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Final Fantasy XV Sales Top 8.1 Million Worldwide
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The new DLC, thankfully, will pretty much come out back-to-back according to the content roadmap starting in late Winter 2019 with the last releasing mid Spring 2019.
Now that we know of the presence of Final Fantasy XV at TGS 2018 (with trailer confirmed), I expect to see the first trailer of Episode Ardyn.
I have an incredible Hype :)
I am sure that FF XVI will also be very beautiful in its own way.
And I also hope that the theme of the journey of Final Fantasy XV, that gave me more than 300 hours of pure fun and excitement, will be taken as a starting point for FF XVI.
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Tired with the usual unfinished game moniker,at this point it's became a meme. FF XV at launch was barebones, but finished. That was the game they managed to make in just 3 years of development. It's a miracle the game is as good as it is with such short development time and technical issues because of the Luminous engine Square Enix forced upon them.
I don't have recollection of other huge AAA open world games with 3 years development, they are all around 4-6 years.
The Witcher 3 was 4 years in development
Horizon Zero Dawn had almost 6 years
Breath of the Wild had 4 years of development
All the dlcs that came later were not cut from the original game, instead they were added because they had more time to give proper details about the events of the game because they realized people felt main story and lore was a bit rushed and superficial. The new ones that should be released next year are the usual DLCs you could see in every game, they are not important to understand the main plot of FFXV but give even more details about some events and characters.
To make a comparison the new Ardyn episode is a bit like the Braska, Auron, Jecht pilgrimage that was just briefly touched on by the original game but never really explained. While Episode Ardyn seems to explore his conflict with the Astrals.
That doesn't mean they are still finishing the game, they are just giving it more content to keep people playing it. And it seems it worked considering that many still buy them as separate dlcs and as Royal edition. They wouldn't had the idea to create even more DLC if there was no interest in them, there is interest that shows that the base game was mostly loved and people want to know more.
Say what you want but Tabata always showed respect for Final Fantasy (he wasn't the one that decided to go open world, that was already decided when it was Versus XIII) and these new DLCs mean he wants to make the game as good as possible, as detailed as possible.
I'm excited for his new project without the burden of the Final Fantasy name.
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Another 1-1,5M with 70-90% discounts.... I don't think that's what Tabata hoped for. Full priced sales are low.
Great to hear. Even with its faults, I enjoyed FFXV immensely. It's hard to say it's the best FF since VIII but it's definitely the one I had the most fun with
Hilarious the 'one platform argument' is when those one platforms were PS1 and PS2
All FF's were discounted post release too. This is not a nintendo game series guys
All FF's were discounted post release too. This is not a nintendo game series guys
Exactly. A large chunk of FFVII sales were definitely from the greatest hits version. Wouldn't be surprised if they were the majority
Final Fantasy XV sold 5/6 million at DayOne.
And I would like to mention that this is already a very good result, which has also completely covered all production costs in one day.
(At full price)
Moreover, if we talk about the other 3 million and more that he sold in the following years, he demonstrates the fact that the game of Final Fantasy XV in addition to being very remunemative, is a success, a masterpiece, and one of the best games of this generation .
(as well as one of the best Final Fantasy ever made, and one of the best sellers)
(moreover, it does not make much sense to distinguish between full-price sales and discount sales, because however you put it, Final Fantasy XV has sold to DayOne [and that is at full price] more than 5/6 million of copies, this is in fact objectively an excellent result)
So it is, and remains, a great result :)
PS: Then, if we count the sales of the Pocket Edition, the game of Final Fantasy XV has already sold 11 / 12 million copies in the world :)
They got 200-300K at full price before the first Steam sale in April or so. Don't forget it was a late port and now almost two years old. No way they expected 2M at full price - if you believe that you probably also believed that they needed 10M to break even on FFXV, lol. Also, why "70-90% off"? It's been 50% in the recent sales and at most it will be 60% off over the next years (like TW3 is all the time), especially if next year's eventual Complete Edition including the upcoming 2019 DLCs is gonna be the default version on sale increasing the value.
Most PC games sell the most long-term through sales. You think many millions of TW3's PC sales weren't at discounts either? It's regularly ranging between $40 and $20 every few weeks for years now (got it for $20 myself in 2016).
I agree with your post, but regarding the underlined part I just wanted to note that it actually was Tabata's decision to go open-world. He was really adamant about it while the team opposed his idea because they didn't think they could do it technically and content-wise, so he had to convince and motivate them to try it regardless:
Those aren't actual sales numbers. The most recent number was from the other day with 14 million registered players which includes free trial versions too. We don't have sales numbers (afaik) or actual subscription numbers which are a more relevant statistic for MMOs. But yeah, it's definitely very successfull and making SE good money for years now.
I also love how salty some people are about this game's success.
So true some people are doing backflips to down play the sales of this game is honestly pathetic. Tons of games I don't like sell well but I don't go into every thread to dog them.
Yeah. PS2 ended up selling over 150 million units, and even the PS1 also sold more than 100 million. It's not like those games were on consoles that sold poorly.
