Banjo-Kazooie
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I guess SE just has them on loan to retailers then
Square Enix: FFXV shipments + digital sales top 5 million worldwide
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Square Enix is ALWAYS working on the next FF game. Remember when 13 was announcement and had a trailer before 12 was even out?
What are you even on about with Pokémon? Wasn't there just a thread that stated Sun/Moon is outperforming XY by 80%?!
MatrixMan.EXE
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On what planet?
Toni
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Physical japan planet
Japan (it's not a planet, but he was talking about Japanese sales).
And for these FF XV numbers I'd wait for the UK, Media Create and NPD threads to see how much is selling in reality. But for now it's a good shipment number
kuroneko0509
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your quoted post refers to japan, while yours is america
MatrixMan.EXE
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Okay, cool. Was going to say, doesn't sound right given what we'd heard about WW.
Huh... all these years and I never knew that a publisher might need to buy back copies that they overship...
CryptiK
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Some do it. I know for a fact Sony does because I worked for a big box store that sold consoles etc, and they would let us swap out games that were not selling for newer stock/games.
BossDarkseid
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I seem to remember reading that Nintendo had to buy Wii U stock back from retailers. I'm also on meds atm so might be delirious.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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I'm really enjoying it so far, hope it works out well for them.
Jawmuncher
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I bought13-2 brand new on PS3 for 0.97 cents.
Still the craziest purchase ever.
Still the craziest purchase ever.
funkystudent
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Very curious how this sells. Not a lot of people are playing it on my friends list but that might just say more about my friends list these days...
But if these are just shipped numbers I wouldn't look to much at them since SE is kind of notorious now for overshipping
But if these are just shipped numbers I wouldn't look to much at them since SE is kind of notorious now for overshipping
Doubtful, they have a lot of big projects coming out soon.
DarkLordMalik
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After trying to ignore FFXIII for years, whenever FFXV faces any success/accompolishment, people sure do love to start talking about FFXIII.
Good News.
Hope Word of Mouth makes it sell even more.
I think he's talking about Japanese sales.
Hope Word of Mouth makes it sell even more.
I think he's talking about Japanese sales.
It varies from countries to countries but some have retailer protection where the distributor is responsible for unsold stock and has to buy it back at a certain point.
Other don't have that, in Japan for example, retailers are entirely responsible for the stock they ordered. If it doesn't sell, it's on them.
If they dont buy back they usually offer some ridiculous rebate that kicks in.
How do you think games get to be 40% off or more within two months of release? Retailers don't take a total bath on that stock as publishers back stop any losses.
It allows pubs to fill the channel in hopes that a game does take off.
This is also one of the many reasons Nintendo underships many products, and overships stupid shit liek a bad mario party.
Final Fantasy versus XIII
ethomaz
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That is the most reasonable way of thinking... FFXIII is last offline installment of franchise... the new one should be compared with it you like or not.
Act like FFXIII never existed or ignore it is dumb IMO.
LordOcidax
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Shipped +Digital sales.... Can mean anything...
Screamapillar
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'Sold' for a publisher means sold to retailers. It has not sold 5 million copies to consumers. Won't hit that for a bit longer, yet.
It's not delayed in China. I got my copy yesterday.
Is that Japan or worldwide?
ethomaz
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DarkLordMalik
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I confused the delay in ratings to delay in release date. It wasn't.
Japan. FFXIII is nowhere near 10M ltd yet, even with cheap PC copies included.
Liquidsnakeiv
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Man that is so awesome, the game is great, and honestly it felt like the future of big budget JRPG's was riding on it
RPGCrazied
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Awesome, FF is a million+ seller for sure, now fix the frame pacing. 
Almost 40 of my friends have it.
Japanmanx3
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Deserved. And great to see.
I have to imagine they know that all things considered they know they aren't going to break even on all 10 years of the game's dev cycle.
Megawarrior
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48 out of my 53 friends was playing it at the same time last time i looked.
But 13 is still the third best selling game in the series behind 10 & 7, that game did not overship in any way. Maybe they overshipped the 360 version.
Perhaps you're thinking of 13-2?
The PS4 version is currently #1 on the Amazon videogames shop. Not necessarily a sign of great sales, but at least that doesn't point to it flopping either. The Uncharted PS4 bundle is second (followed by Sun and Moon in third and fourth). Based on a console being up there, I assume that the chart is at least partially based on revenue.
We'll never know, even if they decide to comment on XV making profit it won't be including Versus. Doesn't really matter anyway, i doubt the money lost from a cancelled game will have much of an affect on what they decide to do for XVI
Final Fantasy XIII was at 5.55M worldwide as of March 31, 2010 (about a month after the US/EU launch). Sales were updated to around 6M at the end of the year, and again to 6.6M by the end of 2012. Games that were massively overshipped never get subsequent shipments, so Final Fantasy XIII couldn't have been too bad, as you said.
I definitely think SE is breathing a massive sigh of relief. It's not going to end up a flop, and critical reception has been overwhelmingly positive. Great to see its #1 on Amazon, too.
Just so people don't have to wonder: In their 09-10 EOFY report, covering April 1 2009 to March 31 2010, the figures for XIII (shipped, iirc) were 5.5 million WW. The game released in Japan on December 17 2009 and NA, EU, AUNZ, etc. on March 9 2010. Now you can compare to your heart's content. And don't ask me how I remember these things.