Jimmyfenix
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Square Enix: FFXV shipments + digital sales top 5 million worldwide
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Killer Queen
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Diprosalic
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No way this is sold through.
Its Shipped numbers. Doesn't necessarily mean 5 million people are playing.
ethomaz
Banned
That is not how it works.
If the copy didn't sell they have to fire sale and get less money or in the worst case get the copies back and returning the money (that is called negative shipment).
You only really get the money if the copy reaches the co consumers (that is what is sold).
ethomaz
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That is low for a launch game in Japan if true of course.
You didn't get the reference.
APZonerunner
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It was bound to be because it was a simultaneous worldwide launch, whereas every other entry had its Western launch staggered. FF13 had three months between, and that still made it the fastest ever at the time after the Western version launched.
Or basically: Yes, FF15 in all regions (including an all-new, expanding market in China) outsold FF13 in one region in their first weeks. That much is obvious.
The real question is: if you added together Japan Week 1 and ROW week 1 for FF13 - just week one and nothing else and put that against FF15 week one worldwide - which would win? We'll probably never know that, but aye. 15 was always gonna break this record unless something went drastically wrong.
I really hope it sells a lot of these 5 million, though! This is a really promising start.
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Depends on what country it is sold in. In Japan for example retailers have all the liability for the shipped games, So it really is money in the bank as theirs no price protection for them
Considering how many games were overshipped in the last months (it's crazy how cheap Dishonored 2, Mafia 3 and the likes have become in my town already...), I'm not going to celebrate this number before we have solid sale-through numbers.
I do hope this will be successful, after a rocky start I started to really enjoy my time with it. Likely my GotY even.
I do hope this will be successful, after a rocky start I started to really enjoy my time with it. Likely my GotY even.
FantasticMrSnake
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How much did the game cost?
Are they doing profit?
It sounds like a good number, specially for jrpg =D, still waiting for my copy to arrive =(.
Square-enix infiltrators ?
Are they doing profit?
It sounds like a good number, specially for jrpg =D, still waiting for my copy to arrive =(.
Square-enix infiltrators ?
Jimmyfenix
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They have nothing better to do
Yeah, YSO predictions put the FW at 650-700k, it may have difficulties to reach the million there
ethomaz
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really? nice...never thought id see the day where a FF is GOTY contender....modern ff that is.
Why do some people feel the need to get defensive about criticism or dodgy PR tactics?
Solid Sora
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Why will we never know that? Isn't it calculable with the data available online? I'm very interested in knowing which game did better.
Not entirely, this is shipped to retailers + digital sales.
Acquiescence
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So I guess that so-called decline in popularity for the franchise was a myth then? People have been saying for years now that Final Fantasy isn't the name it once was, but if XV can pull in impressive numbers like this then I'd say it's still an IP that's very much flourishing.
Of course, Remake will blow XV out of the water.
Of course, Remake will blow XV out of the water.
the_batman
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how could they know that in two days
LordOfLore
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The game had a skeleton crew before 2011/12. Full development was only 4 years.
Jimmyfenix
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DarkLordMalik
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Love all the mental gymnastics in this thread that try to downplay this success.
Very happy to hear about it personally
Very happy to hear about it personally
Let's wait to have real numbers before stating a decline or not, shall we ? For what we know right now, it's a huge decline in Japan.
I think there are a subset of people that got really emotionally invested in the failure of this game since it changed from Versus XIII to XV. Stella 'n stuff.
I'd imagine the repeated swell of good news around the game must be frustrating to them.
Solid Sora
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It's worth noting that the digital sales is included in this number. Recent AAA games had average of 30% of their sales as digital, so expect a large percentage of the 5 millions to be actual digital sales.
Unknown One
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I blame the piece of shit called FF13 and the sequels. It was a dark time.
They basically did the same for FFXIII when it was released worldwide
The problem was they flooded the market and barely shipped anymore after the first batch
Hasn't Japan has a huge decline in home console sales in general, though?
KillerMan91
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How is this dodgy PR? Most of the time when companies announce game sales it's shipped+digital.
JuanLatino
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Yes. Especially in the media create Thread, people were and are joking for a while now how this will bomb and how funny it is loooooool! Looool a game is bombing so funny Wuhu
JRPG Games are dying, yeah lets party !
WuhuJRPG Games are dying, yeah lets party !
What data do we have for that? I saw someone say first day had a 48% sell-through, any other data points?
So saying fastest selling game in franchise is dodgy? That happen to almost like every other million seller game not just FF. I would say nitpicking hater here.
PS4 sales are mostly similar to the PS3 ones though, at this point.
YSO predictions, which are not 100% accurate, were for about 650-700k for the first week. It's a huge decline from FFXIII.
Jimmyfenix
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It only matters with Final Fantasy apperently. You could make the case for pokemon sales declining in Japan but more people are emotionally invested with ff