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Square Enix: FFXV shipments + digital sales top 5 million worldwide
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JuanLatino
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the game was shipped 5m worldwide (including the Japanese sales) and sold over 1 Mio copies in NA over the first 5 days.
Irrc by April Ps3 800k - Xbox 360 500k
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/final-fantasy-xiii-sells-1-million-in-north-america/1100-6253902/
Acquiescence
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I had assumed it was shipped numbers and not sold to consumers. I'm sure most people here did. It still strikes me as a healthy amount of copies to get out there in the wild for a game that's not even a week old.
DriftingSpirit
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I'm interested in this as well.
It most definitely doesnt in terms of software. Those Nintendo sales updates every quarter are shipments. Ditto with most milestone press releases.
Good Guy Gone Bad
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The 5M in question is Sold to Retailers and Digital. If you're SE, you sold 5M copies. The title is still factually correct.
BossDarkseid
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Yep. I love XIV so FF hasn't been "dead" to me for a long time (XII is probably my favourite)...but regardless, I have a lot of emotions and memories wrapped up in the series so when I left Hammerhead in the Regalia and set the music to play and this and the Prelude kicked in I just smiled...So good.
I think I remember Schrier/Press Sneak Fuck remarking on how one of the XV trailers had a version of the Classic FF theme and how it just conjured up those feelings and nostalgia, but in the best way. Nostalgia is a heavy burden to bear but XV handles it well, I think. I feel having an array of classic tracks is going to have to become a trademark feature going forward.
SliceSabre
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SE breathing that sigh of relief.
And so am I. After FFXIV: ARR and FFXV the series has proven it still has a future even after the disaster that was FFXIII. FFXIV: ARR is fantastic and I cannot wait to pick up FFXV later this month.
And so am I. After FFXIV: ARR and FFXV the series has proven it still has a future even after the disaster that was FFXIII. FFXIV: ARR is fantastic and I cannot wait to pick up FFXV later this month.
ethomaz
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It is not...
SE sold-in 5m copies including digital.
That is correct.
Thread OP needs to be fixed like happens with every other game.
Shipped/sold-in is almost always clearly mentioned in the sales threads in the OP and also in the title usually.
But I understand that you like the confusion for whatever reason. So I give up on this discussion as it leads nowhere.
BossDarkseid
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I'm confused >_> Would we assume that "SE sold-in 5m copies" to not mean in all formats (inc digital)?
Maybe I'm being pedantic but i feel i'm missing the point.
ethomaz
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FFXV sold-in plus digital sales reached 5 million units.
The thread title needs to have accurate info and not spin... that is the point with every sales thread in GAF... give us accurate info about the sales of the games.
Dark Cloud
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So...it's the same old Square?
AnthonypUK
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Its a nice PR number, Looking forward to Mondays UK charts, and Japanese charts to see how its doing with consumers.
Not if they just sit on the shelves before being blown out in clearance.
josecitoxnyo
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I wonder if it's enough for them to start developing XVI ASAP.
I'm sure some work has begun for this. But not likely anything super actionable.
Stone Ocean
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And there were people actually believing for a second that this game would flop lul
Sun/Moon has sold through 7.2 million copies in roughly 1 week.
JuanLatino
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i would say they already started with that 1-2 years ago
Almost certainly. XV would have needed to be a massive bomba for them to not be working on XVI
Yabberwocky
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Yeah, I did a huge double take with the title, thinking it had sold around the same as Pokemon. It's great that digital sales have been strong, I hope the game sells well.
Jawmuncher
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This is mafia 3 all over again
Verendus said they would only start with it if XV was a success!
lol
I would guess they have been working on it for that amount of time, yeah, so maybe in 2-3 years it could be out.
I hope the DLC (the multilayer one) goes down like this:
The story goes, that while trying to take Insomnia, Niflhiem accidentally created millions of alternate universes (other players stories). Noctis and Co (in every universe) find out and are told that the first Noctis that takes Eos's throne as the true king destroys all other universes.
Each separate Noctis and Co decide to use the portals to their advantage and invade the world's of other Noctis's and sabotage the alternate parties stories.
This creates a Dark Souls type invasion mechanic where, when a player invades another player they have to figure out where the party is and destroy them all. Summons are active on demand and this could create massive battles with multiple summons all battling whilst both parties are battling it out on the ground.
The story goes, that while trying to take Insomnia, Niflhiem accidentally created millions of alternate universes (other players stories). Noctis and Co (in every universe) find out and are told that the first Noctis that takes Eos's throne as the true king destroys all other universes.
Each separate Noctis and Co decide to use the portals to their advantage and invade the world's of other Noctis's and sabotage the alternate parties stories.
This creates a Dark Souls type invasion mechanic where, when a player invades another player they have to figure out where the party is and destroy them all. Summons are active on demand and this could create massive battles with multiple summons all battling whilst both parties are battling it out on the ground.
ArkhamFantasy
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Probably 80/20.
It's going to be interesting to see the effects that word of mouth has. XIII had terrible word of mouth, XV has great word of mouth. Its a phenomenal game.
JuanLatino
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he actually said that they already started working on it (by 2014)
But i wasn't really reffering to him. It has more to do with those ITO Rumours (him working on game since the last gen) also kitase mentioning FFXVI in the past
Blackleg-sanji1
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JuanLatino
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Several months is very optimistic
I would think they're still making FF15 content.
FFX remaster was 12 months after the PS4 version. Type-0 HD was 5 months. I think those two are most relevant.
30yearsofhurt
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I would suspect they'd be happy just to get it out and start re-building the name of the FF brand after XIII royally dumped on it.
If it makes a profit then bonus.
If it makes a profit then bonus.
BakedTanooki
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I'm happy for Square Enix and hope this secures more big budget japanese RPGs for the future 
That's a good figure. Hopefully the game has a long tail with good word of mouth, I mean it's got me tempted to pick it up in the future and I have only a small cursory interest in the series.
Hopefully TLG performs well at launch too since it's also a game that's been long awaited.
Hopefully TLG performs well at launch too since it's also a game that's been long awaited.
MatrixMan.EXE
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We'll see what happens, but there was zero evidence of a decline and I've been saying as such for years. Saying Final Fantasy as a brand had diminished and using the sales of two direct sequels to FFXIII and a bunch of spin offs as representative of diluted brand strength never made sense.
FFXV's success (or lack thereof) will show what sort of damage the past 6 years have done to the brand, if any.
FFXV is on track sell around half what FFXIII did, Sun/Moon has so far a weaker start than X/Y by ~10% (and likely stronger digital sales which soften the drop), it's also a bit too early to assume what its LTD sales will be since, unlike Final Fantasy, Pokemon titles sell a big amount of copies after launch.