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Kingdom Hearts Series Ships 10 Mil Globally

etoychestetoychest Registered User regular
edited February 2007 in Games and Technology
Yay numbers! (it's slow here at the newsdesk this morning)

Square Enix and Buena Vista Games have announced that the Kingdom Hearts franchise has shipped more than 5.4 million units in North America, as well as over 10 million units globally since the franchise debuted in 2002.

The breakdown follows:

Kingdom Hearts
(North American Release: September 1st, 2002, PlayStation 2)
Japan: Over 1.5 million
North America: Over 3.0 million
Europe & PAL: Over 1.1 million

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
(December 7th, 2004, Game Boy Advance)
Japan: Over 0.4 million
North America: Over 0.9 million
Europe & PAL: Over 0.2 million


Kingdom Hearts II
(March 28th, 2006, PlayStation 2)
Japan: Over 1.1 million
North America: Over 1.7 million
Europe & PAL: Over 0.7 million

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Just goes to show how to make a good game based of movie licence(s)

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  • Recoil42Recoil42 Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Pata wrote:
    Just goes to show the absolutely ridiculous amount of squeenix fans there are out there.

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Kingdom Hearts sells far more because of the Disney part then the SquareEnix part.

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  • AiranAiran Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Any sales numbers? I usually take 'shipped' as "hey guys our CD manufacturing speeds are super quick!". Yes I know there's supply and demand and all that but still.

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  • etoychestetoychest Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    nada, which is one reason I'm MAYBE going to tack it onto my daily newsbrief at Gamasutra, but am not making a big deal about it. However, i guess at least with the earlier 2 games, maybe we can assume those reflect sell through numbers. *shrug*

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  • robosagogorobosagogo Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    How do those numbers compare to Final Fantasy 10 and Dragon Warrior 8?

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    robosagogo wrote:
    How do those numbers compare to Final Fantasy 10 and Dragon Warrior 8?

    according to vgcharts.org:

    FF XII
    US: 1,026,000
    Japan: 2,368,250

    Dragon Quest 8
    US: 591,500
    Japan: 3,609,000

    For some reason the US numbers for these games is only through November, December isn't available.

    Anyway, Kingdom Hearts is about as big as Final Fantasy in the US, but a bit smaller (though still a big hit) in Japan.

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