The real question of the thread is what people see as the upper bounds of these two franchises, and if these games will hit those points for both
Animal Crossing is one of Nintendo's biggest franchises, and it's on a growth trajectory; it's very quiet about that, but that's also unavoidable and true. The series saw massive growth on handhelds compared to the console iterations, and New Leaf is one of the very few 3DS games to outsell its DS equivalent. If New Horizons receives a Switch Boost (tm) comparable to 3D Mario, it could push north of 15 million units; if it receives a Switch Boost (tm) comparable to 3D Zelda or Smash, it could end up closer to 20 million. But then, it might not receive a boost at all; it's hard to guess.
Final Fantasy 7's first part is harder to get a ballpark for. The PS1 version was the best-selling single SKU in franchise history, and the tails on Square Enix games are often hard to measure. The original FF7 is a bit of an odd duck in that it's come to over forty-five thousand different platforms, and after all those platforms and 22 years on the market it's sold slightly less than New Leaf has. But is this fact representative of the ultimate sales potential of its remake ('s first part)? Could FF7R break the mold for the series? If so, what is the upper boundary of what we expect it to sell?
I haven't mentioned if I mean FF7R on one platform or many because I'm more curious about the decision-making processes that inform these conclusion. It seems that a lot of people in here expect FF7R to outsell the original, which is pretty interesting: in video game remakes, that's exceedingly rare.
All by which I mean to say:
Does anyone have actual ballparks they expect these games to sell at? Does someone expect, for instance, that ACNH will sell 15 million copies while FF7R will sell 18 million? Granted any of these would be blind shots in the dark, but I'm curious
