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Final Fantasy VII Remake shipped + digitally sold over 5 million copies; Highest selling digital title for Square Enix on PS (2 Million)
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Good point. Even if it's not out at launch it will definitely get a new push right before Part 2 is released in 2-3 years time.
FFXV
Nov 16' - 5M day one
Jan 17' - 6M ~45 days later
Final Fantasy XV total shipments top six million
Total shipments and digital sales for Final Fantasy XV have exceeded six million units, Square Enix announced.
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FFXV had deals (50% off) in december 2016 and for example, FFVII has greatly outsold FFXV in Japan at full price. FFXV had to sell at bargain prices to empty its first shipment.
You can snag Final Fantasy XV Day One Edition for $35/£35 today
Choco-bro! This Final Fantasy XV price drop is outrageous
Let's see how well FFVII sells for the rest of the year but FFXV shipped huge numbers.
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The tensai memes in final fantasy threads always fucking kill me lmao. Also this is thoroughly well deserved, my second favourite game this year.
Maybe they will when FFXVI is announced. They might use that moment to talk about FFVII Remake on PS5.
Very impressive result. They will sell a lot more with the part 2 (if it will be as great as this) and then even more with all the collections.
The game will sell gangbusters when it will be released for Xbox/PC/PS5. Also it will see another wave after PT2 gets released.
The game will easily surpass XV.
I think some of you definetly need context:
OG FF7: 10 Million ( PS1 Alone in 10 Years )
FF15: 8.9 Million ( All Platforms in 3 Years )
FFX: 8.5 Million (PS2 Alone in 12 Years)
FF8: 8.15 ( PS1 One Alone in 10 Years)
FF12: 6 Million (PS2 Alone in 3 Years)
FF9: 5,5 Million (PS1 Alone in 16 Years )
The game will easily surpass XV.
I think some of you definetly need context:
OG FF7: 10 Million ( PS1 Alone in 10 Years )
FF15: 8.9 Million ( All Platforms in 3 Years )
FFX: 8.5 Million (PS2 Alone in 12 Years)
FF8: 8.15 ( PS1 One Alone in 10 Years)
FF12: 6 Million (PS2 Alone in 3 Years)
FF9: 5,5 Million (PS1 Alone in 16 Years )
deserved. It's a goty. Physical copies were very scarce and you could sell the game for same price or higher after you beat the game for a long time.
Masterpiece.
Masterpiece.
Lol...
I also love it when people go "SE has weird expectations" when the last example of this was the Tomb Raider reboot before Wada left. They even changed their stance after that.
Official Tomb Raider Blog — A Special Note from Head of Studios Darrell...
A Special Note from Head of Studios Darrell...
tombraider.tumblr.com
(It is apparent an official tumblr page, when tumblr was still a thing).
Post Wada SE is no longer the same.
It's almost like there wasn't a pandemic when those two came out.
Edit: nvm. My point was most sales were probably digital but I missed that op covered that. I'm tired af.
I'll be honest, I was kind of expecting more. I know it's just one platform compared to two on launch for KH3 and FFXV but I was expecting 5m to be have been reached earlier given the hype surrounding it.
Still good numbers of course and easily a success for SE, I just thought it would have done even better by now.
Still good numbers of course and easily a success for SE, I just thought it would have done even better by now.
That's nice for SquareEnix, they'll make money with other episodes and that's fine but I'm sure the complete game would have sell bigger imo
Isn't the pandemic being shown to have been good for game sales (look at Animal Crossing for example)?
These are solid sales, and I'm glad the game turned out well! I'm still not a huge fan of the episodic release schedule, but hopefully parts 2 and 3 actually happen.
This is not really good.
This is the most requested remake of all time, of one of the most beloved games of all time, and it needed 4 months to sell what a new entry sold in 3 days?
It's not because of COVID. Other games have been breaking records.
It's not because of exclusivity. It's not like XV sold that much on XBOX to justify the huge difference.
I think they failed to communicate the whole "episodic" nature of it. I know that some people think it's a Walking Dead kind of deal, but I doubt they would make a significant number given that it's named "Final Fantasy VII Remake" and all.
I'm sure it will hit much higher numbers eventually once it's on PS5 & PC... but.. yeah.
5M isn't bad for now... but SE are idiots if they weren't expecting more from the remake of Final Fantasy VII.
This is the most requested remake of all time, of one of the most beloved games of all time, and it needed 4 months to sell what a new entry sold in 3 days?
It's not because of COVID. Other games have been breaking records.
It's not because of exclusivity. It's not like XV sold that much on XBOX to justify the huge difference.
