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The gaming community is abuzz with excitement as fans eagerly anticipate the upcoming release of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, a highly anticipated remake of the beloved classic. Now that the release date has been unveiled, the journey to Rebirth’s launch can feel both tantalizing and arduous.
Total worldwide shipments and digital sales for Final Fantasy VII Remake surpassed seven million units, Square Enix announced.
What's interesting about this is, it's across 3 platforms in 3.5 years. FF16 sells almost half of this in a matter of days, but a certain group are convinced it's a failure.
Both games have clearly sold well, but they can't carry the weight of every bad decision a publisher makes.
Pretty sure FF7 Remake did 3.5 mill on ONLY PS4 in 3 days, which was faster than FF16’s sales to the 3 mill mark.
FF16 didn’t sell enough to recoup the dev cost and sales have slowed, which consequently made Square Enix pay out of their own pocket the dev cost so that future sales of FF16 would be at a profit. This dropped net profits by 65% and operating income plummeted by 78%. I don’t know what fantasy world where you’d call that a success.
I don’t get why we’re at this FF16 vs FF7 Remake point. Like the game you like, but let’s not kid ourselves on things.
you also need to consider that the biggest ff7 haters are final fantasy fans themselves. alot of ppl just didnt like it cause it wasnt the 100% faithful remaster they wanted it to be.
FF16 sold well enough to make a profit. It just didn’t make enough of a profit to cover the losses incurred by other titles.
“Analysts told the publication that Final Fantasy 16 failed to make up for the poor performance of previous Square Enix flops, such as Marvel’s Avengers and Forspoken, and mobile games that were shut down soon after launch.”
https://www.ign.com/article...
They were looking for the ‘high end’ of profits but they were a lot lower than they hoped.
“During a post-earnings call to analysts, Kiryu said the high end of the company's expectations were not met and the slow adoption of the PlayStation 5 was a limiting factor”
https://www.eurogamer.net/f...
That seems awfully low given how hyped the game was and how well it was reviewed
Not to mention, it says shipments not physical copies sold, so the amount that people own is probably only at six million
This might just be me over-thinking/expecting what the game should have sold though, and this could be great for all I know
It’s been 20+ years since the time that gave us Mulholland Drive and “Bootylicious”, meaning this look at the best games of 2001 is going to make some of you feel very old very quickly.
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