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On Friday of last week (November 7 for those without calendars), Squeenix released their latest sales figures and they seem to be doing rather well. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 for the PSP had sold just shy of two million units worldwide since its release.
Just in case you're unfamiliar with Crisis Core (where have you been?) it's the PSP-exclusive, action-RPG prequel to Final Fantasy VII. Good stuff, and a must buy for any fan of the series.
The figures showed Japan to be their strongest market with close to half the total number of units sold credited to them alone. North America was a close second with 610,000 units and Europe finished with 460,000.
The rest of Asia, curiously enough, only sold a paltry 30,000 units despite being the largest potential market. I would assume (and I'm just speculating at this point, mind you) the rampant software piracy in the region skewed the numbers somewhat.
Here's the chart so you can see the numbers for yourself:
The game to watch out for seems to be Dragon Quest IV which, despite a late North American and European release, exploded in the Japanese market to outsell all other Nintendo system games including Final Fantasy IV.
I'm not entirely sure if it's the late release of DQ IV behind its poor North American sales (only 90K units sold vs Japan's 1.1M) or if something was lost in the English version. I vote the former since it was still ranked 18th out of 20 greatest games ever on the NES in an issue of Nintendo Power.
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The numbers don't lie. This game is epic.
I'm not sure why dragon quest never hit other places... i personally, have only seen screenshots.. and to me looks rubbish, but so many japs seem to like it, so I'm not sure why other areas don't :S...marketing?graphics? just weird...