Blizzard can go screw itself, they don't deserve support. (Diablo 4 was one of my most anticipated games as well, a few years back.) I'm putting my money toward FFXVI, a game that actually has a team that cares about the franchise. It may have a slight affect on sales for FFXVI. But they're very different games. Despite sharing the "RPG" genre.
I don't disagree that Blizzard has been super shitty in recent years. But I don't think that will stop D4 from being a major launch. I mean for all the controversy around Diablo Immortal that game was still huge at release.
Nope don't think it will hurt it much. I actually think it will sell quite a few more copies than Diablo. It's only releasing on the ps5 and I think it will comfortably outsell Diablo 4 and that is multiplatform.
@snookies I'm pretty sure the dev team cares a lot about the game, you can see it from their dev vlogs/blogs. It's the higherups that do everythin in their power to squeeze money out of it.
@tay I think you severely underestimate how large the diablo fanbase is. It already outsold everything before 3 times (4 if you count immortal in terms of revenue), no matter how poorly blizzard management is doing, diablo 4 will easily outsell ff16. ff 15 lifetime sales: 10mil diablo 3 sales as of august 2015: 30 mil
@michiel. For some reason I thought diablo 3 sold about 10 million. Yes the 30 million is very impressive. I highly doubt 4 will sell like that though. Xbox users largely do not not many games anymore because of gamepass. It obviously will do well on PC, but I'd bet far more people would choose FF16 over it on ps5. So I don't think its going to effect sales much at all. FF16 isn't releasing anytime soon on PC so it's not like it will suffer loss of games sales to diablo on PC either . I think the biggest sellers coming up for ps5 will be hogwarts, FF 16 and Spiderman 2.
I don’t think it will. Most people can afford to get 2 games in a month and if not they can choose to buy one or the other another time. It’s not like people can just get one title.
@tay I don't think they will be impacted much for either side, it's 2 completely different genres, however I do not get the argument that you will not lose pc sales cause of diablo. FF doesn't release on pc, so they won't get any sales from that group until it comes out on pc and mean while daiblo will be sold on all consoles and D4 also looks like a way less diving entry in the franchise compared to D3.
I think D4 will smash D3 numbers in terms of sales. It looks great, they seem to be listening to feedback from the community and making it more like D2. while im way more hyped for FF16 I just can't see it outselling D4 when being ps5 exclusive.
@michiel. No I meant that FF16 will not lose any sales due to diablo on PC, because its not releasing on PC anytime soon. they won't be competing for sales. The only platform it has to compete with diablo is ps5 and I am very confident it I'll easily outsell it on ps5.
Diablo has a currently unpopular company and (even though I have some curiosity to try it out), some people like me don't like isometric games too much. FF is the more popular franchise and it's on a high note after FF7 comeback.
I don't think it will affect sales of final fantasy much at all. There different rpgs. Some aren't even into Diablo. Me I've never played one. Not that i dont like them. I just haven't.
Far as final fantasy 16 I also don't think it could be the best in the series. That ship sailed long ago. I think the new ffs have had some split on the fan base by going full on hack n slash. Personally ill try it when it hits 20ish dollars but I won't be buying it day one or anything like that. Dq11 blew me away and that right now is my fav square Enix rpg for the time being.
that's just it, they're two different RPGs. Some will pick up one, some the other while some will pick up both & many will choose neither. Are there going to be some gamers who have to choose between the two? Certainly, but those same people are likely to, at some point, have bought both games.
At the end of the day both these games are going to sell incredibly well when looking at lifetime sales.
The team that is working on FF16 is compromised of absolute all-stars. The game is going to be amazing. There are veterans from some of the greatest FF and Square games at the helm, and the combat was designed from the guy who planned Marvel vs Capcom 2.
Diablo 3 sold 30 million units by 2015 and is one of the best selling games of all time. That's before it even launched on the Switch. Final Fantasy XV sold 10 million. Final Fantasy X sold just under 10 million. Final Fantasy VII Remake's last official sales were 5 million. So judging by history I'd say almost everyone on this page is overestimating FF and underestimating the absolute juggernaut that is Diablo. While the two series are very different they're both still fantasy RPGs and have a good amount of overlap.
FF16 was know to be summer 23 well before the 2022 VGAs where both were essential given release dates. Also these two games are different enough to coexist. I think this article is trying to create friction where there is none.
Nah... 70% of D4 Sales are going to be on PC, a Playstation exclusive doesn't need to Dodge Diablo. I mean, Diablo 4 is gonna be Huge, but most people gonna play It on PC, and not PS5.
Diablo 4 will need that 2 week head start to get their servers stable probably. When has blizzard ever had a smooth launch for an always online game? Hell, people might go buy FFXVI because they're too frustrated dealing with login queues on D4 lol.
I’ll get FF16 day 1 . Diablo I don’t know if I’m getting it at all. Blizzard is a greedy MT Season pass every year type of company and Diablo and its many clones haven’t evolved much . This one does look to have some new stuff but we will see. Not bad games but not as fun as they once were . More than anything I don’t like Blizzard as a company and don’t want to support companies that do stuff like Diablo Immortal .
As a fan of both series, it will negatively impact sales at least for me. I know right off the bat Diablo IV will be a 2-3 month obsession before I feel freshness fall off. For me, I will NOT be buying FFXVI at launch because of this and since it will be closer to the holiday season by then (and potentially Starfield releasing), I have no reason to jump on it until Black Friday sales.
So yes, at least one sale will be affected and I doubt I'm alone. They are most definitely making a huge mistake in the West, at least.
Side-note: this is a decision based on the fact when FFXV came out, I bought it at launch despite already being heavily invested in another RPG at the time. The end result was I never ended up playing it because it got shelved for too long (this from a guy who put 2 years into FFXIV). Waste of money, bad decisions on my part. Learned from that mistake.
It will definitely have no effect on me because I like both so I'll have no problem acquiring both copies on day one when they're released. Though at first, I'll be playing more of FFXVI than Diablo 4. There are Wprg fans & Jrpg fans so both games will sell well.
Final Fantasy can sell on brand name alone, it always sells like hot cakes, Diablo's release won't even figure into FF sales figures, that's some clown reporting right there.
implying that Diablo 4 will affect a new Final Fantasy game sales that also is PS5 exclusive and could be the best of the series? hmmm
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Yeah, I don't see Diablo having some negative sales effect on a mainline Final Fantasy game. But a site has to get those clicks/views after all so....
Hmm I wonder. i know I'll get ff16 for sure as I'm not a diablo fan. But Diablo is indeed a very popular rpg franchise.
It still blows my mind that people like Diablo at all at this point. Diablo Immortal did make tons of money though despite all the bad press.
After FF15 I think I will grab FF16 when it kicks around the $20 like I did with KH3.