Animal crossing more than 6 millions , just in Japan....😱 Over 8 million units at the end of September with total shipment+digital sales.
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It's like the most obvious result of a bad strategic alignment Square Enix made with the PlayStation for their "AAA" games
PlayStation 5 is irrelevant in Japan and likely active PC user-base now is bigger than the active PS5 audience in the country. Square not having a day-one port to PC is probably the thing that hurt them most, followed by the lack of PlayStation 4 version. Despite it's age PS4 is still the saving grace for some pubs that continue to support if they had gone full PS5 exclusive they would have been in hot water.
Still it's good that Final Fantasy franchise is above niche status, most PlayStation 5 exclusive titles are never going to reach 200K physical in Japan. Currently outside of bundled games like GT7 / SM2 which cost $2 on the second hand market only Hogwarts Legacy will probably surpass 200K. I've said it for a long time but a lot of franchises will become irrelevant in Japan because of their publishers being allergic to what is actually popular in their home nation. Final Fantasy is a cautionary tale and hope Capcom is taking notes for Monster Hunter...