Square Enix has announced that its latest blockbuster RPG, Final Fantasy XIII, has shipped over 5 million units worldwide, with the North American and European releases of the game accounting for over half of the total this week.

The publisher is calling the international release of Final Fantasy XIII a success, after shipping over 3 million units to North American and European territories in time for the launch this week on March 9th.

The game’s release last year in Japan on December 17th makes up the rest of that 5 million units shipped amount, although it should be noted that these figures represent the total number of copies delivered (shipped) to stores around the world, rather than the number of units sold direct to consumers.

Those numbers will no doubt be waved around in our collective faces in the coming days, once Square Enix collates the sales figures and approves them for public consumption.

The publisher was also keen to announce that, thanks to Final Fantasy XIII, the Final Fantasy franchise as a whole has now sold a combined 96 million units worldwide.

In case you hadn’t heard, Final Fantasy XIII released around the world this week on Xbox 360 and PS3.

You can find out all about this title, as well as compare the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions with a comparison video, via El33tonline’s previous coverage of Final Fantasy XIII, for all kinds of screenshots, videos and information you didn’t know you needed, but certainly do.

Source: Andriasang