Final Fantasy XIII fastest selling title yet in series

Square Enix's first fully-fledged Final Fantasy offering for the PS3 and Xbox 360 finally launched outside of Japan to no small amount of hype, but it appears the fanfare was definitely worth it.  According to publisher, Final Fantasy XIII races down corridors to achieve mastery as the fastest selling title yet in the long-running JRPG series.

The publisher previously confirmed it had shipped well over 5 million copies of the game across all launch territories, with over 3 million prepared for the North American and European launches alone.  Sales meanwhile look to be coming together nicely, certainly in the United Kingdom.  Chart-Track reports that FFXIII shot straight to the top of the region's software sales charts for the week ending March 13th; sales for the PS3 version of FFXIII comprised around 54 percent of the title's total sales thus far.  It also snatches the title of fastest selling title in the UK thus far into 2010 from EA's Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which set the record just one week before.

FFXIII producer Yoshinori Kitase last week expressed strong interest in making a direct sequel for the game, with the hopes of further fleshing out the world now that the development team has more or less polished the various gameplay systems.  Kitase noted it would all depend on the title's international reception. Judging from the look of things now, perhaps the chances have become a whole lot stronger.