Released just last week, the latest entry in the increasingly erroneously named Final Fantasy series has reached franchise record-breaking 1.5 million copies shipped to retail outlets throughout North America, according to a press-release issued by RPG masters Square-Enix today. Impressive numbers indeed, though keep in mind this doesn't reflect the actual number sold, which judging by the stack they still have on hand at my local Gamestop is substantially less.

Still the demand for the title is quite high, despite the pseudo-realtime combat revamp the twelfth entry has undergone. Even the most vocal of detractors (that would be me) cannot seem to resist the siren song of a freshly pressed Final Fantasy game. The game has turned out to be kind of relaxing, really. Once you get everything setup correctly you almost don't even have to actually play it, leaving you completely free to write about video game shipping numbers. And here we are. Michael Fahey

Square-Enix Ships 1.5M Copies of FFXII [1UP.com]

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