Advent Children Complete sells 274k, FFXIII demo pushes PS3 to top of sales chart

holy shitt.... anime bundled with a FF13 demo sold a shit-ton of copies. never would have evaarr guessed... ever

Squeidox as of Thursday.

Didn't they acquire Taito at some point? Shouldn't it be Squenitaidos?

ps3 suxorz l0l!!!!

[insert coment here about how much Gears 2/Halo 3 sold in one day, and how Japanese people love their Xbox 360 the most.)

Kidding of course, I love my litt... my big gaming machine. It's just too bad my dresser doesn't have enough room for it and the 360 and the TV.

what??!!?

Can we talk about the economy instead?

@Killiam

economy suxorz l0l!!!!!!

At least this one is remotely true, unlike what people shout about their most/least favorite console.

"insert funny but really stupid anti-ps3 comment here"

You would be wrong on that so far, and comments like these have been largely wrong for a long time. They're getting pretty tired, and we'd all be better off if you had just congratulated SE and Sony for their success.

Reuben sandwiches are the best sandwiches of this generation. All other sandwiches are inferior, and anyone who disagrees is a "n00b."

Hao, you made me want a reuben... And I haven't even eaten breakfast yet...

I'd probably want VS more as well if I could only see some gameplay of it. Movies are cool and all, but I'd like to see what I'm gonna be playing not just watching. Give us something to be excited for at E3 VsXIII team! All that leather and hairspray will only get you so far!

a regular blu ray version with out the demo, one with a demo, and a bundle with a ps3 and the blu ray version with the demo.

try saying that 3 times :)

You are thinking of the FIRST DAY sales, which were around 174K or something like that. This is the full week's sales.

Ahh, thank you.

Been doing it for a while. I thin kit slipped last week though. which does mean the PS had been the best selling console in Japan the last few month's. until the PS3 overtook it. Sony had roughly 2/3r'ds of the sales last week in Japan. pretty impressive feat.

there are 3 types:

a regular blu ray version with out the demo, a blu ray version with a demo, and a bundle with a ps3 and the blu ray version with the demo.

try saying that 3 times :)

So then was this the movie+demo that sold so well, or the movie+demo+system that sold so well? It would be nice if they would shows sales of the movie/demo and the movie/demo/system separately.

complete gets the demo i think.

and 20 mins of extra footage as well as the character's models getting dirtier and damaged as the fights progress

they added 30 extra minutes and some special features.

Complete is the version on Blu-Ray i believe. there's like 3 of them though as some are more "complete" than others coming with the FFXIII demo and/or a PS3.

AC Complete is actually the director's cut. It's makes a WHOLE LOT more sense than the first iteration, which seemed to give very little information about seemingly important aspects of the movie, like: Who is Denzel, what really is Geostigma, etc. The dialogue/actual spoken words has been reworked a little to make more sense for an English audience as well. It's about 30 minutes longer than the original DVD

I will say that the new scenes that they added look REALLY good. However, a lot of the old scenes were not really RERENDERED per se. It's like the comparison between what ZSNES games look like on normal mode, and then AA'd with the 2x Super Eagle or HQX engine. It smooths out the jaggies, but doesn't actually offer any more DETAIL. Many of the scenes in FF7:ACC look like they were upscaled in the same way(or possible just rendered at higher resolution) without adding any new detail/polygons, with the exception of some mud and blood on their faces/body at certain scenes. It does look better than the DVD on all scenes, but only in the same way that the HQX renders of SNES games look better than the blocky versions. Don't underestimate it, it does look great, but not as great as all the new scenes. It's very obvious which scenes are new, even if you didn't watch the original movie. I still love it though.

just new conten on complete with never before seen and a demo with it if u get the one with demo and there a non demo ff7 acc .

everyone already got there from europ if you order from playasia but USA still on the way is a 15 days shippling.

still waiting for mine and i pre order this way back in feb12 . was sent out the 15 of april.

They've got to realize that the FF7 train is going to run out soon. The people who played that game as young teenagers are getting close to 30 years old now and are possibly growing out of video games. It's obvious that there is still a demand for it, and if they were to release a remake of it, it would be the best selling game in Japan of this generation (excluding all the crap on the Wii/DSi). I mean, we're in a huge freaking recession, so why not focus your energies on the one IP that you have that will give you a license to print money? I seriously can't understand what they are waiting for!!!

Nintendo could do it too. Then it would be easier (cheaper) for Square Enix to do, and still sell just as much

FF7 is releasing in Japan as a PS1 classic if it hasn't already done so. I'm not sure it would make much sense to re-make for the Wii considering the purpose of these remakes is to do them in high definition.

It would be the worst thing S-E could do ever.
Die-hard fan's would complain because it SE would change something. With the chance to remake it they'd be so so tempted to tweak it, even if it's some dialouge or something. With the chance for 3D environment's instead of the poly's walking on a 2D painting, no random encounter's, you'd want to change it. And people will call fowl.
Their best bet is to just release the PS1 version on PS Store globally. it takes no developing, it'll be exactly the same game everyone remember's.
Think of the new Star Trek film. People will complain that the Kirk isn't Shatner's Kirk, the Enterprise look's different, the acting is different, and the Bridge n computer's are all different, but as pointed out if you want to see Shatner's Kirk, the old deck, redshirt's getting killed and KHANN!!!! then you watch the orignal movies.

Oh n FFVII isn't the greatest game in the world either. Good but not great. Personally I want a FFIX remake, but I like the original, and can still play it on the PS3, so I don't care that FFIXHD doesn't' exist.

Of all final fantasies, VII deserves the remake treatment the most. Why? Well, have you PLAYED it? FFVII was really a mishmash of various art styles and an inconsistant product. Not other Final Fantasy felt as disjointed as VII. So from that standpoint, I want to see a remake just to remove the blemish from the series.

You can remove the blemish of the series by simply burying it and forgetting it ever happened.

Crisis Core was a decent enough pseudo-remake that told all the important bits of the FF7 story and was pretty. Also the main character doesn't make you want to kill yourself or make a Linkin Park/FF7 AMV. Villain still sucks though.

Dude, every time I see your picture, my mind automatically screams "VERGIL!" (from DMC)


Sorry 'bout the offtopicness. It had to be said.

Just to go back off-topic:
Whenever I see your his avatar, I think of Star Wars

yea if sony wernt so stupid to let microsoft have it. I dont think the retail game will make people buy many PS3's since they already have an xbox. Sucks i know. Would be a completly different story if it was kept as an exclusive.

@tektro
My two house mate's are getting PS3's to play this game ( and a few other's, ie GOW 3 n Uncharted 1+2)
They know it'll come out on their 360's, but they also know it's had 5 year's of development for PS3, and it'll have a 6 month port to 360. and one of em's played SE games on a 360, and though I have pointed out it's a different engine, Last Remnant was a bit too glitchy for his taste's.

Tektro

The thing is that it's still an exclusive in the Japan. Everyone in Japan who wants to play Final Fantasy will have to do so on their PS3. It's likely the 360 version will sell more in North America because of the difference in install base.

@Tektro:
Sony had nothing to do with letting Mircosoft getting FF13 it was all Square, it was a good and bad business move at the same time, on one hand Square it guaranteed to make more money from the NA install base from both PS3 and 360.
On the other hand they delayed a game that was 95% done on the PS3 just because Square (or Mircosoft) wanted a simultaneous release on both consoles. But i think people who have both consoles will get it on the PS3 ( as stated above, a longer dev time for PS3) and the others will get it from the one console they own(like me, PS3).