I think they failed to communicate the whole "episodic" nature of it. I know that some people think it's a Walking Dead kind of deal, but I doubt they would make a significant number given that it's named "Final Fantasy VII Remake" and all.
I'm sure it will hit much higher numbers eventually once it's on PS5 & PC... but.. yeah.
5M isn't bad for now... but SE are idiots if they weren't expecting more from the remake of Final Fantasy VII.
True. But the pandemic did help some other games. I guess I expected a bit more since it is a remake of the FF7 - The JRPG. It's cool though since they are happy
lol - this is much worse than i remember.
The Massacre in March: Animal Crossing vs Final Fantasy 7 Remake
The face of chaos. The harbingers of all doom. So come March there's going to be a bunch of games coming out. Doom Eternal's coming, that game's gonna be real cool. Bloodlines 2 is coming, I think? That's wild. Wild that that's being made. Half-Life Alyx is tentatively slated for that month...www.resetera.com
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For some stuff era just cant be objective xD
I don't think the pandemic had much effect in the number of sales, as seen in SE fiscal report, where it did have a big impact is in platforms sales, physical sales are way down but digital way up.
FF15 didn't sell 5 million in three days. It shipped that much. It was heavily discounted during the holidays so that initial shipment didn't sell all the way through quickly. FF7R sold 5 million in this much time at a higher price point, and a larger digital split so they made more.
Yeah if it one thing FFVIIR hold it price much long than FFXV and also had a much higher DD share.
So they most likely made much more money of off FFVIIR if we compare time frames.
To be fair, we don't know the actual sold number for FF7R either. We know it sold a minimum of 2m but the overall numbers are also shipped so we don't know the physical sell through.
It's most requested for jRPG fans... We are in 2020, Final Fantasy as an IP isn't as strong as it was in early-2020, and jRPG aren't also as big sellers. Gaming has changed a lot.
Sorry but this isn't really true.
VIIR went on multiple sales starting with May, a month after its release. The most recent one is running rn with 34% off.
Meanwhile, in a month since its release, FFXV shipped an extra million for a total of 6M.
FF15 was heavily discounted at this point. FF7 Remake is still full priced. I can't see them having a lot of stock. I'm pretty sure sold-through number is close to 5 Million.
New entry ship in 3 days not sold and at a much higher ASP since FFXV was discounted fast .
Also even if this a beloved game it's still FF even after years of being on and on many system FFVII only around 14 million .
That is just Ebay with Limited quantities and only 10 dollars off .
I dont think XV got discounted much faster than 7R. Maybe on Xbox in markets where the Xbox isnt relevant - but even then i cant see there being a big difference.
Digital being off is no wonder since the margin is a lot higher. Try to get a physical copy at 50 bucks.
Oh for sure, I'm certain SE has made more money from the Remake compared to XV when comparing their first 5m units thanks to the digital split alone. Only point I was making was that you emphasised shipped for XV and then said sold for Remake
That first page. 22M vs 5MThe Massacre in March: Animal Crossing vs Final Fantasy 7 Remake
The face of chaos. The harbingers of all doom. So come March there's going to be a bunch of games coming out. Doom Eternal's coming, that game's gonna be real cool. Bloodlines 2 is coming, I think? That's wild. Wild that that's being made. Half-Life Alyx is tentatively slated for that month...
Your early morning read.
While these sales are really nice and put to shame yesterday's meme thread, seeing these numbers I can't help but recall an even more meme-y thread. Yeah, this one:
The Massacre in March: Animal Crossing vs Final Fantasy 7 Remake
The face of chaos. The harbingers of all doom. So come March there's going to be a bunch of games coming out. Doom Eternal's coming, that game's gonna be real cool. Bloodlines 2 is coming, I think? That's wild. Wild that that's being made. Half-Life Alyx is tentatively slated for that month...
Your early morning read.
Which annoys me because I love both of them almost equally lol. Can't we just be happy that FF is doing fine people!?
The Massacre in March: Animal Crossing vs Final Fantasy 7 Remake
The face of chaos. The harbingers of all doom. So come March there's going to be a bunch of games coming out. Doom Eternal's coming, that game's gonna be real cool. Bloodlines 2 is coming, I think? That's wild. Wild that that's being made. Half-Life Alyx is tentatively slated for that month...
Your early morning read.
Wasn't Mario Kart the best selling Switch like at 20mil? Animal Crossing is crazy, might be the best selling first party game this gen.
Edit: it still is at 26mil but I wouldn't be surprised if AC passes it at this point.
XV is good to use as a comparison point for performance of Remake but yeah, they've both done good numbers and SE should be feeling happy with their respective performances.