How many units of Final Fantasy XIII sold in Japan for the first 24 hours?

The number is in for the first 24 hours unit sold of Final Fantasy XIII. we know that Square Enix shipped almost 2 million units for FFXIII launch. While other title have to be happy if they can sell over 100k units for the first week, not so with FFXIII. According to Square Enix, the number is "exceeding one million", and that is not include the Lightning Edition bundle.
Given install base of PS3 in Japan is approximately 4 millions units, almost 25% of the installed base are getting FFXIII copies. 
Pretty impressive, I never though the numbers will exceed one million in one day.

Source: Kotaku
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Final Fantasy XIII shipped and launched in Japan

After so many years in development, Final Fantasy XIII finally launch in Japan today. Square Enix anticipated the demand by shipping astonishing nearly 2 millions copies. Considering typically in Japan, 100.000 units sold for the first week is already a good performance, 2 millions copies is a very confident number.

And if you asking, it might be for those importers as well, the answer is no. The Japanese version will not have English dub nor English subtitle (retailer confirmed it for me, and she seems very confident in answering). So this version is definitely for Japan only market except for those abroad who are fluent in Japanese.

Importers! Sorry for your dissapointment. Let's wait for another three months. Hey that includes me!

 

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Final Fantasy XIII audio and video will be uncompressed on PS3, not so with Xbox 360

In Famitsu interview, Square Enix said that Final Fantasy XIII audio and video remain uncompressed for PS3 version thanks to larger Blu-ray capacity. Not so for Xbox 360, despite having multiple discs, the Xbox 360 version will be compressed.
However, Square confident that casual gamer will not even notice the difference between the two versions.
This quite a relief for PS3 owners. At first, when Final Fantasy XIII announced for Xbox 360, part of the deal is that Microsoft won't allow the game to be different from PS3, therefore some speculation said that the PS3 version will be dumbed down to match the Xbox 360 version. With this statement, it won't be the case after all. Wonder whether Microsoft will be furious with this statement as this will discredit the Xbox 360 FFXIII version.
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