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Chris Dring: Final Fantasy XVI UK boxed sales 74% lower than FFXV
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Very underwhelming unless its digital ratio is way, way higher than that of other recent single-player PlayStation games.
With fewer and freer options to trade in that’s where I’m headed also.
FFXV opened with 120k physical, digital is never going to make up the difference between the two.
Having in mind 2016 was nearly a decade ago and, since then, pandemics and all, really changed the habits (in this case accelerated, as digital was already "becoming the norm", anyways).
It was expected physical difference would be huge. XV was also multi from get go, if memory still serves me something.
It was expected physical difference would be huge. XV was also multi from get go, if memory still serves me something.
Doesn't need to be the same sales but it's probably a BIG part of it. 2016 was a completely different time for physical/digital split
FFVII Remake sold roughly 60k copies in April 2020 which was PS4 only at the time with a 108M PS4 install base. PS5 is at roughly 40M install base and sold 30k physical copies. I'm not sure if digital v physical is radically different for then vs now on PS. Seems approximately comparable.
Do we have physical-only numbers for other big-ish recently released games to compare XVI to?
Idk, its just the older I started to get Ive prioritized less about collections and more about "experiences". As long as I played something and enjoyed it, I dont typically need to own a physical copy, just happy I had the time with it. LoU2, GoW2, ToTK, and FFXVI all purchased digitally now, crazy.
Sony's sales data suggests PS5 users are way more digital favored than the previous generation. Consumer habits are shifting towards digital more quickly than before which is why we're seeing some major releases skip the physical copy route altogether now.
I guess people really don't care about the prices any more if the hype is big enough. £70 for digital when there is so often a cheaper physical alternative for new releases these days is hard for me to understand. I feel like it's less of a common thing for physical to be cheaper than digital on release day in the US (tell me if I'm wrong) but it has always been that way in the UK.
Maybe having it exclusive to a new console which still lacks a large variety of killer apps wasn't the brightest idea.
Yeah digital sales would play a huge role epsecially on currnet gen consoles so physicals would be lower. Only Switch has relatively high physical sales but even then i think digital is still higher.
The demo got like at least a million downloads too, so I wouldn't really view this as a flop or indicative that the game failed because it was an exclusive lol
having an Xbox version would have had minimal impact at all given that we've seen that Xbox games skew even more digital in sales than PS games do.
That's normal for UK charts at this point with the shift to digital. I even went digital for FF16 since my copy was going to be delayed.
It was downloaded over 1 million times, not 10.
It was downloaded over 1 million times, not 10.
Uh...?
Edit. Oh ok, 10 million is way too high for SP title.
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Wasn't this corrected and the actual phrase used was "millions" not 10 million?
I remember them making a tweet fairly quickly so they were happy with the initial sales