I want to make this 100% clear: if you have a valid argument to make about the decline of sales, I'm interested. I have zero stake in the company, and to be honest, the further away from the game I get, the less favourably lit it is. This has nothing to do with you insulting my binky as much as you'd like to think it is. The reason I say it's trolling is because you're harping on the same argument still. From the same angle. With the same lack of supporting sentences. It came off 100% like you were trying to get a rise out of anyone who read the numbers as the game doing fairly well by grasping at the same straw from months ago. And put it in there without context to further skew the point in your favor.
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Ah, simmer down, please.
RE straws - it's not really grasping at straws so much as looking at the ongoing developing situation and analysing it. I don't give a shit about getting a rise out of anyone, cos yo: if this matters to anyone who isn't worried about balancing SE's books that much I'm not really interested in talking to them and they need to take a damn step back. I'm interested in how the situation will impact the future of the series from a scientific perspective, and as I said, the decline in Japan (fuelled by the market, or the game, or as I believe, both) will have a direct impact on the types of games they choose to make going forwards and who they target them at. Thus it's important to note that while in Japan they've had some success and staved off some of the worries about a total washout, there's still a significant difference to account for (which, I reiterate, is well in excess of the market average) which'll no doubt be analysed deeply within SE.
RE straws - it's not really grasping at straws so much as looking at the ongoing developing situation and analysing it. I don't give a shit about getting a rise out of anyone, cos yo: if this matters to anyone who isn't worried about balancing SE's books that much I'm not really interested in talking to them and they need to take a damn step back. I'm interested in how the situation will impact the future of the series from a scientific perspective, and as I said, the decline in Japan (fuelled by the market, or the game, or as I believe, both) will have a direct impact on the types of games they choose to make going forwards and who they target them at. Thus it's important to note that while in Japan they've had some success and staved off some of the worries about a total washout, there's still a significant difference to account for (which, I reiterate, is well in excess of the market average) which'll no doubt be analysed deeply within SE.
I don't think it was trolling, but rather exploring the whys of the series decline in Japan. @APZonerunner believes it's a combination of the market and the game itself. Myself, I share your view that the game itself had much to do with the decline in sales. The market for Japanese-developed games is elsewhere, and the sales (which are very strong) reflect that. All told, I still think it'll get close to FFX numbers and beat out FFXII and FFXIII. That's enough evidence to show the brand still is healthy. More importantly, the brand is able to evolve to meet the demands of the shifting marketplace. I still love the hell out of the game, warts and all, and I look forward to seeing the lessons learned here implemented into FFXVI.
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Resi is a weird outlier because - as I detailed a few posts ago - Capcom has basically given up on the Japanese market for it and fully targeted it at the West (and it'll work out, I think). Resi, like FF, is tracking a decline in Japan that's a lot sharper than the average (though it still topped the charts)
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Does this confirm 6 million units sold?
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/02/01/final-fantasy-xv-director-still-wants-port-game-high-end-pcs/
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/02/01/final-fantasy-xv-director-still-wants-port-game-high-end-pcs/
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Hope this dosent mean they think they could release 16 incomplete and that is ok and it will sell.
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It's incomplete and rushed, slap dashed together to make a quick buck, don't even. It's not just the cut content even though it's apart of it, this narrative is missing cutscenes, necessary cutscenes, and plot points, that are introduced in the later half of the game, but are completely undeveloped.
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Don't worry bruh, they'll make Final Fantasy XVI 75% percent of a game and release the other 25% as an expansion and DLCs, oh and don't forget the several year hype train. Oh and don't worry you will have misleading hype trailers to, years, and years of over-promising, and hyping. All culminating in a disappointing climax. and it will sell just fine.
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Well luckily the old games, were great story rich complete experiences at least the best ones of course. Then XII-XIV happened. That didn't overpromise and under-deliver Also the problem with FFXV isn't just that it's unfinished, no the game is lacking regardless of it being finished or not. Unlike VI, VII, VIII, IX, X
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