ultragaijin
06-03-2002, 07:59 AM
FFXI a flop in Japan? (http://www.gamekult.com/finances/article.html?cArticle=a0000017673)
Here 20 best sales of the week in Japan. They are the 20 best sales over the previous week, of Monday May 20 at Sunday 26, provided by the Japanese site Dengeki Online. This week, one attends the rather incredible failure of Final Fantasy XI, which in second week carries out only 7.529 sales, for a total which exceeds hardly 80.000 units sold in two weeks. Squaresoft intended to run out 150.000 to 200.000 specimens twice less time; missed objective. The Japanese players were surely discouraged by the price of the accessories (hard disk, keyboard) and the cost of the subscriptions. The technical problems known by Square with the launching of the play - inopportune disconnections, problems of recording - finished burdening the sales. Nevertheless, Squaresoft always counted on the word of mouth to make take off gently the sales and the subscriptions. Let us guarantee that their analysis was the maid. Though it is, one is very far from the million sales of the preceding shutters of the series, even if if Final Fantasy XI, exclusively online, is it is true a case with share.
Here 20 best sales of the week in Japan. They are the 20 best sales over the previous week, of Monday May 20 at Sunday 26, provided by the Japanese site Dengeki Online. This week, one attends the rather incredible failure of Final Fantasy XI, which in second week carries out only 7.529 sales, for a total which exceeds hardly 80.000 units sold in two weeks. Squaresoft intended to run out 150.000 to 200.000 specimens twice less time; missed objective. The Japanese players were surely discouraged by the price of the accessories (hard disk, keyboard) and the cost of the subscriptions. The technical problems known by Square with the launching of the play - inopportune disconnections, problems of recording - finished burdening the sales. Nevertheless, Squaresoft always counted on the word of mouth to make take off gently the sales and the subscriptions. Let us guarantee that their analysis was the maid. Though it is, one is very far from the million sales of the preceding shutters of the series, even if if Final Fantasy XI, exclusively online, is it is true a case with share.