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Despite some negative commentary surrounding the game’s performance following an announcement of 3 million copies sold, Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XVI (FF16) – the latest instalment in its RPG franchise – actually performed robustly in its launch month; both in Japan and further afield.

Ampere Games – Analytics data shows that the PlayStation 5 (PS5) exclusive title was the sixth biggest title by monthly active users globally on the console in June, and around 13% of PS5 players played the game. The top markets by active users were the USA, which represented a third of players, Japan, which represented a quarter, the UK, Germany, Canada, and South Korea. Interestingly, average play time per player was at its highest in Japan, at more than 22 hours in the month, which is almost four hours longer than the average player in the US. This suggests that players in Japan are more engaged, possibly because there are fewer highly popular PS5 titles in the market compared to the USA, where games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) regularly duke it out for player attention.

For three days following the launch, FF16 was the second-highest PS5 title by daily active users globally, just falling short of FIFA 23, but surpassing the likes of Fortnite and Call of Duty. By the end of June it had dropped to fourth place, but now seems to have stabilised, and is maintaining a solid lead ahead of big live service titles like Diablo IV, NBA 2K 23, and GTA V. The most popular other title among FF16 players is Diablo IV: almost a quarter of FF16 players in the USA also played Diablo IV on PS5 in June, perhaps as a result of FF16’s notable shift away from Japanese RPG (JRPG), and towards the Action RPG (ARPG) genre.

There has been much commentary around FF16’s performance in its domestic market, Japan, but the perceived lack of sales are more due to the relative popularity of the PS5 versus the Nintendo Switch there. Switch titles dominate the charts in Japan, but when focusing solely on PS5 activity, FF16 was very successful in June. It attracted twice as many daily players as the next most popular PS5 game, Apex Legends, and it was far and away the most-played game for that time period.

*Note: The June FF16 data includes user activity for the demo, which preceded the full launch of the game.

Final Fantasy XVI by far the most-played PS5 title in Japan in launch month

For three days following the launch, FF16 was the second-highest PS5 title by daily active users globally, surpassing the likes of Fortnite and Call of Duty.

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[cireza]

The most played Final Fantasy title that has XVI in its name !

 

[Punished Miku]

If it wasn't even the most played title on PS5 in Japan that would be pretty sad.

 

[Woopah]

Well yeah, it was by far the highest selling PS5 game in Japan.

Interesting that on average it was played most in Japan but that does make sense.

 

[Games of Today]

Any better performance in 60fps?

 

[Tazzu]

Can't wait for the IB morons to come and shit this thread up.

 

[Punished Miku]

Whats an IB?

Irritable bowels. They shit up everything.

 

[ssringo]

I like how nearly 1/4 of the pie chart is "everyone else".

 

[adamsapple]

Any better performance in 60fps?

No, the only thing they've patched so far is adding a motion blur toggle and a few alternate control schemes. Performance mode is still unstable in most places. Quality is still the best way to play.

 

[Games of Today]

No, the only thing they've patched so far is adding a motion blur toggle and a few alternate control schemes. Performance mode is still unstable in most places. Quality is still the best way to play.

Thanks, I can handle 30fps because I go back and play RDR2 for longer stints from time to time but I just don't know if I want to buy a new game to play at 30fps. FF never really interests me but the medieval and mega boss fight aspects look pretty sick to me. I'll play this and Jedi Survivor eventually when the performance modes are stable and look better (hopefully).

 

[Three]

Lol so it’s not even true!

You're so salty that you can’t even figure out what's been said for it to be not true. This was about FF16 engagement numbers and it being the most played game in launch month there. They even compared it to free to play games like Apex Legends. Nobody said anything that wasn't true. Nobody talked about it being the best selling game or anything (even if that is also true for PS5 in Japan) . Bizarre that it's the same people who would then turn around and talk about number of players in other games that are up in arms about this particular engagement data.

 

[Robb]

Note: The June FF16 data includes user activity for the demo, which preceded the full launch of the game.

What a pointless metric. Why not just separate them, then people can combine them if they’d want to.

 

[DenchDeckard]

User activity for the demo?

Whaaaat?