Final Fantasy XIII’s First-Day Sales Numbers Are In

Final Fantasy XIII was released in Japan yesterday. A day later, Square Enix have released figures revealing how many copies of the game were sold during its first 24 hours on the shelf.

And that number has “exceeded one million”. Which, well, makes it sound like they sold between 1 and 1.1 million. The news was disclosed in a statement released by Square Enix today, which also states that copies of the game sold bundled with a PS3 – as part of the “Lightning Edition” – were not included in that figure. If you account for those, the figure would be slightly higher.

Square Enix said yesterday that two million copies of the game had been shipped to retailers. Now, there’s no way Sony sold one million Lightning Editions, so… anyone hanging on an import copy, don’t sweat it, doesn’t sound like the game’s completely sold out.

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    whatthi

    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:34 PM

    ..and counting..

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    legless joe

    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 8:36 PM

    They probably sold 1000001, lol.

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    Dunnowhathuh

    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 8:46 PM

    I just hope this isn’t as much of a letdown as FFXII was (in my opinion that is).

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      Goraxium

      Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 1:00 AM

      I don’t think it’s just your opinion… I don’t think I’ve seen anybody say they liked it…

      Hell, I preferred playing Dragon Quest VIII more than FFXII, and I’m not exactly a big fan of turn-based games…

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    bleach1st

    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:29 PM

    I’ve been watching it for many many hours on justin.tv for the last couple of days… believe me, I don’t think it’s gonna be a letdown :D It looks so cool in action

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    lcb

    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM

    I hope this game is as magical a journey as final fantasy X. I wish i ps3 played ps2 games………. D: D: D: D:

    final fantasy 13 please dont dissapoint :D.

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    picky

    Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 12:41 AM

    aaw yeh no 360 in japan!

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