Final Fantasy XIII launch day sales exceed 1 million in Japan

by Ben Gilbert on Dec 18th 2009 4:40PM

In the roughly 24 hours since Square Enix dropped Final Fantasy XIII into retailers across Japan, over 1 million consumers have snagged the game for their PlayStation 3s. The Japanese publisher says that the number doesn't include the Lightning Edition PS3 hardware bundles, which would presumably add another handful of copies to the grand total. With another few months to go until North American gamers can hungrily grab up the sequel, we'll have to focus our time on jewelry contests instead.

[Via Kotaku]

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Reader Comments (64)

@acefondu that was a total, counting lost hours to deaths and such, and 100% in less than 100 hours. the PS1 games maybe.

@Zexion,

I found the main campaign for oblivion to be rather short. You can definitely make it take longer doing everything else, but that can be said for most FF games as well. Main storyline for FF games, from my experience, were much longer than Oblivion's.

Sorry man. If you're playing a Bethesda game for the main storyline, you're doing it wrong. I've played Morrowind for many, many hours and don't think I've ever gone further than Caius Cossade's house.

Zexion_VI > The older Final Fantasy games weren't on Blu-Ray/DVDs so er, yeah, this game is probably going to be longer.

Stop the Press! Final Fantasy game does well in Japan!

Pretty shocking stuff. Personally, I'm going to call it: Global Recession Over

You can thank me for providing this update.

Not surprisingly, I know from the beginning how Crazy Japan was going to be about this Game and with the HUGE Ad Campaign, it can't be other way, just watch this:

http://vimeo.com/8239760

Awesome!, thanks for the link :)

And whats the verdict on the game? Even though I'm sure the reviewers will be generous.. Im still curious to find out what they give it.

Those Japs must not care that theres only 37 trophies.

Someone spoiled the game for me. :(

Mmmmm Can't wait till this game releases in the US to see how many it sells on the first day. I'm one of the millions in the US that's preordered it and i know for a fact this game will sell atleast 1.5M in the US on the first day. Where i live just asking the local gamestop how many pre-orderes they have, back last year he said their is over 500,000 here in the state of NY that have preordered it. NY has a population of 19M people so i know damn well this game will be a smash hit in the states.