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Square Enix announced yesterday that Final Fantasy XIII had seen an initial shipment of 1.8 million units. Impressive indeed, but how many of those were actually sold to customers?
Today, the company revealed just that. FFXIII sold a massive one million copies in its first day of sales on the 17th.
This is particularly impressive when you consider that as of last week, the PS3 hardware had sold just 4 million units life to date in Japan. It's unknown how many people bought the PS3 hardware with the game yesterday, but this does appear to be a high attach rate.
For Japan, FFXIII instantly became the best selling PS3 game in history, and the only game to cross the million mark. Previously, Metal Gear Solid 4 was the system's highest selling game.
The one million figure does not include units sold as part of the special "Lightning" limited edition PS3 model. It should also be noted that it only covers one day of sales. Next week's sales charts will also include Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Perhaps total first week sales for FFXIII will be closer to Square Enix's initial shipment.
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I expect that the japanese will have videos of their grand playing up on youtube by monday.
Today, the company revealed just that. FFXIII sold a massive one million copies in its first day of sales on the 17th.
This is particularly impressive when you consider that as of last week, the PS3 hardware had sold just 4 million units life to date in Japan. It's unknown how many people bought the PS3 hardware with the game yesterday, but this does appear to be a high attach rate.
For Japan, FFXIII instantly became the best selling PS3 game in history, and the only game to cross the million mark. Previously, Metal Gear Solid 4 was the system's highest selling game.
The one million figure does not include units sold as part of the special "Lightning" limited edition PS3 model. It should also be noted that it only covers one day of sales. Next week's sales charts will also include Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Perhaps total first week sales for FFXIII will be closer to Square Enix's initial shipment.
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I expect that the japanese will have videos of their grand playing up on youtube by monday.
