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Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: fastson on May 17, 2002, 04:45:19 AM
Yep.. Suck...it...down..naysayers!

Looks like FFXI with HDD and BBA is already a success! w00t! :eek:

1 PS2 - [SIZE=8]FINAL FANTASY XI[/SIZE]   - Square - 2002/05/16
2 PS - Captain wings New tradition prologue - KONAMI 2002/05/16
3 PS2 - World soccer Winning eleven 6 - KONAMI 2002/04/25
4 PS2 - DDRMAX -Dance Dance Revolution 6th MIX - KONAMI 2002/05/16
5 PS2 - Movement fighter cancer dam Ambition of GIREN Account of ? JION war of independence - BANDAI 2002/05/02
6 PS2 - On-the-spot world soccer 2002 - KONAMI 2002/05/16
7 PS2 - Heat CHU! Professional baseball 2002 - NAMCO 2002/04/18
8 PS2 - King dam HATSU - Square 2002/03/28
9 PS - World soccer Winning eleven 2002 - KONAMI 2002/04/25
10 GBA - Lock man Zero - Capcom 2002/04/26

About the sellout... I cant access insider but thats whats what the title says on ps2.ign.com :D
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: GmanJoe on May 17, 2002, 05:14:38 AM
I need to get broad band installed in my house before this comes to the US.

We should form a team here. But I have a feeling the Viking race of present day Sweden is gonna hog all the enemies and  plunder all our experience points - just like they used to back in the Dark Ages! ;)
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: ooseven on May 17, 2002, 06:17:16 AM
me counts down the seconds till DirectXbox or other naysayers comes in and says.

"But thats JUST in Japan and its Just Launch figures on one game ;)"


:p


:laughing: talk about EGG on ther FACE :D
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on May 17, 2002, 06:58:33 AM
can Sony dothe impossible?  A SUCCESSFUL ADD-ON!?!

still too early to tell, but things are picking up..

so is the likelyhood of a successful Online plan from Sony..

way to go Square  *kisses random Squares and Racer*
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: The Stapler on May 17, 2002, 07:46:35 AM
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
can Sony dothe impossible?  A SUCCESSFUL ADD-ON!?!


It did it once with the Dual Shock.
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on May 17, 2002, 09:05:35 AM
fastson is that list an official chart of Japanese sales? If it\'s... my god... PS2 rocks Japanese market. :surprised
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Heretic on May 17, 2002, 09:44:17 AM
The IGN article doesn\'t give any sales numbers. The only other real info is that the number of copies available was probably a lot less than when X was released. Duh! Good thing, Square\'s server got buried as it was with folks trying to register right after it went on sale.

One thing I didn\'t realize until yesterday is you need the HD to play FFXI. I had just been getting used to the idea Sony had put the whole HD issue on the back burner for now. Wrong!
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: mm on May 17, 2002, 09:51:07 AM
BWUWHAHAHAHAHA!

who was ever to doubt?

i\'d like to dedicate this to directxbox and EVERY xbox zealot out there.  you may officially eat our crumbs

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fps2media.ign.com%2Fps2%2Fimage%2Fsakura.jpg&hash=919c22a3e8938dad315d3475f1524ecf6083c6d3)
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: fastson on May 17, 2002, 01:15:09 PM
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Originally posted by Adan
fastson is that list an official chart of Japanese sales? If it\'s... my god... PS2 rocks Japanese market. :surprised


Its a Japanese Daily Top 10 chart.. Updates once a day.. :)

EDIT: Btw.. Square shipped 400 000 units.. Not bad if they all were soldout ;)
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: clowd on May 17, 2002, 02:09:32 PM
i never doubted the adapter add on once i heard top play station two franchises (final fantasy, gran turismo, twisted metal black) were going on line

but im not sure about that 100 dollar hard drive . i will get it but not sure about everyone else.. . .

any ways this is no fun having to wait 6+ months for this game...
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Simchoy on May 17, 2002, 02:37:12 PM
For a game that was NEVER expected to hit a million (due to the obvious fact that its an online only game. Which few people especially console, are into) amazing. Wonder what will the sales be like once it hits the states.
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: lunar3 on May 17, 2002, 05:51:14 PM
how many did they sell 200,000.

