem like that much in the first week. That's not bad figures at all though for a direct sequel on a console that isn't super saturated everywhere. X-2 sold 3 million in it's entire lifetime worldwide (2 million in Japan), and XIII-2 is already at about 1.5 without having launched outside Japan. Those numbers...are pretty close. Only 500,000 behind X-2's lifetime sales in Japan.
I'm not saying you have to like the game or something, though I do stand by the fact that you may be very pleasantly surprised with XIII-2 even if you hated XIII. Just wanted to correct some misconceptions in the data and how you were looking at it. Not to mention, are we really trying to say that selling half a MILLION copies of a video game in its first week is a cause for alarm?
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