With 5 million "Final Fantasy XIII" units shipping between the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the decision to take the game to both platforms looks like a good call on Square Enix's part. Their surprise move to give the 360 a try might not have occurred, however, if Microsoft hadn't reached out first and asked them to consider a second console.
"The Xbox team has been asking us to have a ['Final Fantasy'] game developed on our platform," Square Enix president and CEO Yoichi Wada told Siliconera. "Also, the Xbox 360 console is available in many homes in US and European markets so that was not really a hard decision to make.”
That global 5 million mark that Square Enix is reporting would bring the total number of shipped "Final Fantasy" game units to 96 million, according to GamesIndustry.biz. An October 2007 report from Square Enix listed the number of PS2-only "Final Fantasy XII" units shipped at 5.2 million, so they're not far from eclipsing that success.
I haven't seen the breakdown yet between PS3 and 360 copies of "FFXIII" shipped yet, but it will be interesting to see how those numbers compare to the numbers of in-home consoles Sony and Microsoft have.
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