Nice try but even sony can\'t sell 100.00+ add ons and a 40.00 game. even if its japanese favorite final fantasy.
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Chrono on May 17, 2002, 05:57:20 PM
sorry folks, but I was unable to decifer lunar3\'s post.. can anyone help me out?
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Simchoy on May 17, 2002, 05:58:30 PM
And what makes you the know all to what Sony can and can do? :rolleyes: Look, even I am certain this game will not sell spectacularly well because of its nature (online only), but for an online game only that requires the hard drive, even if it was JUST 200,000, that is pretty good. Now, how much they have sold, don\'t know. But given that this game has sold out in many areas, that is still great.

Remember Everquest? The game only has like 500,000 subscribers. Yet this IS the most successful online only game so far. If FFXI can even match that (on a system where a harddrive and internet connection are not out of the box which MS likes to tout for their system) that would still be an amazing achivements.

[edit]From what I can gather on Lunar3\'s post, he was trying to downplay FFXI being sold out by saying "well, how much did they REALLY sell because I (Lunar3) believes that Sony is incapable of selling add-ons (especailly the harddrive)." Gave some arbitrary number (200,000) and implying at least that this was a bad number. At least, this is what I thought what he was trying to say (not in so many words, but yeah).
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: mm on May 17, 2002, 06:26:11 PM
lunar3 = hater

just admit it man, the sony addon is a blazing success
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: lunar3 on May 17, 2002, 07:21:50 PM
lunar3 = a pissed of 21 year old that can\'t drive(just learners license ,just bought a 1997 dodge neon for 3,000 and 1 day later the dam engine light comes on. So now iam like wtf. Just my luck i get a lemon sign 50 papers saying am ****ed no matter what. Yea I hate everything right now. I now have to make a choice use the small amout of money i have to get insurance to learn to drive the junk or take it to a auto shop to see how bad i got ripped off.

Iam thinking about just driving it with the engine service light on but who knows mabye ill wake up in the morning and magic faires will have fixed it.

I still owe 2,000 on it and that pisses me off. So everyone if you learn something from the story always have a mechanic check out what your buying,or get a warrenty.
Title: ...
Post by: Simchoy on May 17, 2002, 07:30:00 PM
...okay. So...you posted a post that tried to downplay the success of FFXI because you weren\'t able to get a driver license until 21? Or your just mad that you got screwed when buying a car? :rolleyes:
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: lunar3 on May 17, 2002, 07:30:43 PM
Both.
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on May 17, 2002, 10:51:44 PM
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Originally posted by Clowd
but im not sure about that 100 dollar hard drive . i will get it but not sure about everyone else.. . .


but FFXI requires the HDD  :)  and it seems to be doing ok for itself  :)
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Heretic on May 17, 2002, 11:05:28 PM
lunar3, try disconecting the battery ground for a few minutes to see if that makes the light stay off for a while. If you know the vitals are all good, just drive and don\'t fret about it until you can afford to find out what the light is trying to tell you.

Sony sold about 40,000 HD BBas the day they offered them in Japan, I think it was nearly a year ago. I imagine they sold a few since. We should here some real #s soon enough.
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on May 18, 2002, 12:52:11 AM
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Originally posted by fastson
EDIT: Btw.. Square shipped 400 000 units.. Not bad if they all were soldout ;)


400.000? I heard they were near 200.000 units... great then :p
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: kopking on May 18, 2002, 03:29:05 AM
woot.. sounds great, cant wait to get my ps2 online
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: clowd on May 18, 2002, 04:52:09 AM
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware


but FFXI requires the HDD  :)  and it seems to be doing ok for itself  :)


now this is something.  thay actually payed $200 to play a game online!  not just any game though
Title: FFXI has soldout!
Post by: Sublimesjg on May 18, 2002, 12:25:30 PM
well thats good to hear after hearing about all the mess with japanese not liking it and it feeling too american and all

glad to see otherwise

cant wait for it over here