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Originally Posted by ZGoten
Well, what qualifies as a major hit? FFXIII sold 2.7 million copies in NA (1.57 for the PS3 and 1.13 for the 360). That's quite a lot, actually. However, Pokemon Black and White, which are also JRPG's from 2010, sold 5.3 million copies combined. The follow up games fell down to 1.99 million sales in 2012. Aside from that, though, there hasn't been any JRPG in the past five years, that passed the 1.5 million mark. Not even the Persona series.
There were a few games that should have, though. Like The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles. Sadly they only sold 180.000 and 390.000 units respectable. It kind of makes me angry at the market, to see such excellent games not getting the sales they deserve.
Source: vgchartz.com
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Bigger companies for mainstream titles put more money into developing the game and promoting it via advertisements.
Final Fantasy is anything but a niche game, so S-E naturally would expect several million copies sold.
Let's say for example that the next mainline 3D Mario game only sells 1 million copies. Considering its history would you honestly consider that number to be a success?
Perhaps there is a bit of a "power creep" on expectations, but the fact is that bigger titles have high expectations for success placed on them.