Final Fantasy XIII Earns Platinum PlayStation Award
Final Fantasy XIIIWe're approaching the end of the year, and that can only mean one thing: award time.
But this particular set of awards deals almost exclusively with sales; we say "almost" because this year, there was a new fan favorite category at the annual PlayStation Awards in Japan. It's an event where Sony honors the best-selling PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Network titles released between November 1, 2009 and October 31, 2010 in the Land of the Rising Sun. This year, only one game was worthy of the top-tier Platinum Award, which honors any game that can sell over 1 million copies in Japan. And that game was Square-Enix's Final Fantasy XIII, which has also sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide. The interesting part is that FFXIII qualified for this award with 24 hours of release...yeah, the Japanese still love FF.
As for Gold Awards, which are given to products that sell more than 500,000 units: Yakuza 4 and Fist of the North Star Warriors for the PS3 and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, God Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Phantasy Star Portable 2, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Monster Hunter Diary for the PSP. In regards to the User Choice Awards, we find popular titles like God of War III, Final Fantasy XIII (yes, again), Peace Walker, Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition and, perhaps surprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This implies we'll see Black Ops on the User Choice award list next year and that isn't what's normally expected from Japan. But hey, the entire world is changing; not just the west.
Related Game(s): Final Fantasy XIII
Tags: ffxiii, final fantasy xiii, square-enix, ffxiii ps3
12/5/2010 8:43:55 PM Ben Dutka
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Alienange
Sunday, December 05, 2010 @ 11:01:19 PM
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Look alive Capcom, you're on the WRONG system.
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Lawless SXE
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 12:56:06 AM
Peace.
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Pandacastro
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 12:05:41 PM
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Lawless SXE
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 12:45:27 PM
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Pandacastro
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 1:46:58 PM
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CHAOS THEORY X
Sunday, December 05, 2010 @ 11:35:18 PM
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swapnilgyani
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 1:41:02 AM
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Awsomeness that never quite arrived...
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Snaaaake
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 8:49:19 AM
Went to watch Spiderman 3 expecting full awesomeness only to be smack with a pie.
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Jawknee
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 3:20:03 PM
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Fane1024
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 3:32:38 PM
There are a lot of things right with Spiderman 2, but I find the ending so preposterous (dramatic, but preposterous) that I can't say it's the best. Kind of like Superman 1.
I didn't hate Spiderman 3 as much as some people, though the "emo" bit in the middle was painful. I guess the fact that I never paid to see it helped (I got it in the PS3 bundle).
Last edited by Fane1024 on 12/6/2010 3:35:27 PM
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Godslim
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 4:58:02 AM
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maxpontiac
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 7:49:20 AM
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As in what if SE didn't buy into Microsoft?
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Orvisman
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 8:37:42 AM
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Snaaaake
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 8:54:50 AM
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I thought it's "The Best" in Japan??
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Fane1024
Monday, December 06, 2010 @ 3:36:57 PM
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CH1N00K
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Sunday, December 05, 2010 @ 10:29:36 PM
I bought it the first week it was out, but for some reason I just can't bring myself to finish it...I suppose I'll go back and take another swing at it someday....but not today...